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The Victorian Premier has announced a $57m scheme to recruit 200 former police officers back into the force. NewsWire / Luis Enrique Ascui

NEWSPremiumState’s $57m plan to bring back retired cops

One Aussie state has found $57m to bring 200 more retired police officers back into uniform as crime rates soar.

Blair Jackson

The NSW government has confirmed it is the first state to be part of a gun buyback scheme which Anthony Albanese had been pushing to make national in the wake of the Bondi terror attack

NEWSPremium‘Ready to fight’: Big call on state’s gun scheme

NSW Premier Chris Minns has revealed the estimated cost of the state’s gun buyback scheme, which opposition parties have promised to reverse if elected.

Blair Jackson

Mathias Cormann, one of the architects of the current WA GST deal, says he is “stunned” by the recommendations of the Productivity Commission review into the 2018 reforms.

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‘Stunned’ Cormann defends 2018 GST fairness deal

Mathias Cormann, one of the architects of the deal that delivered Western Australia its fair share of the GST, says he is ‘stunned’ that the Productivity Commission wants the agreement ripped up.

Joe Spagnolo

Mathias Cormann: To say I was surprised and disappointed by the Productivity Commission’s interim report into the 2018 GST distribution reforms would be an understatement.

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Cormann: Unwinding GST reforms would take country backwards

Cormann: To say I was surprised and disappointed by the Productivity Commission’s interim report into the 2018 GST distribution reforms would be an understatement.

Mathias Cormann

Prime Minister Anthony Albanese will be the headline act of two fundraisers in Perth, expected to raise hundreds of thousands of dollars for the Labor Party.

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Albanese courts cashed-up West Aussies in six-day blitz

Cashed up West Australians will get exclusive access to Anthony Albanese, Roger Cook and state and federal ministers during a six-day fundraising blitz expected to boost Labor coffers by more than $1m.

Joe Spagnolo

Secret Harbour candidate Luke Herdegen with Rod Caddies, State Leader of One Nation.

State PoliticsPremium‘Labor are worried’: One Nation boast by-election confidence

One Nation is declaring it has the Cook Government on the back foot, claiming Labor is exhibiting clear signs of political anxiety as the minor party targets a historic by-election victory in Secret Harbour.

Caitlin Vinci

Georgia Tree pictured at her Secret Harbour campaign launch with WA Premier Roger Cook on Saturday.

State PoliticsPremium‘Tough’ fight to save once safe seat officially begins

Labor’s Secret Harbour candidate Georgia Tree has officially launched her by-election bid on Saturday as the party fights to hold onto a once safe Labor seat. 

Caitlin Vinci

Belinda Mackey, secretary of the Madora Bay Community Association.

WA NewsPremiumWhy Secret Harbour ‘mortgage belt’ holds by-election key

The Secret Harbour electorate is home to many young, working ‘mortgage belt’ families who are bearing the brunt of the cost of living crisis.

Rhianna Mitchell

Secret Harbour Labour candidate Georgia Tree.

State PoliticsPremium‘Mixed bag’: Tree on Albanese Secret Harbour visit pre-poll

Labor’s Secret Harbour candidate Georgia Tree has admitted voters have mixed feelings of Anthony Albanese as she refused to say whether she would like to see the Prime Minister on the campaign trail.

Oliver Lane

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HEALTHPremiumChild suffers brain damage after pet zoo visit

A child has been left with permanent brain damage and may require a kidney transplant, after contracting a dangerous bacterial infection after visiting a petting zoo.

Jackson Robb

WA’s worst paedophile Dennis McKenna.

State PoliticsPremiumVictim shaking as Premier quizzed on paedophile’s release

A victim of WA’s worst paedophile Dennis McKenna was left shaking while watching on as Premier Roger Cook was grilled on the Department of Public Prosecutions’ move not to oppose the criminal’s release.

Oliver Lane

Roger Cook has unleashed on the ‘East Coast clowns’ behind a blistering report that has fuelled calls for WA’s ‘perverse’ GST deal to be overhauled. 

State politicsPremium‘Angry’ Cook unleashes on East Coast GST ‘clowns’

Roger Cook has unleashed on the ‘East Coast clowns’ behind a blistering report that has fuelled calls for WA’s ‘perverse’ GST deal to be overhauled. 

Jessica Page and Oliver Lane

Fire alarm causes chaos at GST press conference.

State PoliticsVideoPremiumFire alarm triggers evacuation at Cook’s press conference

Premier Roger Cook and his Deputy Rita Saffioti were forced to evacuate from a press conference defending the current GST deal as a fire alarm blared.

Oliver Lane

Prime Minister Anthony Albanese.

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PM can’t have it both ways on GST decision

Until the PM defines what a ‘fair share’ for WA means, his current guarantee is worth diddly and squat. 

Jessica Page

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The Productivity Commission is set to release an interim report into the Morrison-era GST deal.

GSTVideoEverything you need to know about the GST

WA’s deal on the Goods and Services Tax is coming under review — and with it the threat of the State losing its ‘fair share’. Here’s all you need to know about it.

Jessica Page

Dr Angela Jackson is a commissioner on the Productivity Commission (AAP Image/Lukas Coch) NO ARCHIVING

EconomyPremiumCommission denies bias as it targets WA’s GST deal

The Productivity Commission denies its GST reform report was biased against WA, saying the State’s concerns about plummeting payments during the mining boom were ‘legitimate’. 

Matt Mckenzie

Woodside Chairman Michael Chaney (left) and Woodside incoming chairman Richard Goyder.

State PoliticsPremiumBusiness leaders sound alarm over broken WA GST promises

Some of Perth’s most prominent business leaders have put the onus squarely on Anthony Albanese and warned his reputation - and votes - are on the line, if Federal Labor blinks over the GST. 

Jessica Page and Sean Smith

Premier Roger Cook.

State PoliticsPremiumWA in GST fight for life as Cook warns State could lose $6b

Roger Cook and Rita Saffioti have declared they’re ready to rumble over the GST, as business leaders put Anthony Albanese squarely in the frame of a cross-border battle worth $6 billion to WA’s bottom line.

Jessica Page and Caitlyn Rintoul

Angus Taylor is not named in the probe and is not accused of any wrongdoing. NewsWire / Martin Ollman

LIVEPremiumClaim about Angus ICAC ‘shakedown’

A key figure in an anti-corruption inquiry has explained why he planned to “shake down” Angus Taylor for $10,000.

Nathan Schmidt

Joann Wilkie was appointed WA's under-treasurer in June 2025

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Treasury official leaves role but keeps $559k salary

A senior public servant will keep her $559,302 annual salary for five years despite quitting as under-Treasurer, it can be revealed.

Jessica Page

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NewsPremiumState’s sweeping changes in crime crackdown

The sweeping changes come a week after a beloved shopkeeper was allegedly bashed to death by a group of youths accused of shoplifting.

Alexandra Feiam

An inspection of Roebourne Regional Prison in WA’s Pilbara has revealed women are sleeping on the floor as a result of overcrowding that is plaguing the State’s prisons. 

state politicsPremiumPrison improvement ‘fragile’ as inmates sleep on the floor

An inspection of Roebourne Regional Prison in WA’s Pilbara has revealed women are sleeping on the floor as a result of overcrowding that is plaguing the State’s prisons. 

Jessica Page

Small businesses spanning the Secret Harbour electorate say they’re feeling the pinch and feeling forgotten as the by-election looms.

State PoliticsPremiumSecret Harbour local businesses tell all before poll

Small businesses spanning the Secret Harbour electorate say they’re feeling the pinch and feeling forgotten as the by-election looms.

Oliver Lane

Former One Nation candidate Parminder Singh says gay people have a mental illness in an interview posted online.

State PoliticsPremiumWA One Nation candidate says being gay is a ‘mental illness’

WA One Nation candidate Parminder Singh has sparked outrage after describing being gay as ‘a mental illness’ during an appearance on a popular Australian YouTuber’s channel this week.

Caitlin Vinci