The deputy State coroner has urgently called on the Cook Government to fund more staff and mental health services at Hakea Prison, labelling the remand facility at ‘crisis point’.
Rebecca Le May
Former prime minister John Howard has slammed Donald Trump, saying he is “not compatible” with democracy while also taking a shot at Democratic nominee Kamala Harris.
Blair Jackson
Footage circulating on social media also showed other students joining in, chanting: ‘F..k the ALP. Four, five, six, f..k the rich!’
Caitlyn Rintoul
A planned walkout for 24-hours by nurses and midwives across one Australian state has been slammed by the government as “disappointing”.
Nathan Schmidt
A year ago, one Australian Premier said the ‘status quo is not an option’ as he unveiled a major housing plan. Since then rents are up 13 per cent.
A transport union has pulled back its threat to strike in Sydney this weekend.
Labor’s road safety summit has been branded an ineffective ‘talkfest’ in the wake of another teenager killed behind the wheel of a car on WA roads.
Dylan Caporn
Wholesale electricity prices have more than doubled since 2021, adding to cost of living pressures and sparking calls for the transformation of WA’s south-west grid to be ‘urgently’ fast-tracked.
Jessica Page
One Australian state is rolling out incredible new tech that could save lives ahead of a dangerous summer.
Steve Zemek
It comes after The West revealed that the State Government had to intervene in negotiations between the club and the council to assist in sealing a deal between the pair.
The Prime Minister has batted away Chris Ellison’s comments about Federal Labor’s controversial reforms, as the Opposition seizes an opportunity to highlight the country’s growing workforce woes.
Adrian Rauso
The $3.8 billion project by Golden Sedayu will see 4500 dwellings, hotels and restaurants built between the Swan River and Belmont Racecourse, transforming what has been a long-neglected part of Perth.
Jessica Evensen
A modest loosening of export rules for WA’s onshore gas producers likely won’t slow the closure of LNG trains in Karratha, an industry expert says.
Matt Mckenzie & Simone Grogan
Housing Minister John Carey has put Perth’s local councils on notice, telling them to ‘get your houses in order’ and step up infill efforts despite a ‘welcome’ increase in rental vacancies.
‘This is not how we should play politics in this in this country.’
Displays of nazi symbols such as the swastika and performing the nazi salute will carry jail time after new laws passed Parliament yesterday..
Under the changes, new or expanding onshore projects will be required to reserve 80 per cent of gas produced for WA’s domestic market.
Agriculture Minister Jackie Jarvis will hold talks with her new Federal counterpart Julie Collins today, as WA sheep producers continue to push for more compensation ahead of a looming live export ban.
WA Premier Roger Cook has used parliamentary privilege to slam billionaire mining magnate Clive Palmer as ‘greedy’ for launching further ‘staggering’ and ‘audacious’ legal attacks.
The new data in the Department’s annual report, released in Parliament, show the violence teachers and principals face across WA.
Abolishing stamp duty in favour of land tax is ‘far too difficult’, Treasurer Rita Saffioti believes but maintains the Government is keeping all options open to reduce housing pressures in WA.
Dylan Caporn and Caitlyn Rintoul
Mandurah mayor Rhys Williams will nominate for Labor preselection in the safe seat vacated by long-term MP David Templeman.
Treasurer Rita Saffioti is not ruling out lowering stamp duty after the State Government reaped more than half a billion dollars extra from the tax last financial year.
Aussies scammed out of millions of dollars have revealed the one change they want and the cruel detail at the heart of their pursuits for relief from their banks.
Blake Antrobus
