The road is set to be closed for five weeks.
Sofia Fimognari
The Cook Labor Government has boosted the Australind train services by adding two more trains, each with three cars after an $80 million investment.
A row has erupted over a Kimberley Aboriginal group’s five-figure donation to WA Labor, with the Liberal Party questioning whether it amounted to a ‘siphoning’ of taxpayer funds.
Jessica Page
Labor has seized on new data which shows childcare subsidies have saved Australian families $2768 as proof its policies are providing cost of living relief as it moves towards its goal of universal child care.
Bethany Hiatt
Labor is planning to reverse the ‘reckless’ privatisation of WA’s freight rail network two decades ago, but is refusing to reveal how much it is willing to pay for it.
Offenders between the ages of five and nine who currently slip through the cracks of the justice system will be targeted in a trial program under a re-elected Labor Government.
Jessica Moroney
As well intentioned as the Police Minister’s proposal may be, the concept of trying a serious, defended, offence within 28 days is simply impractical.
Tom Percy
One of Perth’s oldest community football clubs has missed out on funding to spare teenage girls from having to share changerooms, as Roger Cook pledged $30 million towards women’s sport elsewhere.
Jessica Page and Oliver Lane
The number of refuge units for women and children escaping domestic violence in the Great Southern is set to quadruple under a re-elected Labor government says the minister for prevention of domestic violence.
Melissa Sheil
There’s a lot riding on interest rates. Including, potentially, the fate of the Albanese Government.
Editorial
WA taxpayers will spend almost $1 million for the erection of a new welcome sign on the State’s border with South Australia - who won’t pay a cent for the new installation.
Dylan Caporn
Greens MLC Brad Pettitt called the ‘huge’ sums donated to the major parties ‘disturbing’.
State prosecutor Jarrad Goold will run for Labor in Canning, taking on Liberal frontbencher Andrew Hastie in next year’s Federal election.
Katina Curtis
Anthony Albanese is poised to make a bold announcement on childcare policy to kick off Labor’s re-election campaign built around universal access and enabling more parents to work.
It is deeply concerning that the rush of legislation depended on cutting a deal with the extremist Greens.
Anthony Albanese personally intervened to kill off a deal his environment minister, Tanya Plibersek, was trying to make with the Greens over a proposed Federal EPA. Here’s what went down behind the scenes.
Dan Jervis-Bardy
Former Labor leader Bill Shorten has called for a new era of political unity to tackle the nation’s ‘unfinished business’ on tax reform and other major issues in his parting message to Federal Parliament.
Dan Jervis-Bardy and Katina Curtis
The Albanese Government’s energy plan could cost five times what Labor has promised, new independent research commissioned by the Coalition has claimed.
Jake Dietsch
Labor has reopened its gun buyback for dealers and individual owners, despite rejecting previous calls to keep offering payments during the first round.
Minority government may be beckoning but a Labor elder warns his party must not do deals with the Greens.
Anthony Albanese’s relationship with Qantas is under the microscope amid claims he contacted former chief Alan Joyce for seat upgrades and suggestions he failed to declare those given to his former wife.
Ellen Ransley and Katina Curtis
Queensland has voted out a ‘very bad Labor government’, Peter Dutton has declared, as he called on Australians to now give the Albanese Government the boot.
A veteran Labor figure has blasted Anthony Albanese’s leadership, accusing the Government of losing touch with its traditional working class base and instead chasing after inner-city elites.
The Albanese Government is planning to run a negative campaign against Peter Dutton’s ‘unlikeability’ and ‘hard man’ image as they switch up campaign tactics ahead of the election.
