LIVE UPDATES: US President Donald Trump has announced the US has blown a hole in an Iranian-flagged shipped that attempted to defy his blockade, with a new warning issued.
Max Corstorphan
Business groups and social advocates have put forward vastly different visions of what the federal government's next budget should look like.
Zac de Silva
The Coalition will create super-fast-track environmental assessments for ‘national interest projects’ and unwind changes that bar oil and gas projects from using more streamlined processes, The West can reveal.
Katina Curtis
A group of leading community organisations want a tax shake-up, arguing changes to gas, housing and mining could raise billions to help tackle the cost-of-living crisis.
Ria Pandey
Three national funding streams will be fast-tracked in a bid to get capital moving faster to Australian businesses and strengthen critical supply chains, as the status of the Strait of Hormuz remains volatile.
Bethany Hiatt
One Nation’s primary vote has dropped slightly for the second time in two months, a new poll has found.
Liam Beatty
The West Australian can reveal Navy Chief Vice Admiral Mark Hammond is making his first overseas trip since being announced for the military’s top job, amid international efforts to open the Strait of Hormuz.
Andrew Greene
Australians deserve straight talk on what is expected of us, as our incoming Defence Chief touches down in the US to discuss potential Middle East deployments alongside the AUKUS nuclear submarine project.
Roger Cook has not ruled out further targeted relief measures in this year’s State Budget to help ease rising cost-of-living pressures for West Australian households.
If you can find the cash to pour at least $100 million into a new rugby league side for WA, then surely you can find $30m to fix the embarrassment that is the Cottesloe foreshore.
JOE SPAGNOLO
A senior opposition frontbencher has been grilled on a major detail in the Coalition’s controversial migrant plan.
Liberal challenger Azam Dabbagh has conceded a heated by-election despite thousands of votes still to be counted, handing Labor a win.
Alexander Britton
War hero Ben Roberts-Smith has made his first public statement since being charged with five counts of alleged war crimes, emphatically denying the allegations against him.
Charlton Hart
New data has revealed a surprising detail about Australia’s fuel spending, as the Iran war continues to rage and a key shipping lane remains blocked.
Kate Stephenson
Australia has made a big claim about Donald Trump’s call for support in the Strait of Hormuz, after Iran reimposed restrictions on the vital shipping waterway.
Global fuel supply uncertainty has intensified after the Strait of Hormuz shut again, with Richard Marles warning tensions could disrupt energy markets.
Madeline Cove
More than 600 Indigenous people have died in custody in the 35 years since a royal commission's landmark report, with many of its recommendations ignored.
Lloyd Jones
The State Government has announced a major update to free public transport across WA, as part of a $70.1 million Budget measure.
Joe Spagnolo
Tasmania is the sole state without an electorate named after an Aboriginal person or place but many are hoping to change that.
Ben McKay
The WA Police Union is turning into an industrial farce, icing its under-investigation president weeks after a decision to keep him in the job triggered uproar from members.
Ben Harvey
Australian motorists are caught between the US and Iran as the Islamic republic backflips on a promise to reopen a critical shipping route.
Zac de Silva, Allanah Sciberras and John Kidman
Pope Leo says his preaching reflects the Gospel message of peace and isn't aimed at the US president, suggesting there has been an inaccurate media "narrative".
Staff Writers
Only one block of residential block of land is listed for sale in greater Perth by the State Government’s land agency despite a state-wide housing crisis.
Kim Macdonald
Opposition leader Angus Taylor says he doesn’t believe West Australians will be turned off by a migration policy Paul Keating has labelled as racist.
