Private hospitals are set to take public patients as part of an attempt to reduce WA’s growing elective surgery waitlist, which has blown out to more than 33,000 people.
Peter Law
Women’s Interests Minister Simone McGurk described the Roe v Wade determination as ‘deeply concerning and frightening’, setting women’s rights back decades.
Rebecca Le May
The Victorian government revealed who the new deputy premier is after four cabinet ministers stood down this week.
Caroline Schelle
Mark McGowan faces the most disruptive public sector strike action over wages in years, starting with hospital workers walking out on the job next month.
Peter Law and Josh Zimmerman
A mayor is in hot water after crashing her car following ‘several glasses of wine’ on the day the council released its budget.
Owen Leonard
The deputy chair of WA’s landmark parliamentary inquiry into sexual assault and harassment in the FIFO industry says there are no easy answers on how to fix the “scary” culture and systemic issues it unearthed.
Adrian Lowe
The minister in charge of WA’s mining industry has been criticised for being absent when an explosive report on sexual assault and harassment in the FIFO workforce was handed down in Parliament.
Danielle Le Messurier
The State School Teachers Union of WA has signed off on a 2.75 per cent pay rise, but the union president said “it would be a mistake to say that teachers are happy with the wage component” of the agreement.
Josh Zimmerman
Planning Minister Rita Saffioti and Perth Lord Mayor Basil Zempilas are again at loggerheads, this time over plans to relocate a homeless drop-in centre in Northbridge.
The identity of a high-profile Twitter user known as PRGuy17 has finally been revealed in a video posted to YouTube.
Holly Hales
Four of WA’s biggest COVID-19 testing clinics are set to close and staff sent elsewhere, WA Health has revealed.
Peta Rasdien
Every second of Qantas’ first nonstop flight from Perth to Rome, set to take off tonight, will be monitored by a high tech team in Sydney.
Geoffrey Thomas
Qantas will trim cut back on domestic flights and increase the price of airfares in response to skyrocketing fuel costs.
Victoria’s Opposition Leader has taken aim at Daniel Andrews’ government after four top ministers resigned within 15 minutes.
A suspended regional MP faces a lengthy court delay after being charged with indecently assaulting a teenager and sexually assaulting a man.
Adelaide Lang
Mining giant Rio Tinto has committed to spending $400 million over two years on security upgrades to make its camps and villages in the Pilbara safer for women.
Qantas boss Alan Joyce has lauded Premier Mark McGowan as ‘the best politician in the country at the moment’ as the pair flagged plans to further grow the number of international flights out of Perth.
Premier Mark McGowan has flagged a potential use for the untouched quarantine facility sitting unused in Perth’s east.
Briana Fiore and Ben O’Shea
WA has recorded a slight dip in COVID cases overnight as the State’s slow rollback of restrictions is blamed for stunting Perth’s liveability.
Briana Fiore
Four of Daniel Andrews’ most senior colleagues have announced they’re leaving politics and will leave the cabinet immediately.
A council’s plan to lower the speed limit on all local roads to 40km/h has been met with a fiery response from residents.
Hamish Spence
Liberal Senator Linda Reynolds warns her own party risks ‘electoral abyss’ and condemning WA to a ‘one-party State’ if it fails to adopt meaningful reform to weaken the influence of powerbrokers.
The once envied destination of Perth has plummeted 26 spots on the global liveability ladder, but Premier Mark McGowan has stood by his City.
A former kitchen worker at a Pilbara iron ore mine has bravely spoken out about an alleged rape on-site, inspired to come forward by shocking stories that have emerged on a watershed day for the industry.
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