West Australian Treasurer Ben Wyatt at Parliament House in Pert, May 31, 2017. photo by Trevor Collens. .

WA budget: BHP, Rio hit in tax grab

The nation's biggest miners BHP and Rio Tinto are being targeted as part of a near $1 billion corporate tax grab, in the first Labor budget for Western Australia in more than nine years, delivered by Treasurer Ben Wyatt.

Postal vote a relief for PM

Malcolm Turnbull is mightily relieved now the High Court has quickly knocked out legal challenges to the postal survey on same sex marriage....

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Perth property downturn to end

Figures contained in the McGowan government's maiden budget on Thursday show a rebound in Perth's median house price next year.