Union hails hiring curb
ANDREW BURRELLThe WA teachers’ union wants more changes to the independent public schools system.
‘Add pokies in GST carve-up’
ANDREW BURRELLAndrew “Twiggy” Forrest has attacked the gambling industry for being like “Dracula sucking blood out of the community”.
Depravity of a premier’s son
ANDREW BURRELLThe girl was just 13 when she met 40-year-old private school alumnus Kym Dowding on the dusty streets of Roebourne.
Milo boycott ‘a little silly’
ANDREW BURRELLA move to ban right-wing provocateur Milo Yiannopoulos from government buildings on his Australian tour is “laughable”.
PM’s fate ‘rests on GST fix’
ANDREW BURRELLKerry Stokes says Malcolm Turnbull knows his political future will depend on reforming the ‘horrible’ GST system.
exclusiveLibs keep lid on poll analysis
ANDREW BURRELLLiberals have restricted access to analysis of the WA election disaster, fearing the media will get hold of it.
Libs wave through $435m tax grab
ANDREW BURRELLLiberal leader Mike Nahan said his party would not block Labor’s $435m payroll tax hike.
Big employers hit in tax grab
Andrew BurrellSome of the nation’s biggest employers will be hit with an extra $435m in payroll taxes in Western Australia.
Customers have power in price war
ANDREW BURRELLHundreds of thousands of West Australian consumers are benefiting from an unprecedented price war among gas retailers.
Nahan buries ALP gold grab
ANDREW BURRELLThe West Australian Labor government has seen its contentious plan to slug gold miners killed off.
WA budgetLibs vote to kill off gold slug
ANDREW BURRELLThe WA Labor government’s contentious plan to slug gold miners with an additional $400 million in royalties is dead.
State GST backlash headache
ANDREW BURRELL JOE KELLYThe states are set for a brawl over the GST carve-up after the Productivity Commission recommended major changes.
Maverick mayor expelled by Labor
ANDREW BURRELLAn outspoken Pilbara mayor who has campaigned for the introduction of the cashless welfare card has been expelled by Labor.
Royalty rise ‘puts mine at risk’
ANDREW BURRELLNewcrest chief Sandeep Biswas says a plan to increase gold royalties in WA has put the company’s Telfer mine at risk.
Child molester jailed 10 years
ANDREW BURRELLPerth father Vincenzo Mule, 54 sentenced for luring two small children from a childcare centre and sexually assaulting them.
exclusiveLibs may back gold royalty rise
ANDREW BURRELLWA Liberal leader Mike Nahan says it is up to the industry to make the case against the proposed royalty rise.
Gold royalty rise ‘devastating’
ANDREW BURRELLAlmost 3000 jobs would be lost if the West Australian government increased goldmining royalties, a lobby group says.
North Korea crisis‘Keep trying over North Korea’
Andrew BurrellJulie Bishop defends Rex Tillerson’s efforts over North Korea after Donald Trump undercuts him on Twitter.
Inside StoryThe madam who knew too much
ANDREW BURRELLAlmost everything about the death of brothel owner Shirley Finn has been the subject of rumour, innuendo and lies for 42 years.
Abbott warned to lay off PM
ANDREW BURRELLTony Abbott has been privately warned that he has ‘overstepped the mark’ in recent months with damaging comments.
GST rebel rousers a western force
ANDREW BURRELLA group of wealthy Perth business people is planning a new political party to fight for an overhaul of the GST system.
For God and country
Andrew BurrellHe’s been pilloried for his ‘natural law’ argument against gay marriage. But Andrew Hastie isn’t a man to be messed with.
‘Detective was in madam’s car’
ANDREW BURRELLPolice ignored evidence of ‘prominent detective’ sitting in brothel madam’s car before she was shot, inquest told.
Man’s evidence ‘ignored by cops’
ANDREW BURRELLCourt told of night witness believed he saw a police officer at the scene of Shirley Finn’s murder on the night she died.
Top cop’s threat to murder madam
ANDREW BURRELLBrothel madam Shirley Finn told deputy police commissioner Owen Leitch: “If I go down so will you with your boys.”
Neddy Smith omission ‘puzzling’
ANDREW BURRELLA coroner has questioned why police have failed for 42 years to pursue Arthur “Neddy” Smith over the Shirley Finn murder.
exclusiveSame-sex safeguards not for all
ANDREW BURRELLThe bill to legalise same-sex marriage won’t give safeguards to business owners who won’t provide services to gay weddings.
Gillard ex’s murder link
ANDREW BURRELLBruce Wilson has been linked to the 40-year-old murder mystery surrounding Perth brothel madam Shirley Finn.
Gillard’s ex linked to murder
ANDREW BURRELLJulia Gillard’s ex-boyfriend, former union boss Bruce Wilson, has been sensationally linked to an unsolved murder.
Lover ‘knows more’: inquest
ANDREW BURRELLThe daughter of murdered brothel keeper Shirley Finn claims her mother’s lesbian lover “knows more than she is saying”.
