Politics
Western Australia
Spend big or pay down debt? How WA will spend its $4.7b GST windfall
Mark McGowan will use $1.7 billion of its $4.7 billion GST windfall to reduce debt. How do you think the WA Government should spend our GST revenue?
- by Nathan Hondros
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GST
Fair deal for WA as GST plan sails through federal parliament
Changes to GST distribution, including a new floor of 75 cents, have cleared federal parliament after a long fight led by West Australia to get a fairer deal.
- by Nathan Hondros
Export trade
McGowan puts live exporters on notice, would not be 'heartbroken' if industry gone
Premier Mark McGowan has put the state's live animal export trade on notice and agreed he wouldn't be heartbroken if the industry disappeared.
- by Nathan Hondros
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Mike Nahan
Hotel lobbyists in stoush with Liberals after public rebuke at awards night
Mike Nahan has brushed aside a public rebuke from the AHA boss Bradley Woods over criticism of Labor's performance in the tourism portfolio.
- by Nathan Hondros
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Bill Shorten
'You can't win the west from the east': Bill Shorten on the WA hustings, again
If luck goes his way, Bill Shorten could be well and truly Prime Minister by this time next year. But has the Labor party leader done enough to win in the west?
- by Nathan Hondros
Euthanasia
McCusker drafted to write WA government's voluntary assisted dying law
Former WA Governor Malcolm McCusker QC will head a panel of experts who will write the McGowan Government's new voluntary assisted dying laws.
- by Nathan Hondros
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Gender
Weekend Washup: 'Jesus had two dads' and other adventures in parliamentary theology
The culture wars make it to WA's parliament as MPs debate a law to make it easier to for married people to swap genders on their birth certificates.
- by Nathan Hondros
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Election
Auditor General finds 'shortcomings' in Labor's 'Local Jobs' election scheme, Premier labels inquiry 'witch hunt'
An audit has found "shortcomings" in Labor's 'Local Projects, Local jobs' grants scheme, meanwhile the Premier has labelled an inquiry into it a "witch hunt".
- by Nathan Hondros
Security
'A nest of spies': McGowan doubles down on defence of Chinese tech contracts
Premier Mark McGowan has redoubled his defence of state government contracts with a controversial Chinese telecommunications company.
- by Nathan Hondros
Election
Government loses fight to thwart 'Local Jobs' campaign fund inquiry
The McGowan Government faces a year-long parliamentary inquiry into its 'Local Projects, Local Jobs' grant scheme after losing a vote in the state's upper house yesterday.
- by Nathan Hondros
Opinion
Chinese influence
Sleepers wake: It's time for our political leaders to heed China warning bells
"The warning signs are going off like firecrackers – the threats, the diplomatic posturing, the aggressive territorial claims, the mass incarceration of ethnic and religious minorities"
- by Nathan Hondros