February
Cook’s message for V’landys: WA doesn’t need the NRL
WA premier says NRL brass must understand rugby league is a relative minnow west of the Nullarbor, and his government won’t bend over backwards to secure a team.
I went jogging with WA’s premier to talk GST and Japanese house music
Triathlons have taught WA Premier Roger Cook a bit about resilience – something he says is required in politics and leadership.
‘See what’s going on up there’: WA premier invites teals to Pilbara
Roger Cook will ask all re-elected teal MPs to tour the mineral-rich Pilbara as he seeks to head off potential environmental reforms from federal Labor.
WA households handed $5000 for batteries in election cash splash
Western Australian households will be provided $5000 battery rebates in the latest election pitch from the cashed-up Labor government.
WA’s coal cliff: Industry warns of looming power shortfall
Western Australia’s transition away from coal will require substantial upgrades to its energy infrastructure, but industry says the state is fast running out of time.
Indigenous rock art report at centre of North West Shelf delay
A rift has opened between the West Australian and Albanese governments over the deferral of a decision to extend Woodside’s huge gas project off the state’s coast.
Labor’s delay on North West Shelf gas decision ‘political’: opposition
The decision had been due by February 28 but will now come by March 31, after the elections in Western Australia.
Labor delays decision on Woodside’s decades-long North West extension
Environment Minister Tanya Plibersek said her department needed more time to assess the proposal, which would add five decades more to the life of the project.
WA workers thriving without unions, says state Labor treasurer
Rita Saffioti’s comments threaten to open a rift between the state and the federal government over the resources sector.
D-Day looms for Woodside’s massive North West Shelf gas project
It’s either crucial to energy security, or a climate disaster in the making. Labor will have to decide whether to let the LNG operation run another 50 years.
Running the rule over four years of total Labor dominance
With a parliamentary majority and a budget bottom line any politician would envy, critics say WA Premier Roger Cook has missed a chance to embark on meaningful reform.
WA election campaign kicks off with personal attacks
Writs have been issued in a state election that will be a crucial test for Anthony Albanese and Peter Dutton possibly just weeks before the federal poll.
States reject ratings warning on debt
NSW Treasurer Daniel Mookhey is returning from a US mission to keep debt costs down, but S&P warns Australian states’ credit ratings are at risk of downgrade.
WA Labor calls for federal support to revive BP green fuel project
The Albanese government must do more to support Western Australia’s fledgling biofuels industry, Premier Roger Cook says.
BP puts its $600m Perth clean fuel refinery plans on ice
The British petroleum giant had expected to decide on the development later this year, but said on Monday that it would delay work on the project.
Homesick FIFO workers earning $190k stir talk of Pilbara unionisation
Sweeping industrial relations changes have inflamed fears among miners that the Pilbara will revert to its recalcitrant past. Unions want a seat at the table in the resource-rich region.
PM’s plan to wedge Libs on childcare, production tax credits
The government has fast-tracked legislation for its signature childcare policy to try and expose the Coalition on the cusp the federal election.
Why the WA Liberal leader thinks her state prefers Dutton to ScoMo
WA Liberal leader Libby Mettam refuses to concede the looming state election is unwinnable, and say the exit of COVID-era premier Mark McGowan has changed the equation.
January
WA Labor premier calls on Dutton to find way forward on nature laws
Roger Cook says the Albanese government must ramp up engagement with the state’s mining giants over a set of divisive environmental reforms.
WA premier lobbies federal Labor to kill EPA, miners cry foul
Roger Cook is pushing his federal counterparts to scrap a renewed move for a federal Environment Protection Agency – ‘If it’s not good for WA, I’m against it’.