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Several states want more migrant tradespeople to help address the housing crisis.

Perth’s plan to raid east coast for tradies with lure of $10,000 cash

The West Australian government is considering offering a one-off payment to tradespeople to move from interstate to build more homes.

  • Tom Rabe

October

WA Premier Roger Cook, himself a former Rugby player, is a supporter of an NRL expansion team based in Perth. Negotiations for a cash injection from the WA government are ongoing.

WA knocks back initial NRL funding request

The WA government has set up a taskforce to work directly with the NRL on brokering a deal for an 18th rugby league club.

  • Tom Rabe and Zoe Samios
Woodside chief executive Meg O’Neill says WA’s decision to hand responsibility for policing greenhouse emissions to the Commonwealth is “eminently sensible”.

Woodside boss urges states to join WA in ending emissions regulation

State governments should consider leaving the policing of greenhouse emissions to Canberra, Meg O’Neill says.

  • Tom Rabe and Angela Macdonald-Smith
WA Premier Roger Cook argues the state’s gas exports are essential for its trading partners to reduce their emissions.

WA to leave greenhouse gas policing to Canberra

Western Australia will hand responsibility of policing greenhouse gas emissions of major projects to the federal government, using new constitutional legal advice to justify the move.

  • Tom Rabe

August

North Asian buyers underpin Australia’s gas industry

Inquiry leaves door ajar for WA gas exports

Onshore gas producers should be allowed to export to international buyers if the Western Australian industry can address a major looming domestic shortfall.

  • Tom Rabe
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July

WA Premier Roger Cook.

WA Premier stands by CFMEU amid workplace law shake-up

Western Australian Premier Roger Cook has defended a decision to keep his party aligned with the state branch of the CFMEU.

  • Tom Rabe
Property Council WA Executive Director Nicola Brischetto and Founding Director of OP Properties Luke Parker.

Home building slowdown fuels Perth’s rocketing price rises

Dwindling housing completions have helped fuel major increases in Perth’s property prices as developers warn most projects are not viable because of rising costs.

  • Tom Rabe
WA Premier Roger Cook.

Construction industry ‘much more respectful’ in WA

The Western Australian Labor government is unlikely to follow moves by eastern states to impose compulsory requirements for union agreements.

  • Tom Rabe
About 40 pilot boat operators and vessel traffic service officers at Fremantle have threatened to take industrial action next week.

‘The port would stop’: Fremantle workers threaten to walk off job

Western Australia’s largest container port could grind to a halt next week if a small group of key staff stop work over a pay dispute.

  • Tom Rabe

June

Western Australia will receive thousands more skilled migrants this financial year under a deal struck between the state and federal government.

‘Unique position’ secures WA thousands more skilled migrants

Perth property prices have soared amid unprecedented migration. Now WA Premier Roger Cook has landed a promise of thousands more migrants to build more homes.

  • Tom Rabe
Perth builder Jason Janssen says state government stimulus overheated the construction market for years.

‘Extinction event’: WA builders blame government for overheating market

A $480 million government housing grant scheme has been blamed by West Australian builders for overheating the market and contributing to insolvencies.

  • Tom Rabe
Stuart Nicholls is the chief executive of Strike Energy.

Strike unveils gas plant play, urges WA to green-light onshore exports

Strike Energy has announced a plan to build and operate a $160 million gas plant north of Perth.

  • Tom Rabe

May

WA Premier Roger Cook.

Cook says magnetite will make WA the ‘California of Australia’

WA’s future in resources wasn’t just linked to battery minerals, but also to a different variety of iron ore largely overlooked by our mining industry: magnetite.

  • Tom Rabe
Western Australia’s Treasurer and deputy Premier Rita Saffioti has blamed record migration for a surge in government spending.

‘Unprecedented’ migration blamed for jump in WA spending

Treasurer says the state government had been forced to spend more on education, housing and healthcare after 95,000 people moved to WA last year.

  • Tom Rabe
WA budget winners/losers

WA Budget Winners and Losers

Households and prospective home buyers are expected to benefit from new spending measures, while there is no additional funding for farmers, and still no changes to the state’s payroll tax system.

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  • Tom Rabe and Brad Thompson
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WA infrastructure spending goes ‘up another gear’

Premier Roger Cook has vowed to shift infrastructure spending “up another gear” as the state splashed billions on cost-of-living and housing, to absorb the record 95,000 people who moved west last year.

  • Tom Rabe
Prime Minister Anthony Albanese with WA Premier Roger Cook in Perth on Wednesday.

Outer Perth ‘pain seats’ at risk as Albanese cocks ear to west

Federal Labor is bleeding votes in Western Australia that could cost it several key seats, pollsters warn.

  • Tom Rabe
Amid a surge in Perth property prices, the WA government will give owners of vacant homes $5000 if they make them available for long-term renters.

Landlords offered $5000 lure for housing fix

Amid a surge in Perth property prices, the WA government will give owners of vacant homes $5000 if they make them available for long-term renters.

  • Tom Rabe
WA Police Commissioner Col Blanch, flanked by WA Police Minister Paul Papalia and WA Premier Roger Cook during a press conference on Sunday morning.

Minister was warned about radicalised teen before police shooting

A 16-year-old school boy shot dead by police in Perth over the weekend after a stabbing incident was part of a state-run deradicalisation program.

  • Tom Rabe
Ahead of handing down her first budget on Thursday, Rita Saffioti says becoming the WA Treasurer feels like stepping into an F1 car.

Fast and unpopular: Why running WA economy’s like driving for Red Bull

Treasurer Rita Saffioti says Western Australia is the Red Bull Formula 1 team of the states, as she prepares to hand down her first budget.

  • Tom Rabe

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