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Fortescue’s Cloudbreak iron ore processing facility in the Pilbara region of WA.

Iron ore to the rescue again as final budget document highlights WA’s riches

The enormous budget boost was revealed in WA Treasury’s financial projection statement ahead of the March 8 election.

  • Hamish Hastie

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Cost blowouts on infrastructure, such as the Parramatta light rail, have driven state budgets into the red.

States facing credit downgrades due to ‘lax fiscal discipline’

The states have been warned their credit ratings could be sliced due to their inability to control spending.

  • Shane Wright
The Murdoch medihotel was built by Aegis Health but will be run by the South Metro Health Service.

The Murdoch medihotel was meant to cost WA taxpayers $55 million. It’s nearly double that

The midyear budget review released before Christmas shows the cost to run the now 80-bed facility had blown out to $98.6 million.

  • Hamish Hastie
WA Treasurer and Deputy Premier Rita Saffioti at the mid-year budget review.

Iron ore drives even bigger surplus in WA, but not everyone is feeling the love

Monday’s mid-year budget update has seen WA’s projected operating surplus for this financial year increase by $493 million to $3.1 billion.

  • Hamish Hastie
South Australia has topped the ladder.

The surprise state topping Australia’s economic ladder

It’s not WA, although the mining state is fast gaining on top spot, leading on relative population growth and home lending metrics.

  • Jacob Shteyman and Abe Maddison
The cost of remediation and redevelopment at the East Perth Power station site has jumped again.

Multimillion-dollar plans vanish from WA budget as East Perth power station site costs balloon

The $39.5 million set aside for Main Roads WA to build the footbridge across East Parade has vanished from the budget papers, with just $2.4 million spent on the project to date.

  • Hamish Hastie
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The money is spent on advertising in regional papers.

WA government spends $2 million to prop up ailing regional newspapers

The scheme was only made public after the May WA budget included a line item detailing a further $1 million for “phase two” over the 2024-25 financial year.

  • Hamish Hastie
A move to hire in-house counsel has angered the opposition.

Opposition wary of WA government splashing cash on in-house lawyers

The Department of Premier and Cabinet will spend $6 million over the next four years to establish a four-person in-house legal team.

  • Hamish Hastie
Western Australia’s Treasurer and deputy Premier Rita Saffioti in her office at Dumas House in Perth. 02/05/2024. Photo:Trevor Collens AFR

‘We’re giving far more than we’re getting’: WA fires warning shot over GST blowout

WA Treasurer Rita Saffioti reckons critics of the current GST should “read the other parts of the budget where WA revenues are propping up” much of the federal government’s revenue.

  • Hamish Hastie
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What’s in the federal budget for WA? Your cheat sheet

The federal budget includes major additional funding to cover the enormous cost blowouts that have dragged on the Metronet budget in the past year.

  • Hamish Hastie

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