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WA Liberals leader Libby Mettam and Premier Roger Cook.

Labor, Libs in tug-of-war over $1.8bn hospital plan as election looms

The parties have come to blows over the contentious women’s and babies hospital after the Liberal leader wrote to construction giant Webuild vowing to tear up a deal.

  • Jesinta Burton

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Voices4Freo is expected to formally announce Kate Hulett’s candidacy at a launch in Fremantle on Friday.

Independent to run in Freo as teals move beyond Perth’s western suburbs

Fremantle business owner Kate Hulett is set to challenge Labor Minister Simone McGurk as an independent in the upcoming state election, as the teal movement breaches Perth’s affluent western suburbs.

  • Jesinta Burton
Roger Cook revealed WA Labor would introduce new laws criminalising the circulation of videos showing hooning, if re-elected in March.

WA Labor vows to introduce jail time for ‘posting and boasting’ in hoon crackdown

Hoons could face up to two years’ jail for circulating videos of the activity online under WA Labor’s proposed “post and boast” laws.

  • Jesinta Burton
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
WAtoday year in review politics main picture. Picture: WAtoday

Borers, a ‘businessman’ and 35 kilometres of train line: The political headlines of 2024

From sports broadcasters entering the political fray to tiny beetles destroying the city’s urban tree canopy, we look back at the stories that had us laughing, cringing – and scratching our heads.

  • 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
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What’s on WA politicians’ reading and watch lists this festive season? Pictures: Supplied

The books, podcasts and TV shows keeping WA politicians entertained these holidays

When they’re not reading legislation or listening to parliamentary debate what books, podcasts and movies are WA politicians using to relax?

  • Hamish Hastie
Police at Scarborough Beach.

WA Police equipped with scanners, search powers under tough new anti-knife laws

WA Police will gain sweeping powers to stop and search people for weapons in public from Friday under the state government’s stringent new knife laws, even without a warrant.

  • Jesinta Burton
Pole vault coach Alex Parnov in 2007.

WA Police set up hotline for champion pole vault coach complaints

WA Sport and Recreation Minister David Templeman revealed WAIS was writing to all former athletes who worked with the 65-year-old Russian-born coach to alert them of the hotline.

  • Hamish Hastie
The new DPC general Counsel will be one of the state’s best paid public servants.

The WA premier’s new go-to lawyer will be paid more than him

The Department of Premier and Cabinet’s new in-house lawyer will be one of the highest-paid public servants in the state, eclipsing the salary of the premier himself.

  • Hamish Hastie

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