‘I think they got the message’: Cook backs in watered-down environment laws after PM’s visit
WA Premier Roger Cook has welcomed news the federal government is willing to scale back stalled environment reforms which have drawn the ire of the state’s miners.
- by Jesinta Burton
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Reynolds’ lawyer throws spotlight on Higgins, Sharaz texts amid political furore
Reynolds’ lawyer Martin Bennett used the final day of his closing address on Wednesday to take the WA Supreme Court through a series of exchanges between Higgins and her now-husband David Sharaz.
- by Jesinta Burton
Man becomes second person to die in Perth prison custody in less than a week
A man has died at Hakea Prison in Perth’s south-east, becoming the second person to die in custody in Western Australia in less than a week.
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Higgins, Reynolds’ lawyers in tug-of-war over ‘conspiracy’ claim amid shock Credlin connection
Linda Reynolds made a shock appearance just before 11am, sitting in the front row of the public gallery before her lawyer lambasted Brittany Higgins for “trivialising” his client’s suffering and revealed a high-profile anchor finessed one of her public addresses.
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‘Besmirching those she blames for political demise’: Higgins’ lawyer attacks Reynolds
Brittany Higgins’ lawyer has branded former defence minister Linda Reynolds’ defamation action as having the lowest of motives, and attacked the reliability of her testimony.
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Indigenous justice
‘A failure has occurred’: Perth teen takes own life at youth prison
There are calls for the police minister to resign as a youth has taken his own life inside the Perth facility; the second ever to do so, with both tragedies occurring within the past year.
- by Jesinta Burton, Claire Ottaviano and Holly Thompson
King plays down ‘hysteria’ over Pilbara unionisation, lashes BHP
Madeleine King has accused BHP of trying to weaponise the press amid claims the federal government’s industrial relations laws could spell an “economic catastrophe” in the Pilbara.
- by Jesinta Burton
Lawyers pore over diary entries and texts in Reynolds, Higgins row
From diary entries to text messages with senior political figures and journalists, lawyers for Liberal Senator Linda Reynolds and Brittany Higgins have pored over the final documents to become evidence in their defamation row.
- by Jesinta Burton
Liberals ‘should be embarrassed’: Jarvis hits out over ‘rumour-mongering’
WA Agriculture Minister Jackie Jarvis has refuted reports the polyphagous shot-hole borer has been found in the Shire of Harvey, castigating the Liberal Party for what she described as “irresponsible rumour-mongering”.
- by Jesinta Burton and Emma Young
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‘This is just killing us’: Nicheliving succeeds in last-ditch bid to halt deregistration
Nicheliving has succeeded in an 11th-hour bid to temporarily halt its deregistration following an appeal to the State Administrative Tribunal.
- by Claire Ottaviano and Jesinta Burton
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