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A C-Series train at Alstom’s Bellevue facility.

Transport authority to sit down with train drivers over C-Series concerns

The driver workshop would be held in the coming weeks after more than 79 per cent surveyed recently called for the government to suspend railcar delivery until issues were addressed.

  • Hamish Hastie

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Former WA Health Minister John Day.

Labor’s mad scramble to fix ‘invalid appointment’ of man in charge of WA politicians’ salaries

Labor will introduce an amendment to laws governing the Salaries and Allowances Tribunal on Tuesday to patch up the 2021 appointment of former Barnett government minister John Day.

  • Hamish Hastie
Alma Garcia, left, takes a hit from Bec Rawlings during a 125-pound bout at the Bare Knuckle Fighting Championship in 2018. Rawlings will fight in Perth at the BKFC event on July 19.

Regulator delivers knockout blow to Perth bare-knuckle boxing bout

WA’s Combat Sports Commission board has declined a permit application from the Bare Knuckle Boxing Championship to stage a bout at RAC Arena next month.

  • Hamish Hastie
The PetsWA registration website is in limbo.

‘Dog’s breakfast’: WA pet registry in limbo as anti-puppy farming laws come into effect

The PetsWA website was a key pillar in the Labor government’s stop puppy farming legislation, but the $9.8 million contract to build it has been scrapped. 

  • Hamish Hastie
The Bare Knuckle Fighting Championship Perth event on its website.

‘Morally repugnant’: Opposition spars with Labor in bare-knuckle boxing push

The government has distanced itself from a high-profile bid to bring to RAC Arena the sport doctors call “human dogfighting”, but has also not ruled it out.

  • Hamish Hastie
Development WA sold regional industrial land for much lower than it was valued at.

Why Development WA sold a parcel of regional land for $415k less than its value

The piece of land was originally approved to be sold at $600,000, then was valued at $800,000 - but eventually sold for $385,000.

  • Hamish Hastie
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Griffin Coal is burning through its taxpayer cash.

Griffin Coal set to deplete $220 million in WA taxpayer support nine months early

Premier Roger Cook revealed to parliament that the government had so far made $182.7 million worth of payments from the $220 million support package for Griffin Coal.

  • Hamish Hastie
Inglewood resident Melissa Molinari.

Residents in ‘most policed area of Perth’ enraged by minister’s response

Housing Minister John Carey was grilled about the complex in parliament on Wednesday as residents watched on and at times heckled from the public gallery.

  • Hamish Hastie
Retiring WA Labor Upper House MP Kyle McGinn doing a shoey on his last day in parliament.

‘I’m used to getting told off’: WA MP ends final day in parliament with a ‘shoey’

Upper house Labor MP Kyle McGinn delivered his entire 56-minute valedictory speech wearing only one shoe. The reason for that was made clear at the end.

  • Hamish Hastie
Former Woodside chief Peter Coleman.

Coleman mulls return to Infinite Green Energy under last-ditch rescue plan

West Australian business heavyweight Peter Coleman could return to the helm of embattled hydrogen hopeful Infinite Green Energy under an 11th-hour plan to drag it out of administration.

  • Jesinta Burton

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