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Roaming cats kill 47 million native Perth animals a year. These crusaders want that to end
The WA Feral Cat Working Group has urged the government to make an election promise to allow councils to introduce laws forcing Perth’s cat owners to keep them on their property.
- by Hamish Hastie
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Abortion
Goiran to attend pro-life summit as Libs hope to avoid Queensland-style abortion election fire
Pro-life Liberal politician Nick Goiran will speak at the National Life Summit organised by South Australian anti-abortion activist Joanna Howe alongside Katter’s Australian Party MP Robbie Katter.
- by Hamish Hastie
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WA Parliament
Labor’s wall of rabid MPs regularly maul the opposition, but is it bloodlust – or fair game?
Most MPs are quietly shuffling pages or slouching and scrolling – until all hell breaks loose. Usually when schoolkids enter. And then all bets are off.
- by Hamish Hastie
Price tag revealed for WA’s biggest ever infrastructure project
After two-and-a-half years of planning the Kwinana Westport business case has been handed to the government revealing a cost of $7.2 billion in today’s dollars compared to the $4.7 billion the project was originally slated to cost in 2020.
- by Hamish Hastie
Teal independent to take on Liberals in WA’s South West
Western Australia’s second federal community independent candidate has been revealed as Bunbury urologist Dr Sue Chapman.
- by Hamish Hastie
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Liberal Party
WA Liberal-National alliance on fire over gun reforms
The political bunfight broke out after Nationals and Opposition Leader Shane Love told a firearms and fisheries session in Bunbury last week his party would not form government with the Liberals unless they committed to scrapping regulations enforcing the Firearms Act changes.
- by Hamish Hastie
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Hospitals in crisis
Father of Perth toddler who died with undiagnosed leukaemia welcomes coronial inquest
A review into the death of a one-year-old boy suffering from undiagnosed leukaemia has determined it was “reasonable” that he did not get a blood test at a Perth hospital.
- by Hamish Hastie
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Hospitals
Grieving parents were not consulted during review into son’s death at Joondalup hospital
Suzan Al Hulow and Ali Al-Khafaji’s baby son Amir died inside Al Hulow’s womb while in the care of the public hospital on March 22.
- by Hamish Hastie
Vape ban takes effect in WA as city bins overflow with discarded packaging
Vapes can now only be legally purchased in WA with a prescription. But the state’s efforts to reduce their availability is an uphill battle.
- by Hamish Hastie
Fresh call for rodent bait ban in WA after black cockatoo’s death
A black cockatoo has died in what is believed to be the first case of rodent bait poisoning in the species.
- by Claire Ottaviano
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Australian economy
WA’s economy officially the best of the best
WA led in three key categories, securing its position as the top state or territory for the quarter for the first time in a decade.
- by Hamish Hastie
Original URL: https://www.theage.com.au/politics/western-australia