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Apple Airtags lead police to Perth Hills election sign thief
The Liberals Perth Hills campaign team decided to purchase eight of the Apple tracking devices after losing up to 10 signs a night, which one campaign insider said was the worst he’d ever seen.
- by Hamish Hastie
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WA outback to get rocket launch pad under Labor election pledge
Labor has promised $2 million to develop a business case for a WA Space Launch Facility – a common-user spaceport to allow businesses to launch satellites and spacecraft into orbit.
- by Hamish Hastie
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WA election
First and only WA leaders debate rushed and uninspiring
The pair largely stuck to their talking points in the 40-minute snoozefest in which a small audience watching on determined Cook was the narrow victor.
- by Hamish Hastie
Medical board refers Liberals’ Albany candidate to tribunal after LGBTQI+ comments
Thomas Brough, who is an emergency doctor and City of Albany councillor, made the comment at a council meeting in February last year which WAtoday understands triggered several complaints to healthcare watchdog the Australian Health Practitioner Regulation Agency.
- by Hamish Hastie
WA Labor and Liberals trade barbs as election campaigns launch half an hour apart
Don’t Change, Labor pleaded to voters as their campaign song blared – while the Liberals have High Hopes for a huge improvement on 2021.
- by Hamish Hastie and Rachael Clifford
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Nationals to break ranks with Liberal colleagues and get election promises costed by treasury
The country party confirmed to WAtoday it would submit its costings to the Treasury next week, marking an embarrassing deviation from alliance partner the WA Liberal’s defiant stance against using the agency to cost its commitments.
- by Hamish Hastie
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Swan River cities plead for help as they lose fight with mosquitos
The cities of Bayswater, Swan, Bassendean and Belmont released a statement Tuesday urging the Department of Health – which coordinates the state’s response to mosquitos – to step up in their fight against mosquitos.
- by Hamish Hastie
Running Mates: A new side to Premier Roger Cook and Scarborough’s socials star
Who is going to help struggling first home buyers most; and is Mark ‘State Daddy’ McGowan here to save a few seats?
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Kimberley Liberal candidate described pub break-in as a ‘welcome to country’
Gulliver’s Tavern publican Darren Spackman made the remark in a Facebook post accompanying a picture of a smashed window at his venue in 2022.
- by Hamish Hastie
Yes, mozzies are booming in Perth and Peel right now. Here’s why
Wetland-adjacent local governments have been ramping up efforts including using drones and helicopters in their battle to curb the blood-sucker surge.
- by Hamish Hastie
Labor pledges $210m housing package as Liberals get tough on crime
A re-elected Cook Labor government would build up to 1000 new units as part of its Keystart shared-equity scheme, while the Liberal Party promises to “name and shame” prison fugitives.
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