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The WA government has introduced a widespread demersal fish ban.

WA anglers hit with lengthy bans to save iconic species ‘on the verge of extinction’

Commercial demersal fishing has been permanently banned in the west coast fishing zone from Kalbarri to Augusta, while recreational fishing is banned until 2027.

  • Hamish Hastie

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WA Premier Roger Cook

Environment reforms ‘could have been worse’ as WA gets first shot at faster approvals

Premier Roger Cook insists WA will not be disadvantaged under the Greens-backed environment reforms, and confirmed the state would be first to negotiate a fast-tracked approvals agreement with the Commonwealth.

  • Carla Hildebrandt and Michael Philipps
WA Premier Roger Cook, lawyers generic, State Development Bill, WAtoday main image. Picture: WAtoday

Lawyers slam ‘ad hoc’ bill that would give WA’s premier major powers

A Law Society of WA letter, seen by this masthead, voices concerns over the looming State Development Bill – and lawyers’ ability to advise clients.

  • Holly Thompson and Cameron Myles
Former judge Anthony Whealy.

Integrity watchdog urges WA premier to drop bill allowing ministers to rewrite laws

A new report warns the State Development Bill exposes WA’s already fragile integrity system to further political influence.

  • Carla Hildebrandt
WA Premier Roger Cook.

Un-democratic or vital? The laws granting WA’s premier massive power

The State Development Bill has emphatic backing from industry, which says it will improve WA’s flagging investment confidence, but has frightened conservation groups.

  • Hamish Hastie
WA Premier Roger Cook will be granted vast powers under a new bill soon to be debated by parliament.

WA public has every reason to be sceptical about a bill that concentrates vast power in premier’s hands

The premier has not taken West Australians into his confidence about the projects he wants to prioritise under Labor’s new State Development Bill.

  • Carmen Lawrence
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West Australian Premier Roger Cook and Rita Saffioti in Canberra - happy with a GST system that delivers WA an extra $6 billion a year.

Please sir … don’t give WA any more money

In a perverse twist, the nation’s richest state says it should keep receiving billions in federal taxpayers’ cash. Clearly, the GST system is broken.

  • Shane Wright
WA Premier Roger Cook and WA Deputy Premier Rita Saffioti arrive for a press conference at Parliament House in Canberra on Wednesday.

WA’s top brass go behind enemy lines in GST fight

The West Australian politicians were grilled on their claims that the state needed the extra $6 billion in GST revenue per year, but claimed the arrangement was good for the nation.

  • Hamish Hastie
Premier Roger Cook and 9 News Perth’s Connor McGoverne at the Chamber of Minerals and Energy WA lunch.

When pressed for a single-word answer on his leadership future, Roger Cook gave a 50-word response

When taking part in a rapid-fire question round with moderator Connor McGoverne Cook declined to provide a single word answer on his political future.

  • Hamish Hastie
WA Premier Roger Cook and Seven West Media chairman Kerry Stokes.

Gift register reveals the WA ministers who attended Stokes’ mansion dinner

The dinner was billed as a thank-you for the government’s taxpayer-funded donations to Kerry Stokes’ Telethon charity.

  • Hamish Hastie

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