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Running Mates homepage image WAtoday.

Running Mates: Who are the maverick crossbenchers with an eye on the upper house?

Liberal candidates fall over left, right and centre; maverick crossbenchers eye the upper house and the treasurer publicly letting down one of her own.

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undreds of election signs from conservative leaning parties were found dumped off Great Eastern Highway in Greenmount this week.

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. 

  • Hamish Hastie
WA space launch station promise, premier Roger Cook, Emergency Services Minister Stephen Dawson. Picture: WAtoday

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.

  • Hamish Hastie
WA Premier Roger Cook and Liberal leader Libby Mettam have gone head to head in the only leaders debate.

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.

  • Hamish Hastie
WA Liberals candidate for Albany Tom Brough.

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.

  • Hamish Hastie
Premier Roger Cook at his party’s campaign launch on Sunday.

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.

  • Hamish Hastie and Rachael Clifford
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Teal independent candidate for the WA seat of Fremantle, Kate Hulett.

Freo independent announces plan to end ‘gas industry ownership of media’ in WA’s daily newspaper

Kate Hulett took a potshot at Seven West Media’s shareholder links to the gas industry on the second page of The West Australian.

  • Hamish Hastie
WA Opposition Leader Shane Love.

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.

  • Hamish Hastie
WA Liberal candidate for the seat of Kimberley Darren Spackman and a Facebook post he made in 2022. Pictures: Facebook

‘I will not tolerate this behaviour’: Spackman forced to resign after media interview

A WA Liberal candidate has been forced to resign after a media interview in which he expressed views leader Libby Mettam deemed intolerable.

  • Hamish Hastie
Energy Minister Reece Whitby on Thursday.

Labor’s $200m energy promise ‘dreadfully’ unfulfilled

The state government has delivered less than a third of the 1,000 self-sufficient power units it promised for cyclone-impacted residents and farmers at the 2021 election.

  • Connor McGoverne

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