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Paul Garvey is an award-winning journalist with more than two decades’ experience in newsrooms around Australia and the world. He is currently the senior reporter in The Australian’s WA bureau, covering politics, courts, billionaires and everything in between. He has previously written for The Wall Street Journal in New York, The Australian Financial Review in Melbourne, and for The Australian from Hong Kong before returning to his native Perth. He was the WA Journalist of the Year in 2024 and is a two-time winner of The Beck Prize for political journalism.

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Senator’s stumbling blockPolitics

PERTH, AUSTRALIA - NewsWire Photos - June 2nd 2025: Prime Minister Anthony Albanese at a press conference announcing former Green's senator Dorinda Cox has joined the Labor Party; Announced at The Old Tea Pavilion, Kings Park in Perth, WA. Picture: NewsWire / Philip Gostelow

Bullying complaints against Labor’s Dorinda Cox ‘not over’

Cox’s previous comments about Israel and Gaza could also present headaches for the Albanese government that she is now part of.

Paul Garvey and Sarah Ison

politics nowNation

‘Toe the party line’: PM to defector Cox

Anthony Albanese says outspoken North West Shelf critic Dorinda Cox must support Labor’s policies. The run of inflation-beating pay hikes are not sustainable without a pickup in productivity growth, the Ai Group warns.

Sarah Ison, Jack Quail and Paul Garvey

defectionPolitics

Greens fume as Senator Cox jumps ship to Labor

Dorinda Cox’s shock defection from the Greens to Labor has blindsided her former colleagues and angered ex-staffers who had complained of bullying during their time in her office.

Paul Garvey and Sarah Ison

‘the right to say no’Indigenous

(L-R) Rio Tinto iron ore chief Simon Trott with PKKP Aboriginal Corp chairman Terry Drage. Picture: Rio Tinto

Juukan Gorge: Elders to keep Rio Tinto on the right track

Traditional owners say the agreement with Rio Tinto will give them much stronger protections than available under current laws.

Paul Garvey

Gas projectPolitics

CANBERRA, AUSTRALIA - NewsWire Photos - May 13, 2025: Murray Watt arrives at the swearing-in ceremony at Government House, Canberra. Picture: NewsWire / Martin Ollman

Minister rocks greenies, grants approval for Shelf

Environment Minister Murray Watt has dismissed the opposition of UNESCO and a string of activists’ claims around a critical scientific study to approve Woodside’s decades-long extension of the North West Shelf gas plant.

Paul Garvey

Politics NowPolitics

CANBERRA, AUSTRALIA - NewsWire Photos - May 28, 2025: Leader of the Opposition Sussan Ley and Party leader of the National Party of Australia David Littleproud hold a press conference at Parliament House in Canberra Picture: NewsWire / Martin Ollman

Coalition shadow cabinet revealed as Labor approves NW Shelf life

Liberal leader Sussan Ley and Nationals leader David Littleproud have announced the new shadow cabinet: O’Brien treasury, Cash foreign affairs, Taylor defence, Paterson finance; Environment Minister Murray Watt has approved a four-decade extension for Woodside’s North West Shelf gas project.

Rhiannon Down, Sarah Ison, Ben Packham, Jack Quail and Paul Garvey

gas projectNation

Rock Art in the Burrup Peninsula, Western Australia which is home to the world's largest collection of rock art, as well as a recently lodged application to have the area listed as a UNESCO world heritage site. Save Our Songlines, the activist group is opposed to more industrial developments on the Burrup. Picture: Supplied

NW Shelf rock art scientists ‘silenced’

Archaeologist Benjamin Smith says the findings of a key study were misrepresented by the WA government in a summary full of ‘lies’ and ‘propaganda’.

Paul Garvey

exclusiveIndigenous

Rock the ‘smoking gun’ to halt Shelf project: UWA professor

A small piece of rock that spent 30 years sitting in a Melbourne office will be used in an 11th-hour bid to blow apart the $30bn decades-long extension of Woodside Energy’s North West Shelf gas plant.

Paul Garvey

Partyroom turmoilPolitics

Tom White to challenge Caroline Di Russo for WA Liberal Party presidency

Presidential showdown for embattled state Libs

If successful, Tom White would be the fourth Liberal president in WA in a four-year period that has delivered four of the party’s worst election results in the state.

Paul Garvey

EXCLUSIVESport

Man bites Bear: ‘new CEO to be taught lesson’ over tabloid past

Anthony De Ceglie’s media career has left him off-side with many of those people he will now need to court in his role with the Perth Bears.

Paul Garvey

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