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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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‘take state forward’Nation

Western Australia Premier, Roger Cook speaks during the WA Labor’s 2025 State Election Campaign Launch in Perth, Sunday, February 23, 2025. Picture: Paul Garvey / The Australian

Cook recalls WA’s Covid glory days as election nears

Roger Cook also talked up the state’s economic performance ahead of what is expected to be a comfortable re-election this weekend

Paul Garvey

we’re watchingDefence

ROCKINGHAM, AUSTRALIA - FEBRUARY 26: U.S. Navy officers stand guard aboard Virginia-class fast attack submarine USS Minnesota (SSN-783) after the vessel docked at HMAS Stirling on February 26, 2025 in Rockingham, Australia. The submarine was on a port visit. (Photo by Colin Murty - Pool/Getty Images)

Navy, air force have China ships in their sights

Defence Minister Richard Marles said the monitoring of the flotilla would provide insights into Chinese navy missions.

Paul Garvey

Naval tensionsDefence

Australian, US subs sail out as Chinese flotilla nears WA

As the Chinese naval flotilla moved westwards along Australia’s southern coast, US and Australian submarines have been spotted on the move.

Paul Garvey

WA electionNation

Dr Thomas Brough, Liberal candidate who is in a tight battle for the seat of Albany. Picture: Facebook

Doctor may or may not be what the Libs ordered

Thomas Brough has become the embodiment of the internal Liberal Party debate in Western Australia over its future direction.

Paul Garvey

EXCLUSIVEPolitics

27/2/2025Tony Burke Minister for Home Affairs singing the Australian National Anthem at the event .WA Citizenship ceremony at Perth Convention Centre.Pic Colin Murty

Tony’s tour: Minister for New Voters takes Labor’s citizenship spree national

Hundreds of new citizens in Perth have been sworn in, schooled about electoral boundaries and funnelled past an enrol-to-vote booth, as Tony Burke takes his audacious push to certify thousands of new Australians to the state that could decide the election.

Paul Garvey and Paige Taylor

ResourcesPolitics

CANBERRA, AUSTRALIA - NewsWire Photos - November 27, 2024: Chair of the Community Council of Australia and an Advocate for the Alliance for Gambling Reform, Tim Costello is joined by Kate Chaney MP and other MPÃ¢â¬â¢s and Senators for a press conference at Parliament House in Canberra. Picture: NewsWire / Martin Ollman

Chaney backflips on gas opposition

Teal independent Kate Chaney has walked back her position on Woodside Energy’s North West Shelf project, saying she would now be open to the project going ahead if it was subject to certain conditions.

Paul Garvey

energyPolitics

20/02/2019: (L-R) GrainCorp Chairman Graham Bradley at speaking at the annual shareholders meeting, updating on takeover proposal from Long Term Asset Partners. Hollie Adams/The Australian

‘Get in bed with Greens and the lights go out’

A hung parliament could spell trouble for Australia’s renewable energy rollout, Infrastructure NSW chairman and veteran company director Graham Bradley has warned.

Paul Garvey and Perry Williams

exclusivePolitics

Anthony Albanese shows off his cricket prowess during a charity event at Kirribilli House on Tuesday before sitting down with Olympian ‘Raygun’. Picture: Justin Lloyd

National ‘nightmare’ of teals on a Green pitch, warn energy chiefs

Top energy chiefs have warned a hung parliament would be responsible for ‘horrific’ policy outcomes, amid fears the PM could be left hostage to a crossbench dominated by Greens and teals.

Paul Garvey and Perry Williams

electionPolitics

Western Australia Premier, Roger Cook speaks during the WA LaborÃ¢â¬â¢s 2025 State Election Campaign Launch in Perth, Sunday, February 23, 2025. The Western Australian State Election is scheduled to held on Saturday, March 8, 2025. (AAP Image/Richard Wainwright) NO ARCHIVING

WA leaders both suffer slip-ups in only debate

Roger Cook made a gaffe while discussing his government’s health record while Liberal leader Libby Mettam struggled for detail.

Paul Garvey

EXCLUSIVEPolitics

Teal and Greens MPs will push Labor to axe the expansion of Woodside’s North West Shelf project if a hung parliament eventuates.

Negative energy: Greens, teals vow to push Labor to axe gas expansion plan

Anthony Albanese will come under immediate pressure from the Greens and teals to cancel the $30bn extension of the North West Shelf gas project if Labor falls into minority government.

Paul Garvey

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