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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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PERTH, AUSTRALIA - NewsWire Photos - 16 JANUARY, 2025: Dion Barber (R) arrives at the Perth District Court with his lawyer for the third day of his trial. Mr Barber is suing the State of WA over allegations he was subjected to

Choice for ward of state: ‘abuser or the street’

Dion Barber also described some of the sexual abuse he experienced from his father and grandparents during his time under the legal care of the state.

Paul Garvey

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PERTH, AUSTRALIA - NewsWire Photos - 16 JANUARY, 2025: Dion Barber (centre) arrives at the Perth District Court with his lawyer for the third day of his trial. Mr Barber is suing the State of WA over allegations he was subjected to

Survivor describes abuse after state returned him to predator

Dion Barber is seeking compensation over the abuse he suffered while a ward of the state, with a current WA government minister playing a key decision-making role in his care

Paul Garvey

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Don Punch MLA Member for Bunbury, WA. Picture: Facebook

‘Utterly extraordinary’: Labor MP lashed for returning boy to abuser

A judge has blasted the decision to return a ward of the state into the home of a child sex predator, and called for a rethink over whether WA wanted to fight a compensation claim against it.

Paul Garvey

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CANBERRA, AUSTRALIA - OCTOBER 29 2020 Member for Moore, Ian Goodenough in his cowboy boots at Parliament House in Canberra. Picture: Gary Ramage

‘Preferencing ALP not Goodenough’

A Liberal Party elder says it would be ‘unforgivable’ if disgruntled MP Ian Goodenough tries to send his preferences to Labor.

Paul Garvey

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10/02/2017WA State Labor Candidate for Bunbury Don Punch in Bunburypic Colin Murty The Australian

Pressure on Labor over child abuse case

Dion Barber had allegedly already been sexually and physically abused by multiple relatives when he came on to the radar of Don Punch and his Department of Communities colleagues.

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Minister to answer questions in court over child sex victim

Don Punch, now WA Disability Services Minister, allegedly agreed in the late 1980s and early ’90s to a plan to return a child to relatives who had been accused of sexually abusing him and who then allegedly went on to molest him again.

Paul Garvey

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Disgruntled ex-Lib in preferences threat

The fallout from the Liberal Party’s decision not to preselect incumbent MP Ian Goodenough is set to lead to a preferences stand-off that could jeopardise the Coalition’s last seat in metropolitan Perth.

Paul Garvey

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Australian mining executive whose company received millions of dollars from a 1MDB subsidiary in Malaysia is behind bars in Ulaanbaatar - Mo Munshi - Twitter

Plea for detained Aussie to get home

For Mo Munshi and his family, the Australian government’s role in securing the release of the Bali Nine drug smugglers has only exacerbated their pain and frustration about the way it has handled his case.

Paul Garvey

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PERTH, AUSTRALIA. NewsWire Photos. 9 JANUARY 2025 Prime Minister Anthony Albanese meets Premier Roger cook at the Midland Urgent Care Centre Midland. and holds a press conference. Picture: NewsWire/ Sharon Smith

‘No surrender’ on lifting Indigenous outcomes

Premier Roger Cook is keen to build on the ‘unprecedented success’ of WA’s Aboriginal ranger program, citing his commitment to improving Indigenous outcomes.

Paul Garvey

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MELBOURNE, AUSTRALIA. NewsWire Photos. NOVEMBER 9, 2024. MP Andrew Giles holds a press conference at Box Hill Institute's Melbourne city campus regarding the Albanese Government's announcement to reduce student debt by 20%. Picture: NewsWire/Tamati Smith.

Ex-bikie, knife thug lose deport appeals

An Albanian former Comanchero bikie and a New Zealander who held a knife to a woman’s throat had launched legal action aimed at overturning the cancellation of their visas.

Paul Garvey

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