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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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7/1/2025WA Premier Roger Cook in his office at Dumas House, Perth.Pic Colin Murty

Cook poll dances to his own tune

WA Labor Premier Roger Cook has declared his government is ‘proudly independent’ and that his focus is on ensuring re-election rather than helping Anthony Albanese shore up crucial WA seats.

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Pictures of Fortescue AGM in Perth at Optus Stadium.Pictures of Andrew Forrest, during the AGM in Perth.Photo Ross Swanborough. 061124

‘Foreign agent’: Forrest named in Exxon lawsuit

The energy giant has accused Andrew Forrest of orchestrating ‘smear campaigns’ against the oil and gas sector to further his own commercial ambitions.

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Rinehart, Stokes get new fly-in neighbours

A stretch of parkland between the Perth homes of Kerry Stokes and Gina Rinehart will be converted into a habitat for the endangered Carnaby’s black cockatoo.

Paul Garvey

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$2bn wind farm project quietly axed

The partners behind the contentious project had originally vowed to push ahead after the SA government knocked back its plans.

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Kylie Moore-Gilbert says assistance provided to the remaining members of the Bali Nine should be offered to Australians wrongfully detained overseas.

‘Disturbing’: Bali Nine case shocks Kylie Moore-Gilbert

The academic, who spent 800 days in prison in Iran, has called on Australia to establish a formal repatriation program to assist citizens who have been wrongfully detained overseas.

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PERTH, AUSTRALIA - Newswire Photos MAY 6TH 2024 : WA Liberal Leader Libby Mettam adresses the media. Picture: NCA NewsWire / Emma Kirk

We should copy UK puberty-blocker ban: state Lib leader

WA Liberal leader Libby Mettam the only political leader in Australia with a policy to ban the use of puberty blockers, which have now been barred by the UK Labour government.

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31/3/2022Sam Lim, Labor's candidate for the Federal seat of Tangney, with his wife Chew Yong and Bruno his dog at ApplecrossPic Colin Murty

Labor MP in Albo fake quote drama

First-term MP Sam Lim distributed a fabricated quote attributed to Anthony Albanese describing the Melbourne synagogue firebombing as the likely work of ‘a few despondent radicals’.

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CANBERRA, Australia - NewsWire Photos - October 7, 2024: Former Prime Minister, the Hon Tony Abbott and Israel's Ambassador to AustraliaÃÂ Amir Maimon during the October 7th vigil at the Israeli Embassy in Canberra. Picture: NewsWire / Martin Ollman

Mid-East migrants to blame: Abbott

Tony Abbott has blamed migrants from the Middle East for the surge in anti-Semitism across Australia and called for tougher migration restrictions.

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CANBERRA, AUSTRALIA, NewsWire Photos. OCTOBER 26, 2023: Senator Susan McDonald during an Economics Senate Inquiry at Parliament House in Canberra. Picture: NCA NewsWire / Martin Ollman

Coalition seeks corruption watchdog probe on EDO

The opposition says the Federal Court identified examples of the EDO and its agents manipulating material, coaching witnesses and confecting evidence in its legal fight with Santos.

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Anthony Albanese's attendance at a Perth bar mitzvah has divided WA's Jewish community.

Albanese bar mitzvah visit sparks Jewish ire

Multiple people who attended the event were divided over whether Anthony Albanese should have been welcomed, and were ‘amazed at the Prime Minister’s chutzpah’.

Paul Garvey

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