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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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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’.

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A boat of asylum seekers was in Australian waters and they have been taken to Christmas Island.

Boat carrying Chinese nationals said to have arrived in NT

If confirmed, it would be the latest in a growing line of foreign vessels to make it to the Australian mainland.

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Returned & Services League of Australia Victorian President Dr Robert Webster OAM poses for a photograph following a press conference at in Melbourne, Friday, April 24, 2020. The Government is topping up this years ANZAC appeal by $1.5m to support RSL's and veterans. (AAP Image/James Ross) NO ARCHIVING

RSL urges action to protect vulnerable veterans

A homeless, drug-addicted veteran was shot last month just days after he received an almost $200,000 lump sum compensation payment, underscoring the risks surrounding some vulnerable ex-soldiers.

Paul Garvey

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Dearth of surgeons reaching flash point in regional city

Anaesthetists at Albany hospital were told to be ready for repeated femoral nerve blocks for patients with broken bones requiring surgery.

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Dr Amanda Kearney, a professor of anthropology at San Diego State University. Picture - Supplied

EDO expert panned rival’s work unread

The professor lamented a statement by the Tiwi Land Council for suggesting that some Tiwi Islanders supported Santos’s plans for the Barossa gas project.

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Indigenous football. McDonnell District v Anmatjere played at the community of Laramba, NT.

Call for feds to sort out court row

The drinking water at Laramba was found to have had three times the recommended levels of uranium under Australian drinking water guidelines.

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Santos opponentsLegal Affairs

MELBOURNE, AUSTRALIA - NOVEMBER 15: Protesters gather at the front of the Federal Court of Australia on November 15, 2022 in Melbourne, Australia. The Federal Court is hearing an appeal by Santos Ltd., which seeks to restart drilling in the Barossa Gas project, located near the Tiwi Islands off the northern coast of Australia. Courts had earlier ruled the approval for drilling in the project as invalid. (Photo by Tamati Smith/Getty Images)

EDO lawfare ‘hurts investment and Indigenous Australians’

Analyst Saul Kavonic says tens of billions of dollars in potential investment in Australia has stalled due to the EDO’s tactics.

Paul Garvey

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Queensland LNP Senator Susan McDonald speaking in Townsville on June 6, 2023. Picture: Blair Jackson.

Santos opponents referred to anti-corruption commission

Opposition resources spokeswoman Susan McDonald is drafting a letter to the federal corruption watchdog asking it to investigate the conduct of the EDO and the academics they used in their attempt to block Santos’ $5.8bn Barossa gas project.

Paul Garvey

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From left: Indigenous consultant Antonia Burke, marine geoscientist Michael O'Leary, and EDO lawyer Alina Leikin.

Further doubts on expert’s ‘evidence’ as EDO bid backfires

The Environmental Defenders Office has been ordered to pay more than $9m to Santos over its role in the legal challenge against the company’s Barossa gas project. It only has $8.5m in the bank.

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PERTH , AUSTRALIA - NewsWire Photos MAY 9 2024 . Premier Roger Cook at WA Parliament with the budget papers. Picture: NCA NewsWire / Sharon Smit

Cook’s concern over activists’ heritage hijack

The revelations about the EDO’s conduct have also prompted calls for greater clarity around the sources of the organisation’s foreign funding

Paul Garvey

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