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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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Senior Rock Art Monitoring Ranger Glen Aubrey assists Professor Katy Evans sample pH on a rock art panel in Murujuga National Park. Image: Murujuga Aboriginal Corporation

Rock art findings a boost for North West Shelf as decision looms

New Environment Minister Murray Watt has promised to make a decision on Woodside’s North West Shelf extension by the end of next week.

Paul Garvey

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Baby come back: Liberals give Ley green light to patch up Coalition after days-long split; Bradfield dead level

The Liberals have given Sussan Ley the authority to reform the Coalition with the Nationals amid David Littleproud’s four non-negotiable demands; In Bradfield, teal Nicolette Boele and Liberal Gisele Kapterian are dead level as a recount looks likely.

Sarah Ison, Jack Quail and Paul Garvey

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Bret Christian publisher of the Post Newspapers which celebrated its 30th Birthday.

Plucky Perth paper presses its own case for survival

The Post’s new printing press may have also opened up for the publication of the Australian Financial Review on the other side of the Nullarbor.

Paul Garvey

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Indigenous woman Raelene Cooper, who is one of the founders of Save Our Songlines is photographed here in front of the North West Shelf gas project.

Activist throws Shelf spanner in Watt’s works

A report on the potential impacts of emissions on the rock art of the Burrup Peninsula has been with the federal minister since 2023.

Paul Garvey

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Devinder Singh is facing expulsion from the WA Liberal Party over video interviews he conducted with teal and Nationals candidates during the recent election campaign, including an interview with Kate Chaney that was posted on April 21, 2025. Picture: YouTube ,

Libs’ purge targets YouTuber

Devinder Singh will soon learn whether he will be booted out of the party over a series of interviews he conducted for his YouTube channel featuring non-Liberal candidates.

Paul Garvey

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Inspector-General of Taxation and Taxation Ombudsman Ruth Owen will push the Australian Taxation Office to spell out a clear timeline for tightening its online security, amid fresh revelations about breaches that have seen hackers repeatedly claim fraudulent payouts.

ATO ‘has more to do on online security’

Ombudsman Ruth Owen says while the ATO has made some security improvements, it is still falling short of expected standards.

Paul Garvey

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The Nationals Member for Gippsland Darren Chester, pictured at Miners Lookout near Loy Yang.

Nationals MP calls for quick return of Coalition

Darren Chester has pushed for the Nationals to rejoin the Coalition before parliament returns, declaring that remaining separated was handing Anthony Albanese a ‘free pass’.

Rhianon Down, Jack Quail and Paul Garvey

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27/2/2025Liberal-turned-Independent Ian Goodenough speaks.WA Citizenship ceremony at Perth Convention Centre.Pic Colin Murty

Liberals move to expel rogue MP’s staff and volunteers

The actions of the staffers and volunteers ‘worked directly against’ the interests of the party in a seat that was eventually won by Labor for the first time in almost 40 years.

Paul Garvey

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BRISBANE, AUSTRALIA -NewsWire Photos - MAY 20,2025.Queensland Premier David Crisafulli speaks during Question Time at Parliament House in Brisbane. Picture: Dan Peled / NewsWire

Federal split sparks Queensland Liberal National Party demerger debate

A Queensland Nationals MP has raised the spectre of the state’s Liberal National Party de-merging in the wake of the Coalition split, as LNP leaders insist it is business as usual.

Sarah Elks, Paul Garvey and Alexi Demetriadi

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Activist makes final plea to new minister on North West Shelf

A teal candidate who almost won an ultra-safe Labor has also warned that more Labor seats would be targeted if Murray Watt approved the project.

Paul Garvey

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