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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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cyber fraudNation

CANBERRA, AUSTRALIA - NewsWire Photos - March 26, 2025: Leader of the House, Minister for Home Affairs and Minister for the Arts, Tony Burke during Question Time at Parliament House in Canberra. Picture: NewsWire / Martin Ollman

MyGov ‘riddled with cybersecurity issues’

Many of those who have been hacked were using the same two-factor authentication security that the government is reminding people to adopt to protect their identities.

Paul Garvey

EXCLUSIVENation

18/5/2025Tax Fraud Victim Kate Quinn at Subiaco.Pic Colin Murty

Tax-hack attacks: fraudsters storm ATO’s online portal to steal refunds

While victims, accountants and the tax ombudsman have all flagged issues in the myGov and ATO systems, the ATO says the incidents likely related to identity theft.

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‘We played with his spirit’AFL

PERTH, AUSTRALIA - MAY 18: A moments silence is observed to pay tribute to Adam Selwood during the round ten AFL match between Waalitj Marawar (West Coast Eagles) and Euro-Yroke (Saint Kilda Saints) at Optus Stadium, on May 18, 2025, in Perth, Australia. (Photo by Paul Kane/Getty Images)

Eagles pay tribute to club legend Selwood with drought-breaking win

Football’s ‘saddest day’ ended in some unexpected joy for West Coast fans as, amid tears over the tragic loss of former star Adam Selwood, his old team managed an emotion-charged victory.

Paul Garvey

awkward defencePolitics

No blood on my hands, insists Labor’s ‘factional assassin’

Richard Marles chose to deliver his first press conference since his party’s factional bloodletting not in front of the Canberra press gallery, but before a handful of journalists in WA.

Paul Garvey

Politics

CANBERRA, AUSTRALIA - NewsWire Photos - May 13, 2025: Murray Watt arrives at the swearing-in ceremony at Government House, Canberra. Picture: NewsWire / Martin Ollman

Pressure on Watt to make call on North West Shelf

Environmental groups say the election results show that Australians on both the west and east coasts held concerns about the growth of gas

Paul Garvey

environmentPolitics

NCA 2025 FEDERAL ELECTION Labor BUS. DAY 16 13/04/2025 Australian Prime Minister Anthony Albanese on the campaign trail In the WA.ALP Federal campaign launch held in Perth. Australian Labor Prime Minister Anthony Albanese with Tanya Plibersek. Picture: Jason Edwards / NewsWire

Watt’s first job: fix the Shelf

Anthony Albanese confirmed that Tanya Plibersek would be dumped from the environment portfolio after a turbulent three-year tenure.

Paul Garvey

WANation

PERTH, AUSTRALIA - MAY 03: Trish Cook, Labor candidate for Bullwinkle is seen during the Australian federal election on May 03, 2025 in Perth, Australia. Australians headed to the polls on Saturday for the 2025 federal election, where all 150 seats in the House of Representatives and 40 of 76 Senate seats are up for grabs. This election is especially consequential due to a tightly contested race, with cost-of-living pressures, affordable housing, and energy policy dominating the campaign. Though most polls indicate a narrow Labor victory against the Liberal-National coalition, the result could also lead to a hung parliament, reflecting the growing influence of independents and minor parties, and potentially reshaping the balance of power in Australia in the years ahead. (Photo by Matt Jelonek/Getty Images)

Labor triumphs in Bullwinkel

Bullwinkel was notionally Labor-held but both sides had privately expected it to fall to the Liberals, given it took in areas directly impacted by the Albanese government’s ban on live sheep exports.

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Western AustraliaPolitics

PERTH, AUSTRALIA - MAY 03: Matt Moran, Liberal candidate for Bullwink is seen during the Australian federal election on May 03, 2025 in Perth, Australia. Australians headed to the polls on Saturday for the 2025 federal election, where all 150 seats in the House of Representatives and 40 of 76 Senate seats are up for grabs. This election is especially consequential due to a tightly contested race, with cost-of-living pressures, affordable housing, and energy policy dominating the campaign. Though most polls indicate a narrow Labor victory against the Liberal-National coalition, the result could also lead to a hung parliament, reflecting the growing influence of independents and minor parties, and potentially reshaping the balance of power in Australia in the years ahead. (Photo by Matt Jelonek/Getty Images)

Liberals’ generation next fails to arrive

What was supposed to be an injection of fresh young WA talent into the Liberals’ party room looks set to end in total failure, with Labor on track to claim victory in the new seat of Bullwinkel.

Paul Garvey

NRL expansionNRL

PERTH, AUSTRALIA - MAY 08: Rita Saffioti (Western Australia Sport and Recreation Minister), Andrew Abdo (National Rugby League CEO), Roger Cook (Western Australia Premier) and Peter VÃ¢â¬â¢landys (Australian Rugby League Commission Chairman) pose during an NRL Perth Bears Announcement press conference at HBF Park on May 08, 2025 in Perth, Australia. (Photo by Paul Kane/Getty Images)

Bears resurrection causes a stew

The Cook government’s decision to pump at least $65m into supporting a Perth-based rugby league franchise has raised eyebrows in other sporting codes.

Paul Garvey

WAPolitics

Kate Hulett, Community Independent candidate running for the WA state electorate of Fremantle in the upcoming election on March 8th, 2025. Picture: Natasja Kremers

Red tide continues to creep in the west

Teal independent Kate Hulett suffered her second close loss in as many months as Labor confirmed its best-ever result in WA.

Paul Garvey

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