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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. 27 JANUARY 2025;Prime Minister Anthony Albanese and Premier Roger Cook at a private meeting with the Jewish community following the Holocaust Memorial in Yokine on Monday morning. Picture: POOL / NewsWire / Kelsey Reid

Cook passes buck on health crisis

The Productivity Commission’s findings on the WA health system came as the Liberal opposition unveiled a $20,000 cash bonus for nursing students.

Paul Garvey

AnalysisCommentary

Newspoll prompts Premier to distance PM

You are far more likely to find the Prime Minister’s face on the WA Liberals’ campaigning material than that of Labor.

Paul Garvey

EXCLUSIVEPolitics

PERTH, AUSTRALIA - NewsWire Photos - 8 DECEMBER 2024: Prime Minister Anthony Albanese joins Premier Roger Cook & Rita Saffioti on the newly opened Ellenbrook train line via Metronet.Picture: NewsWire / Sharon Smith

Newspoll: Roger is Cooking but PM off the boil in the west

Half of voters in the crucial election state of Western Australia believe Anthony Albanese does not deserve to be re-elected, despite Premer Roger Cook being on the verge of delivering a third landslide victory for WA Labor.

Paul Garvey

commentaryPolitics

Despite leaders’ pep talks, there’s no doubt where this is headed

The only two people who say they are uncertain about the likely outcome of next month’s WA election are Premier Roger Cook and Liberal leader Libby Mettam.

Paul Garvey

WA electionNation

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

Cook brushes Basil from outset

Roger Cook has slammed Basil Zempilas as a ‘corrosive’ influence who would topple Liberal leader Libby Mettam at the earliest opportunity.

Paul Garvey

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Disrupt Burrup activists (L-R) Matilda Lane-Rose, Jesse Noakes, Gerard Mazza and Emil Davey attend Perth Magistrates Court on Tuesday 4th February, 2025 for an attempted protest outside Woodside chief executive Meg O'Neill's home in 2023. Picture: Paul Garvey

Woodside CEO home protester flags police complaint

An activist awaiting sentencing over his role in an attempted protest at the home of Woodside Energy’s CEO says he plans to lodge a complaint against WA police after an officer pulled a gun on him.

Paul Garvey

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The anti-gas activists behind a controversial protest at the home of Woodside Energy boss Meg O'Neill will plead guilty to downgraded charges in Perth magistrate's court today. L-R, (Olive green dress) Joana Partyka, (Blue shirt and beard is Gerard Mazza, (Black shirt and shaved head) Jesse Noakes, ( Long hair and green shirt) Emil Davey, (Red hair and checked dress) Matilda Lane-Rose, (Yellow top)Tahlia Stolarski. Picture - Paul Garvey

Woodside CEO protesters guilty but unrepentant

Four anti-gas activists behind a controversial attempted protest at the home of Woodside Energy CEO have pleaded guilty to a string of offences after prosecutors agreed to drop the most serious charge.

Paul Garvey

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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 "horrific sexual abuse" while a ward of the state in the 1980s and 90s. Picture: NewsWire / Emma Kirk

‘I never wanted any of that to be known’: Survivor quizzed over abuse silence

Dion Barber did not disclose the full extent of the abuse he says he suffered at the hands of his stepfather, father and grandfather even when making a claim for criminal injuries compensation

Paul Garvey

CourtsNation

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 "horrific sexual abuse" while a ward of the state in the 1980s and 90s. Picture: NewsWire / Emma Kirk

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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