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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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PlacardsPolitics

A Chinese-language Labor corflute outside the prepoll booth in the Perth seat of Tangney. Picture: supplied

Labor targets Chinese voters with ‘Morrison memo’

Chinese-language signs tie Peter Dutton and the Liberal candidate for Tangney to Scott Morrison, who had a fractious relationship with China and parts of the Chinese community.

Paul Garvey

ComebacksPolitics

SYDNEY, AUSTRALIA. NewsWire Photos. FEBRUARY 20, 2025. Josh Frydenberg attends the Sky News anti-semitism summit in Sydney. Picture: NewsWire / Jeremy Piper

Dreams of leading, but family still first

Former federal treasurer Josh Frydenberg has not closed the door on ambitions to be prime minister, despite saying he is enjoying his life outside politics.

Paul Garvey

DefenceDefence

WA Labor MP Kyle McGinn (L) and WA premier Roger Cook. Picture: Facebook

Premier moves to reassure US after anti-AUKUS MP’s visit

State and federal opposition MPs slammed state MP Kyle McGinn and Labor for allowing factional politics and union influences to potentially jeopardise the AUKUS program.

Paul Garvey

exclusiveDefence

America's USS Minnesota at the HMAS Stirling base in February; inset: Labor MP Kyle McGinn and WA Premier Roger Cook.

Labor MP’s secret US mission to warn of subs ‘security risks’

A document distributed through Washington by Kyle McGinn warns that a flagship WA government project ‘fundamentally changes the security environment’ for the AUKUS agreement.

Paul Garvey

GazaPolitics

1/4/2025Adam Bandt, Leader of the Australian Greens at Hyde Park, Perth, WA.Pic Colin Murty

Bandt says Hamas’ fate in Palestinian hands, despite executions

The Greens leader’s latest comment saw him accused of ‘exploiting’ rather than supporting Palestinians.

Paul Garvey

Communist PartyPolitics

James Chan restaurant: James Chan at his now-closed restaurant, Chan's Canton Village. Picture - Supplied

Coalition heat on PM over China link

James Paterson said the Prime Minister needed to explain if a vice-president of an organisation linked to China’s United Front attended his fundraiser.

Paul Garvey

exclusivePolitics

Albanese donor linked to foreign influence body

Thousands of dollars was accepted from a long-term office holder of a controversial Chinese group red-flagged by the Attorney-General as an agent of foreign influence.

Paul Garvey

Election 2025Politics