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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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NEWSPOLL SHOCKNation

Western Australia Premier, Roger Cook speaks during the WA LaborÃ¢â¬â¢s 2025 State Election Campaign Launch in Perth, Sunday, February 23, 2025. The Western Australian State Election is scheduled to held on Saturday, March 8, 2025. (AAP Image/Richard Wainwright) NO ARCHIVING

Cook’s feast: Libs fail to eat into Labor’s dominant hold on WA

The latest Newspoll shows the Liberals are tipped to barely reach their internal pass mark of emerging with 10 lower-house seats in Western Australia’s state election this weekend.

Paul Garvey

WA analysisPolitics

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

Two clear winners to get the popular vote

Saturday is shaping up as a great day for Labor’s Roger Cook and a good day for Liberal Basil Zempilas.

Paul Garvey

WA ELECTIONNation

11/02/2025WA Liberal leader Libby Mettam, photographed in Perth.Pic Colin Murty

Labor eyes third term, Liberals eye relevance as poll nears

Emerging with 10 seats in the WA lower house would be the state Liberals’ second-worst return ever, but it is seen by some insiders as the pass mark.

Paul Garvey

‘Christchurch 2.0’Nation

SYDNEY, AUSTRALIA - NewsWire Photos - MARCH 4, 2025: A police investigation is underway following a disturbing threat to a mosque in Western Sydney. Police outside the Australian Islamic House – Masjid Al-Bayt Al-Islami in Edmonson on Tuesday night. Picture: NewsWire / Thomas Lisson

Muslims ‘safe’ after threat of violence

WA police chief Col Blanch said the incident was a reminder for parents to be vigilant about their children’s use of the internet.

Paul Garvey

‘take state forward’Nation

Western Australia Premier, Roger Cook speaks during the WA Labor’s 2025 State Election Campaign Launch in Perth, Sunday, February 23, 2025. Picture: Paul Garvey / The Australian

Cook recalls WA’s Covid glory days as election nears

Roger Cook also talked up the state’s economic performance ahead of what is expected to be a comfortable re-election this weekend

Paul Garvey

we’re watchingDefence

ROCKINGHAM, AUSTRALIA - FEBRUARY 26: U.S. Navy officers stand guard aboard Virginia-class fast attack submarine USS Minnesota (SSN-783) after the vessel docked at HMAS Stirling on February 26, 2025 in Rockingham, Australia. The submarine was on a port visit. (Photo by Colin Murty - Pool/Getty Images)

Navy, air force have China ships in their sights

Defence Minister Richard Marles said the monitoring of the flotilla would provide insights into Chinese navy missions.

Paul Garvey

Naval tensionsDefence

Australian, US subs sail out as Chinese flotilla nears WA

As the Chinese naval flotilla moved westwards along Australia’s southern coast, US and Australian submarines have been spotted on the move.

Paul Garvey

WA electionNation

Dr Thomas Brough, Liberal candidate who is in a tight battle for the seat of Albany. Picture: Facebook

Doctor may or may not be what the Libs ordered

Thomas Brough has become the embodiment of the internal Liberal Party debate in Western Australia over its future direction.

Paul Garvey

EXCLUSIVEPolitics

27/2/2025Tony Burke Minister for Home Affairs singing the Australian National Anthem at the event .WA Citizenship ceremony at Perth Convention Centre.Pic Colin Murty

Tony’s tour: Minister for New Voters takes Labor’s citizenship spree national

Hundreds of new citizens in Perth have been sworn in, schooled about electoral boundaries and funnelled past an enrol-to-vote booth, as Tony Burke takes his audacious push to certify thousands of new Australians to the state that could decide the election.

Paul Garvey and Paige Taylor

ResourcesPolitics

CANBERRA, AUSTRALIA - NewsWire Photos - November 27, 2024: Chair of the Community Council of Australia and an Advocate for the Alliance for Gambling Reform, Tim Costello is joined by Kate Chaney MP and other MPÃ¢â¬â¢s and Senators for a press conference at Parliament House in Canberra. Picture: NewsWire / Martin Ollman

Chaney backflips on gas opposition

Teal independent Kate Chaney has walked back her position on Woodside Energy’s North West Shelf project, saying she would now be open to the project going ahead if it was subject to certain conditions.

Paul Garvey

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