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PoliticsNow: Roger Cook set to become new WA premier

Long-serving WA Labor deputy Roger Cook will become the state’s next premier after an extraordinary day of backroom dealings.

Paul GarveyPaul Garvey
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4:54AMMay 30, 2023.
Updated 7:27PMMay 30, 2023
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WA Health minister Roger Cook appears set to become premier. Picture: Colin Murty The Australian
WA Health minister Roger Cook appears set to become premier. Picture: Colin Murty The Australian

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Paul Garvey
Paul GarveySenior Reporter

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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