Labor is promising to spend $10.4 million to help diabetics self-manage their conditions in a bid to prevent hospitalisations, if re-elected in the March 8 election.
Claire Sadler
‘We should be expecting better,’ she said.
Jessica Page and Oliver Lane
Labor MPs and candidates are campaigning on taxpayer-funded electoral sweeteners, with more than $65 million worth of small funding commitments announced since January.
Dylan Caporn
Fool me once, shame on you. Fool me twice, shame on me. It’s up to voters to tell the difference if the Liberal party can’t.
Jessica Page
The major party candidates putting their money where their mouth is have been revealed.
Jake Dietsch
The election launch on Sunday - understood to be in central Perth - will feature Labor luminaries including Mark McGowan, but the Prime Minister will instead be in Tasmania.
Darren Spackman is now considering whether to run as an independent in the Kimberley seat after The West Australian exposed the expletive-filled rant.
Emergency Services Minister Stephen Dawson has criticised Broome’s supermarkets for their inadequate food supply preparation ahead of cyclone Zeila, calling it ‘disappointing’.
Natasha Clark and Katya Minns
The WA Nationals will rely on Treasury to cost their election commitments, leaving the Liberals as the only major party not to use the service.
Oliver Lane
Education Minister Tony Buti has refused to say if he’s aware of other anti-Semitic incidents at a school where a teacher paid tribute to an assassinated Hamas leader.
The Cook Government’s interpretation and application of Aboriginal cultural heritage should concern all WA landowners.
Libby Mettam
Former political leaders tend to fall into two groups.
It comes after Victoria Park mayor Karen Vernon lashed out at the State Government’s plans for a $217.5 million motorsport street circuit at Burswood Park.
Sophie Gannon
The Nationals have made a number of pledges to appeal to Western Australia’s north on Thursday, promising a new ministerial portfolio and insurance rebates.
‘That is an efficient, acceptable turnaround,’ he said.
Jessica Page and Natasha Clark
A Liberal candidate has resigned, moments after The West Australian exposed his comments about wanting to ‘hang’ young criminals.
Jessica Page, Cain Andrews and Jake Dietsch
Ben O’Shea reveals why the State Daddy might not be the asset Roger Cook is hoping for.
Ben O'Shea
The West previously revealed the Liberal candidate for Perth was a former One Nation candidate and staffer.
Labor has launched a double pronged attack on the Liberal party over costings and a skills shortage, days out from the start of voting in WA.
WA Liberal leader Libby Mettam has accused the State Government of attempting to bury an unfavourable report ahead of the State election.
Hannah Cross
NSW Premier Chris Minns has given more details after rail industrial action was suspended following disruptions to more than 4000 services.
Clareese Packer, Adelaide Lang
A South West real estate agent has hit out at the State Government, claiming current planning and tax systems are “f...ing ridiculous” and have fan the flames of the current housing crisis.
Amber Lilley and Sofia Fimognari
It’s being cast by the ballooning list of un-costed and un-funded promises by Premier Roger Cook and WA Labor who are making last minute deals on the run - from rugby to rail.
Steve Martin
Some of Perth’s leading musicians have launched a campaign to save a Fremantle live music venue, that claims it could be forced to close because of a hotel being built next door.
