Nearly $1.9 million from Labor’s $139.7m package to help sheep farmers transition away from live exports has been spent on a new advertising campaign, sparking outrage among industry leaders.
Olivia Ford
The Australian Trucking Association is calling for a review into the newly-released national Code of Practice for train visibility amid mounting demands for train lighting standards to be made legally binding.
The WA Government has extended public consultation on controversial proposed changes to pastoral lease renewals after coming under fire from the State Opposition.
Adam Poulsen
The State Opposition has slammed proposed changes to new lease conditions for WA pastoralists and called on the Cook Government to extend public consultation until after the March election.
Staff reporter
Farmers from across the United Kingdom have taken their protest against a planned inheritance tax increase to the streets of London.
Staff Writers
Labor is promising to spend $1 billion building childcare centres in 160 areas where parents have no services, with the potential for government to run them, in a major pitch ahead of next year’s election.
Katina Curtis
The WA candidate has declared that she will be no idle backbencher during her political comeback, aiming to become deputy prime minister if she wins the battle for Bullwinkel.
Jessica Page
The move will see Transwa fares cut in half for a limited time.
Oliver Lane
The WA Nationals will go back to the drawing board on the South Coast Marine Park and undertake a special inquiry into the selection of all new marine parks in the State, if elected to government next March.
Neil Watkinson
The Keep the Sheep campaign has unveiled a clever new tool in a bid to drum up support in metropolitan Perth for WA’s embattled live export industry.
Rebecca Turner
Drivers need to be alert to ‘vulnerable’ motorcyclists on WA roads, Premier Roger Cook believes, after a horrific weekend saw four riders killed in separate crashes.
Dylan Caporn
Four local governments in WA’s Wheatbelt have been granted nearly $300,000 in State and Federal Government funding for new infrastructure projects to improve water security.
WA Nationals candidate and Keep the Sheep campaigner Paul Brown has labelled Federal Labor’s plan to hire a $1600-a-day live export “transition advocate” an “outrageous misuse” of taxpayer funds.
The Nationals WA have promised to make Working with Children, Police and NDIS checks free for volunteers if they form government next year.
Jake Dietsch
One of the lead spokesmen for the campaign to save live sheep exports — former State MP Paul Brown — has announced he will contest the Senate for the WA Nationals at the Federal Election.
Toodyay farmer Tony Maddox faces trial for alleged Aboriginal Heritage Act breach, causing stress and impacting his health amidst uncertainty.
Rebecca Le May
The State Government has unveiled a $97.3 million State Biosecurity Response Centre it fast-tracked to tackle the growing threat to Perth trees from the invasive shot-hole borer.
Claire Sadler
Former Nationals WA leader and candidate for the new seat of Bullwinkel, Mia Davies, has given her last speech to parliament after a 17-year State career.
Labor insists it still wants to pursue its promised environmental protection agency in 2025 amid fresh speculation as to why Anthony Albanese intervened this week to shelve the plan.
Dan Jervis-Bardy
WA Liberal Senator Slade Brockman has fired shots at a controversial superannuation tax, which he has condemned as a ‘direct attack’ on farmers and small businesses.
Supermarkets face fines of up to $10 million if caught breaching a grocery code of conduct that will become mandatory.
Tess Ikonomou and Poppy Johnston
American president-elect Donald Trump will be ushering in a new era of international relations, and it will be a waiting game to see what this means for Australian farmers.
Bushfire, cyclone and flood victims will be able to access up to $24,000 in emergency relief funding, under a new State Government natural disaster program.
The mayor of Albany has lashed Rex Airlines for leaving the city to pay the “price of its incompetence”, while welcoming a government package that ensures the region will be serviced until June 2025.
Melissa Sheil
