A secret economic analysis of the NRL’s push into Perth has been commissioned by the Cook Government — and the Premier is refusing to release it until after a deal is done.
Jessica Page
Premier Roger Cook can’t guarantee how many home games would be played in Perth by a WA rugby league team, saying the decision would be ‘entirely’ up to the NRL.
Claire Sadler
The Premier has been accused of secrecy after he refused to reveal the details of a beefed-up deal with the NRL to bring a club to WA.
Dylan Caporn
Premier Roger Cook said domestic violence offenders should be “put behind bars” in regional areas where electronic monitoring devices cannot be used
Sofia Fimognari and Dylan Caporn
In an election more about personality than policy, Labor’s campaign launch had to reframe the meaning of leadership. But it was haunted by a leader not even in Australia.
Katina Curtis
First-home buyers won’t have to save for as long or pay tens of thousands for mortgage insurance under a major Labor pitch to young voters that also comes with a $10 billion promise to build new housing.
Ferry commutes across the Swan River will become easier with the Federal Government adding $60 million to Roger Cook’s plans to expand water transport services.
The political duo ran side by side in Kings Park, with the Premier sporting a Kwinana Tennis Club shirt and Mr Marles a white Hawaii Athletics t-shirt.
Oliver Lane
From the hot seat of running the State to a bike saddle under the baking sun, Premier Roger Cook was among 170 hardy cyclists who crossed the finishing line of this year’s Hawaiian Ride for Youth.
John Flint
Roger Cook has bowed to pressure to review the start date for the $5000 home battery subsidy that was a hallmark of his State election campaign, but won’t back date payments.
The Premier’s State Government overhaul is not finished, with hints he will rollback some of Mark McGowan’s first term structural departmental changes.
Roger Cook won the election. Fair and square. He is now not just the Premier his party chose, he’s the Premier this State elected.
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Speaking at the National Press Club in Canberra on Thursday, the mining magnate said the State leader had delivered an ‘outstanding’ result at Saturday’s poll.
Caitlyn Rintoul
The Prime Minister was in Perth to bask in the afterglow of Roger Cook’s election victory, five days after WA Labor won its third landslide in a row.
Jake Dietsch
A bevy of senior advisers to Roger Cook have called time on their years in Dumas House, as the Premier uses the post-election honeymoon to shake up ministerial staffing ranks.
The three vacancies in Roger Cook’s cabinet are set to be filled by former union boss Meredith Hammat, former town planner Jess Stojkovski and former union lawyer Matthew Swinbourn, according to Labor sources.
Jessica Page and Dylan Caporn
KATINA CURTIS: Roger Cook’s victory shows voters in WA are open to an offering shaped around local jobs, manufacturing, better services and stable governance in times of global uncertainty.
Roger Cook says he is ‘not taking anything for granted’, despite being at unbackable odds to win today’s state Election.
Joe Spagnolo
After putting his foot in his mouth and calling Donald Trump’s deputy JD Vance a KNOB, WA Premier Roger Cook was forced to apologise for his ‘light-hearted’ comments.
Ben O'Shea
The Premier branded US Vice-President JD Vance a ‘knob’ at The West Australian’s Leadership Matters event today — then later apologised for the remark.
Western Australia’s success has not been by chance, but came as a result of good governance, Premier Roger Cook has declared as he wrapped up his pitch for an historic third term for Labor.
WA will extend assistance to Queensland in the event of any damage caused by Tropical Cyclone Alfred, Roger Cook says, even by accepting any offer to host AFL games instead of Brisbane.
The Premier has urged the public to be wary with their votes as Labor MPs brace for a likely ‘correction” in the wake of the 2021 annihilation.
Voters don’t love him, like they loved Mr McGowan in 2021. But Mr Cook only needs them to like him, just enough.
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