WA Liberal party elders — including ex-premier Richard Court — have penned a letter that appears to be aimed at MPs Nick Goiran and Peter Collier, who were exposed as leading members of ‘The Clan’.
Josh Zimmerman
A review of the WA Liberals says powerful factions have played a significant role in the party’s ‘near-extinction’, but fails to name anyone for the conservatives’ demise. READ THE FULL REVIEW
Joe Spagnolo
For die-hard Liberals, August 28 will be an important day when we find out whether WA Libs are dinkum about resurrecting a once proud party which is now the laughing stock of Australian politics.
Stuart Smith has been selected to help rebuild the electoral prospects of the WA Liberals after the party lost official opposition status and was reduced to just two seats.
The leader of the Daylight Saving Party Wilson Tucker, who received just 98 votes in the state election, has pledged to oppose daylight saving if it ‘conflicts’ with what his electorate wants.
Charlotte Elton
The WA Liberal Party has called on regional Labor MPs to sign a petition opposing regional electoral reform, accusing Labor of planning to ‘slash’ regional representation.
Ayor Makur Chuot, who gave birth last Saturday, will be sworn into WA’s Upper House next week — making her Australia’s first South Sudanese MP and WA’s first MP of African descent.
Rhianna Mitchell
Mark McGowan insisted during his campaign for a second term in government that electoral reform of the Upper House was ‘not on our agenda’. But with the win secured, the reality is far different.
Peter Law
A vote in Kalgoorlie is worth 3.48 times more than the value of a vote in Albany, and 1.48 times more than Esperance — our outdated system discriminates against some and boosts the stocks of others.
John Quigley
The Nationals and Liberals have committed to hold talks on how they can work together to defeat Labor after signing an ‘alliance agreement’ today.
The Nationals and Liberals are just days away from signing an agreement to form an alliance in State Parliament for the next four years, The West can reveal.
Prime Minister Scott Morrison is claiming credit for Premier Mark McGowan’s electoral wipe out of the WA Liberal Party, in his first trip to Perth in 537 days.
Michael Traill
Rank and file Liberals have been asked to volunteer their time ‘working with and for MPs’ as part of efforts to rebuild, while the State President has denied the party is broke.
Perth QC Mark Trowell, who briefly assisted in the battle to free Schapelle Corby from a Bali jail, has been called in to conduct a review of the WA Liberals’ disastrous State election performance.
Mark McGowan has signalled it is time to look at the voting system for WA’s Upper House.
A Perth doctor has become the second member of the Legalise Cannabis party elected to WA’s Upper House while the Greens have learnt their electoral fate.
WA Liberal state director Sam Calabrese has resigned in the wake of his party’s devastating election loss.
A controversial MP who lives in the US and wants to bring daylight savings to WA says ‘democracy has prevailed’ and has vowed to return to Perth as soon as possible to start his $156,000 a year job.
Former Premier Richard Court will not sit on a panel set to investigate the reasons for the Liberals’ devastating State election loss — but has promised he will not abandon his old party.
The State government has promised to look at ‘flaws’ in the WA voting system, just days it was revealed a recently-elected single-issue candidate who lives in the US gained just 98 votes.
Daylight Saving Party leader and new WA Upper House MP Wilson Tucker has broken his silence with a bombshell revelation he is living in the United States.
Jason Mennell
Former prime minister Tony Abbot explains how the WA Liberals can bounce back from the Labor bloodbath of the 2021 State election — and he doesn’t mince his words.
Tony Abbott
Tony Abbott has launched a blistering attack on the State Liberal Party saying the thumping election loss was ‘inevitable with a leader on training wheels and policy lifted from the Greens’.
Lanai Scarr
People who helped run the WA election claim to have been left thousands of dollars out of pocket by the recruitment company that hired them.
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