Perth’s bumper season of major events and direct airline routes has propelled the city to boast Australia’s fullest hotels, with occupancy rates climbing to near 80 per cent last year.
Dylan Caporn
Shane Love has declared the Nationals can ‘absolutely’ win more seats than the Liberal party again, as he unveiled another rival Opposition policy ahead of the March 8 State election.
Dylan Caporn and Jessica Page
The WA Liberals say its $100 million plan to unlock regional housing will extend to Geraldton and the Mid West, promising it will be ‘a key target’ of the program.
Matthew Paddick
After an ongoing pay dispute led to transport chaos across Sydney, a crucial deal that could end the standoff between the unions and transport officials seems closer.
Blake Antrobus
The spectre of Aboriginal cultural heritage laws is being rolled out as an election winner as the seat of Bullwinkel becomes a magnet for visiting federal politicians keen to claim WA’s newest prize.
Jessica Page
One Aussie state is pushing for a major shakeup to pricing at the bowser - including 24-hour caps on fuel prices and mandatory reporting from retailers.
Blair Jackson
Labor has turned public transport into an election issue, with Premier Roger Cook challenging the Liberals to back the Government’s flat metropolitan fare of $2.80 ahead of the March 8 poll.
The workplace umpire has been called in to intervene as one state faces an “unprecedented” mass walkout of key hospital staff.
Jessica Wang
Standing outside Joondalup train station on Sunday, Premier Roger Cook and Transport Minister Rita Saffioti followed a well-worn script for Labor.
As slew of Nationals WA candidates have been appointed as campaign spokespeople from outside of parliament.
Jake Dietsch
Labor is promising a crackdown on hoons if re-elected, but The West Australian can reveal the total number of vehicles being confiscated by WA Police has plummeted by a third in the past decade.
There’s no such thing as a free lunch, but Aussies could soon enjoy tax deductible ones in an elected Coalition government.
Duncan Evans
A WA Liberal promise to give magistrates the power to mandate drug rehabilitation has been described as ‘dangerous’ by Premier Roger Cook.
‘Roger Cook is not writing to the RBA to help Western Australians. Roger Cook is writing to the RBA to save his tired Government and his Labor mates in Canberra,’ Shadow treasurer Steve Martin said.
The NSW Premier has made a grim admission about the spate of anti-Semitic attacks gripping Sydney, flagging possible changes to the law.
Joseph Olbrycht-Palmer
WA commuters will only have to pay one flat fare across the entire public transport network under a new cost-of-living sweetener pitched by Labor ahead of the State Election.
Bethany Hiatt
Premier Roger Cook has declared ‘enough is enough’, telling the Reserve Bank of Australia board it is time to cut interest rates.
Joe Spagnolo
Roger Cook’s chief of staff and Labor candidate for Landsdale, Daniel Pastorelli discusses payouts, Mark McGowan and his most important life lesson.
The federal and New South Wales governments will each fork out $500 million to upgrade to a major transit corridor in Western Sydney.
Aisling Brennan
The Health Services Union of WA has accused the State Government of only being interested in listening to workers ‘when it’s politically convenient’.
Hannah Cross
One of the major infrastructure projects set to be funded is a $20m redevelopment of the Willetton Sports and Community Centre.
The tech executive backed by former NSW premier Gladys Berejiklian has won preselection for a crucial blue ribbon Liberal seat.
The latest chaos with Sydney’s rail network has exposed a gaping flaw that allows Aussies to be held to ransom as unions pressure governments for better deals.
One of Perth’s oldest community football clubs has missed out on funding to spare teenage girls from having to share changerooms, as Roger Cook pledged $30 million towards women’s sport elsewhere.
Jessica Page and Oliver Lane
