A $29.9m Matilda Bay ferry terminal is set to sail through approval next week, as river users mount a final-hour plea to stop a project they fear will endanger boats and reshape the iconic bay.
Harriet Flinn
The Cook Government has launched a probe into a $5 million Perth Motorplex tender awarded to a company linked to a senior Coffin Cheater bikie.
Ben Harvey and Charlton Hart
The Cook Government has conceded the price of fish and chips will likely go up, as Opposition MPs warn small businesses will go bust as a result of new bans on demersal fishing.
Jessica Page
The Cook Government has committed $34.9 million to expand WA’s specialist domestic violence response teams - adding staff and moving it to a seven-day operation - as the rate of incidents soars.
Charlton Hart
MPs, who arrived with big smiles and armed with festive props, for what was meant to be State Parliament’s last full day, have had their holidays cut short.
Families that have led a decade-long fight to overhaul WA’s out-dated IVF and surrogacy laws cried tears of joy as the legislation finally passed State Parliament.
WA Police could be forced to release a person they believe is planning a terrorist attack due to a dangerous deficiency uncovered in State legislation.
Tougher penalties, mandatory registration and speed limiting technology are part of a sweeping overhaul recommended by an inquiry into a string of deaths involving e-rideables.
The government is scrapping hundreds of roles across the public sector in an effort to reduce its spending, which has ballooned in recent years.
Alexandra Feiam
The Cook Government has been left red-faced and scrambling to work out how millions of taxpayer dollars were handed to a company linked to a senior Coffin Cheater bikie.
Ben Harvey
US Virginia-class submarines that will operate out of WA could carry nuclear weapons in the future, with Defence conceding the Australian government would not object to the move.
Andrew Greene
Long-awaited laws to expand access to surrogacy and assisted reproductive technology have passed State Parliament’s upper house, after a lengthy and emotional debate.
Legal experts warn proposed laws to ban violent shoppers from WA retail stores risk choking the State’s already back-logged court system.
The Liberal Party’s leadership switch to Basil Zempilas has barely dented Labor’s lead, according to a new opinion poll, which also puts Roger Cook on notice over the cost of living.
A Labor MP has used parliamentary privilege to accuse Catholic Archbishop Tim Costelloe of giving false and misleading evidence during an inquiry into child sex abuse.
A protester glued herself to furniture to growl at Premier Jacinta Allan during Question Time inside the Victorian Parliament’s public gallery.
Emma Kirk
Commercial demersal fishing will be permanently banned across nearly 900km of WA coastline in one of the toughest moves by the Cook Government to restore devastated fish breeding stocks.
Roger Cook has defended an eight-week pay-out, plus entitlements, for WA’s Electoral Commissioner as his resignation triggers a new fight over election funding.
Jessica Page and Charlton Hart
Rita Saffioti has poked fun at Burswood racetrack critics during Question Time, comparing the turnout at a weekend protest to her cousin’s 50th birthday party.
Brittany Higgins has broken her silence after Bruce Lehrmann failed to overturn a landmark defamation suit, saying she can “breathe again”.
Steve Zemek
Women are safer, but still not safe. An extra $109 million is good, but not good enough.
Electoral Commissioner Robert Kennedy has resigned after 24 hours of high-drama, as he defied warnings that Parliament was poised to push him out and Labor was forced back to the drawing board.
Ben Harvey and Jessica Page
The Opposition will clear a path for Roger Cook’s State Development Bill to sail through the Upper House, with surrogacy laws also expected to pass this week.
A rent relief program for tenants to avoid evictions will be extended, the State Government has announced, as the Opposition seized on figures branding Perth the most unaffordable capital city in Australia.
