The group behind a controversial attempted protest last month has now targeted the home of high-profile Woodside board member and former WA politician Ben Wyatt.
Pilbara iron ore miner Fortescue will plead guilty to two counts of breaching WA’s Aboriginal Heritage Act when it cleared land in February 2021,a lawyer for the Andrew Forrest-chaired company told Perth Magistrates Court on Friday.
The former WA Treasurer,who joins Rio Tinto’s board in September,expects that Australia will have a price on carbon within the next five years.
The former treasurer has hit back at parliamentary critics for taking on jobs with major WA companies so soon after retiring from politics.
In New South Wales former ministers are required to take a two-year break before working for any organisations involved in major planning and development issues but in WA politicians can move into high-paying private jobs straight away.
The retired politician has been appointed a non-executive director following similar new postings at the West Coast Eagles and Telethon Kids Institute.
Stephen Kaless has been paid nearly $300,000 to settle two legal actions brought against the government after he was sacked when a work colleague accused him of indecently assaulting her at a work Christmas party in December 2019.
Outgoing Treasurer Ben Wyatt labelled the impact on gross state product ‘negligible’ but the opposition and Chamber of Commerce and Industry still want targeted business grants.
Debt is still forecast to crack $40 billion next year and will begin to drop in 2023-24 but the state's operating surplus has increased by $1 billion to $2.2 billion in 2020-21.
Outgoing WA treasurer Ben Wyatt has used his last parliamentary speech to lash"commentators and some elected representatives"for attacking China.
Ben Wyatt said with the successful delivery of the 2020-21 state budget and strengthening of WA's economy he had resolved the time was right to move on.