WA’s mining and LNG sectors are the biggest drag on the nation’s journey to net-zero,and WA is the only state that has recorded a rise in emissions compared to 2005 levels.
The protest is the WA iteration of the National Schools Strike 4 Climate and will be the fifth year Australian students have wagged school to demand governments end coal and gas projects.
Western Australian Premier Roger Cook says he will continue the work of his predecessor Mark McGowan as he leads his party to the 2025 election.
Nine News Perth can reveal the state government will use the visit to lobby for direct flights,a service that was cancelled due to the COVID-19 pandemic.
On the local government campaign trail,Basil Zempilas was adamant he’d serve a full four-year term. But a Liberal candidate is needed for Churchlands in 2025. Could the Perth lord mayor fill the role?
The report is the third health document to be leaked in the space of a week,further highlighting the continued internal angst among healthcare professionals over the decision to move the hospital to Murdoch.
Premier Roger Cook said Corrective Services did not have enough resources. “We’re hamstrung by infrastructure. We’re hamstrung by availability of staff,” he said following the tragic death of the teenager in custody.
In a fiery question time,WA Premier Roger Cook accused the opposition of wanting to cancel the women’s and babies’ hospital as more clinicians speak out about the plan.
Throughout the referendum campaign,senior Liberal figures claimed the unintended consequences of the failed Aboriginal cultural heritage laws were similar to what would occur under a Voice to Parliament.
The Cook government plans a new environmental approval regime to keep besieged bauxite miner Alcoa operating but has promised standards will not be lowered.
The laws passed 25 votes to six after a conscience vote in the upper house on Wednesday.