McGowan ‘made no secret’ of calls to watchdog on emissions guidelines,Cook says

McGowan ‘made no secret’ of calls to watchdog on emissions guidelines,Cook says

The WA premier emphatically supported the state’s resources sector after details emerged of the lengths his predecessor went to in stamping out tough emissions guidelines.

  • byHamish Hastie

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WA Premier leads mission to Indonesia to boost business,tourism ties
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Trade

WA Premier leads mission to Indonesia to boost business,tourism ties

West Australian Premier Roger Cook is leading the biggest business and tourism mission the state has seen,with more than 130 officials,including three cabinet ministers,travelling to Indonesia.

  • byMichael Genovese
Small states’ premiers speak out on Voice as Minns,Andrews hang back

Small states’ premiers speak out on Voice as Minns,Andrews hang back

Chris Minns and Daniel Andrews say they support the Voice to parliament. So where are they?

  • byJames Massola
Cook unfazed by polls showing Voice cracking in WA

Cook unfazed by polls showing Voice cracking in WA

“People will make the sensible and fair-minded response,which is to say Yes,” WA Premier Roger Cook said.

  • byHamish Hastie
WA premier meets Alcoa’s global boss as regulatory screws start turning

WA premier meets Alcoa’s global boss as regulatory screws start turning

Roger Cook relayed concerns about the threats the company’s mining operations posed to drinking water supplies and forests in the Darling Scarp

  • byHamish Hastie andPeter Milne
‘How many deaths will it take?’ Women’s leader tells WA government to step up

‘How many deaths will it take?’ Women’s leader tells WA government to step up

Following a spate of “unspeakable,barbaric” deaths,leaders are meeting in response to a plea for them to “show leadership” even as shocking new data emerges.

  • byRebecca Peppiatt
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Rail car manufacturers can’t compete with China,and it has cost WA jobs
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Manufacturing

Rail car manufacturers can’t compete with China,and it has cost WA jobs

The state’s biggest grain handler CBH has admitted it selected a Chinese outfit over local firms to build hundreds of wagons because of their superior cost,design capability and capacity to complete the work.

  • byHamish Hastie
WA quietly shuts door on more exports of onshore gas

WA quietly shuts door on more exports of onshore gas

The WA government has quietly announced that no onshore gas fields will receive the economic advantage of access to international markets that the Waitsia field owned by Japan’s Mitsui and Kerry Stokes-backed Beach Energy gained in 2020.

  • byPeter Milne
WA seeks bigger voice in Canberra with new ‘embassy’
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Perth

WA seeks bigger voice in Canberra with new ‘embassy’

The office would work like the state’s overseas trade missions and would provide a permanent base for government officials and advocacy groups on “team WA” to “disrupt the thinking in Canberra that holds us back”.

  • byHamish Hastie
Cook opts to burn laws rather than political capital in Aboriginal heritage backflip
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ALP

Cook opts to burn laws rather than political capital in Aboriginal heritage backflip

Reading between the lines,Roger Cook was forced to cut his losses because he did not have enough political capital with the public to die on any hill at the moment.

  • byHamish Hastie
‘I’m sorry’:Roger Cook scraps WA Aboriginal cultural heritage laws
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Indigenous

‘I’m sorry’:Roger Cook scraps WA Aboriginal cultural heritage laws

Western Australia’s 2021 Aboriginal Cultural Heritage Act spent six years in development but just 39 days in operation.

  • byHamish Hastie