The big reveal of the potential cost to the West Australian budget from the Liberal Party’s more than 200 campaign promises has been likened to a performance by the Three Stooges.
There is an inherit conflict between the government’s role as gambling regulator and its position as a financial beneficiary of the industry,according to Greens leader Alison Xamon.
WAtoday understands Labor is keen to avoid another controversy about its closeness to property developers ahead of Saturday’s election,refusing to confirm plans for the multi-storey development.
We are rapidly reaching a point where the cost of not acting on climate change is greater than the cost of acting.
WAtoday spent Tuesday following the exhausted Opposition Leader around the hustings as he sandbagged his own seat and tried to push through to election day.
WAtoday has offered each leader of the two major parties the chance to put their views in an op-ed ahead of the election. Here is Opposition Leader Zak Kirkup’s.
WAtoday has offered each leader of the two major parties the chance to put their views in an op-ed ahead of the election. Here is Premier Mark McGowan’s.
Nearly half of the candidates in the lower house for Saturday’s WA election do not live in the electorate they are running for.
Australia’s state leaders have all enjoyed a surge of popularity during the pandemic but the rock star status of McGowan,a 53-year-old from Perth’s mortgage-belt,has turned political orthodoxies on their head.
A WA Liberal candidate whose pastor father believes Donald Trump was appointed by God and the Black Lives Matter movement is the work of the devil,has come under fire over his endorsement of posts by a Christian commentator that labelled the LGBTQ community as “Gaystapo”.
Premier Mark McGowan may be set for a second term in parliament but majority control of the upper house to be able to pass legislation unimpeded will be a tougher challenge.