Labor is promising to spend $10.4 million to help diabetics self-manage their conditions in a bid to prevent hospitalisations, if re-elected in the March 8 election.
Claire Sadler
Some of Perth’s leading musicians have launched a campaign to save a Fremantle live music venue, that claims it could be forced to close because of a hotel being built next door.
Jessica Page
The former premier confirmed to The West that he would join Labor’s key campaign event this weekend, in his first public appearance in the political arena since his shock resignation in May 2023.
Dylan Caporn
Housing Minister John Carey has laid blame for WA’s social housing shortfall on corrupt former bureacrat Paul Whyte, as Labor promised another $80 million towards a crisis that has gotten worse.
Roger Cook is vowing to slash land tax for build-to-rent developers in a bid to ‘kickstart’ the Perth apartment boom, but has faced tough question over his Government’s record on housing.
Roger Cook has put housing on the State election stage, promising to extend the government’s shared equity scheme to privately built apartments and townhouses if Labor secures another term.
Joe Spagnolo
Labor MP Tracey Roberts has insisted that she is not going anywhere while opening up about the health problems that have plagued her for more than a year and sparked rumours about her future.
Katina Curtis
WA fishers have slammed the Government for breaking a promise they say threatens the future of the lucrative rock lobster industry.
Jessica Evensen
From confidantes to battle-hardened campaigners, this is who the leaders listen to as they battle for votes.
Two outgoing Labor MPs are striking out with a new consultancy as part of a bid to break the political and industry deadlock over climate change.
A re-elected Cook Labor government has promised to fund a $13.8 million acute response care team to help support youth mental health in the South West.
Sofia Fimognari
Two of Albany’s public high schools and one of its disability schools will be injected with $39.8 million to fund infrastructure upgrades and classroom expansions under a re-elected Labor government.
Melissa Sheil
Roger Cook was forced to defend his record on health after a national report exposed that less than half of ED patients are being seen on time.
Jake Dietsch
They were hit with $100 fines for failing to tag on during Labor’s free public transport summer.
Cook has shown an eagerness in his time as Premier to ensure he is not lumped in with Anthony Albanese and Federal Labor.
Premier Roger Cook’s chief of staff has taken extended leave to campaign full-time as Labor’s candidate for Landsdale and could receive a six-figure payout if he wins.
The road is set to be closed for five weeks.
The Cook Labor Government has boosted the Australind train services by adding two more trains, each with three cars after an $80 million investment.
A row has erupted over a Kimberley Aboriginal group’s five-figure donation to WA Labor, with the Liberal Party questioning whether it amounted to a ‘siphoning’ of taxpayer funds.
Labor has seized on new data which shows childcare subsidies have saved Australian families $2768 as proof its policies are providing cost of living relief as it moves towards its goal of universal child care.
Bethany Hiatt
Labor is planning to reverse the ‘reckless’ privatisation of WA’s freight rail network two decades ago, but is refusing to reveal how much it is willing to pay for it.
Offenders between the ages of five and nine who currently slip through the cracks of the justice system will be targeted in a trial program under a re-elected Labor Government.
Jessica Moroney
As well intentioned as the Police Minister’s proposal may be, the concept of trying a serious, defended, offence within 28 days is simply impractical.
Tom Percy
One of Perth’s oldest community football clubs has missed out on funding to spare teenage girls from having to share changerooms, as Roger Cook pledged $30 million towards women’s sport elsewhere.
Jessica Page and Oliver Lane
