An incumbent and a Harvey councillor are the top names for the WA Liberals in the South West after preselection as the party aims to claw back seats in next year’s election.
Oliver Lane
Politicians at a regional roadshow called on farmers to rally together and take on an activist approach in the face of the Government's decision to phase out live sheep export.
Olivia Ford
The Y WA is calling on more young regional, rural and Indigenous Australians to throw their hat in the ring and apply for the WA Youth Parliament Program to learn how to advocate for their communities.
Newly anointed WA Liberals deputy leader Steve Martin has vowed to fight Labor’s ‘continual attacks on regional industries’ and says his farming background means there’s no one better for the job.
Adam Poulsen
The next generation of changemakers is being called on to try their hand at politics by applying to join the WA Youth Parliament.
Anneke de Boer
The Albanese Government’s controversial biosecurity protection levy has been tabled in a bill introduced into Parliament on Wednesday, sparking outrage among farmers ‘bamboozled’ by the surprise move.
The heads of WA’s peak farm lobby groups refused to meet with Murray Watt in Perth this week after the Federal Agriculture Minister offered them just 30 minutes to discuss “an avalanche of issues”.
Olivia Ford, Adam Poulsen & Liv Casben
In a move aimed at propelling Australia to the forefront of the global clean energy market, the State and Federal governments have finalised a $140 million deal to establish a hydrogen hub in the Pilbara.
Sam Jones
The Cook and Albanese Governments are shelling out $900,000 to implement drought resilience plans across regional WA amid predictions of drier years to come.
Power outages that plunged the Goldfields into darkness for days have spurred a surge in interest in running for the WA Liberals in Kalgoorlie – prompting the party to push back the deadline for nominations.
Josh Zimmerman
The Liberals appear to have secured a star recruit to unseat a regional Labor MP.
Jake Dietsch
Vince Connelly has officially nominated for Liberal preselection in Moore, setting the stage for a second showdown with incumbent Federal MP Ian Goodenough.
The long-debated native logging ban in WA forests is now in effect, with the forestry industry and the State Government still at loggerheads over the move.
Josh Kempton
A promise from the Albanese Government will be kept this week with the opening of the final urgent care clinic in WA, just in time for their end-of-year deadline.
Dan Jervis-Bardy
The WA Nationals are looking for contenders to fill seats across Perth after green-lighting a plan to run candidates in the metropolitan region for the first time in the party’s 110-year history.
Adam Poulsen & Josh Zimmerman
Premier Roger Cook has batted away calls for an apology after he drove a road train a short distance in Fitzroy Crossing without a licence, describing outraged reaction to the incident as ‘malarkey’.
State MPs claim reporting on Broome’s crime wave has turned the town into a ‘Halloween movie’, despite new police statistics showing the scale of the problem and locals saying it’s like a war zone.
Cain Andrews
Shadow police minister Peter Collier has backed cops in their call to massively expand liquor restrictions across much of regional WA, but his Liberal colleague Neil Thomson says it would be a ‘draconian’ move.
Rebecca Le May and Jake Dietsch
Former MP for Geraldton Ian Blayney says regional areas merged into the seat of Geraldton under redrawn boundaries could be neglected if the majority of the population is based in the City of Greater Geraldton.
Jessica Moroney
Seven local governments are turning up the heat on Labor to bin its planned live sheep export ban, after a new report revealed it could cost $128 million in the north-eastern Wheatbelt alone.
The Shire of Harvey is now set to debate only whether to consider abolishing welcome and acknowledgment of country after a change by Cr Craig Carbone.
Sean Van Der Wielen
Several South West hospitals have been named in a list of regional health maintenance funding projects failed to be delivered by the Cook Government.
Daniel Hocking
A 75¢ discount on electronic ear tags sold in WA will be extended as the Cook Government rolls out millions of dollars in grants to help the sheep industry transition to mandatory electronic identification.
Nearly 13,000 people have signed a petition calling on the Cook Government to extend public consultation on its controversial gun law reforms, but Police Minister Paul Papalia is refusing to budge.
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