A seven-point plan has been announced to safeguard WA’s fuel supplies after Roger Cook was warned that farmers and small miners were within weeks of running out.
Jessica Page and Simone Grogan
The conflict in the Middle East has hit home for WA’s agriculture industry as diesel prices skyrocket and and farmers begin stockpiling supplies amid a fear of fuel shortages ahead of the seeding season.
Georgia Campion
A shortage in diesel and fuel supplies has ground operations to a halt for some WA farmers who have begun stockpiling resources ahead of the approaching seeding season.
Georgia Campion and Jessica Page
National Farmers Federation and Pingelly broadacre cropping farmer John Hassell has been asked to step down as vice-president for comments concerning sexual harassment against women in the agriculture industry.
Opponents to the Cook Government’s controversial firearms regulations have taken aim at the “chaos” wrought by the introduction and roll out of the laws which came into effect last year.
Support for a parliamentary inquiry into fisheries has been bolstered as fishers once again made their anger known at the Government’s sweeping demersal fishing ban.
Oliver Lane
Nationals WA and Central Wheatbelt MLA Lachlan Hunter has survived a shadow cabinet reshuffle, keeping his agriculture portfolio.
Australia’s billion-dollar sheep and goat meat industry is bracing for impact after a furious US President Donald Trump slapped a global 15 per cent tariff on goods following a Supreme Court ruling.
Education Minister Sabine Winton has stood by her ‘unparliamentary’ defence of a colleague, maintaining she thought a comment by Nationals MP Lachlan Hunter was ‘racist’.
Jessica Page and Oliver Lane
A senior Cook Government minister called an Opposition MP an ‘arsehole’ in Parliament while responding to what she thought was a racist sledge to her colleague.
Several South West delegates joined a trade mission to the Gulf region pursuing new opportunities in key markets.
Yousuf Shameel
A radio callout has led the WA Premier to take a ride with a farmer along a perilous stretch of a Wheatbelt highway for a first-hand experience of treacherous bumps and curves.
Georgia Campion and Oliver Lane
Albany fishermen packed a Nationals WA-organised forum on Thursday, voicing their concerns and calling for an inquiry over the Government’s demersal fishing bans.
Amy Towers
Nearly 500 West Australians with a criminal history have had their firearm licences revoked under the State’s new gun laws, with all 23 appeals to the State Administrative Tribunal unsuccessful.
WA gun owners are facing a tense wait to see if the State’s firearm laws — described as the “toughest in the country” — will be changed.
The Keep the Sheep movement has quietly heralded its return less than six months after announcing a hiatus in the wake of the Federal Election last year.
After weeks of denying one was required, Anthony Albanese has finally bowed to pressure and announced a royal commission into anti-Semitism and social cohesion after the deadly Bondi Beach terror attack.
Katina Curtis
Prime Minister Anthony Albanese is expected to call a royal commission into the Bondi terror attack imminently after resisting mounting pressure, but outrage has erupted over his tipped choice to lead it.
Max Corstorphan and Katina Curtis
Prime Minister Anthony Albanese’s agriculture chief says the Government is worried about China hit the key Australian export.
Joseph Olbrycht-Palmer
Fresh numbers reveal the size of Western Australia’s beef sales to China after the Asian giant slammed restrictions on trade of the meat.
Matt Mckenzie & Georgia Campion
Western Australia’s beef industry is scrambling to understand the full impact of China’s shock restrictions on global meat trade, with a top Kimberley pastoralist warning it will not be good.
I’ve again blown my Christmas budget. Am I part of the inflation problem? Maybe. But the Treasurer’s conundrum will outlast the new year.
Jessica Page
A petition demanding an inquiry into WA’s fish stocks has gained more than 20,000 signatures, as the Cook Government is dragged to court over its ban on demersal fishing.
Education Minister Sabine Winton has defended the Cook Government’s reliance on external advice, after it was revealed $46 million has been spent on consultants in two years.
