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Is WA health review a sick joke?

Labor must explain why it chose a tarnished Victorian bureaucrat to lead review into WA’s health system.

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Is WA really ready to open up to Omicron?

The State needs a better, more coherent plan to re-enter the world on February 5 with Omicron raging around the country — and either way, it will pose a significant test for Premier Mark McGowan.

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McGowan’s luck wearing thin as we enter 2022

Just as all the glory is currently his, so will be the responsibility for failures when the political cycle eventually turns.

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Blaming Christmas weather records for blackouts a snow job

Discussing the weather these days ends up venturing into the political hotspot of climate change – and maybe to who delivers your electricity.

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Policy disguisePremiumWhy there’s net zero faith in Labor’s climate change policy

Over the next four months Australians will be showered with a bewildering blizzard of political promises aimed at securing their vote for the next national government.

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McGowan’s spin doctors treat us like fools

Why aren’t we being told what will be done? Would the roadmap further expose embarrassing issues?

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Paul Murray: Why would the ABC take Macron’s side?

The only ones fooled by French president Emmanuel Macron’s Monty Python-esque dummy spit work at the national broadcaster, says Paul Murray.

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Hard facts needed on hydrogen economy future

Australia’s integrity agencies in their many forms are going to have to start taking a much closer interest in the emerging hydrogen economy.

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Joe flounderingCommentsPremiumWhy Trump’s in poll position as Biden struggles

Despite his obvious personality flaws, failings in office and a vicious whirlwind of condemnation from political elites, Donald Trump appears hell-bent on staying in the American presidential race.

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West Australians living in State of artificial reality

Premier Mark McGowan’s COVID-19 mantra has left WA ill-prepared for inevitable virus arrival.

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Paul Murray

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Why axing French subs deal makes sense for Australia

In an extraordinarily long line of Australian defence procurement blunders, the Turnbull Government’s decision to buy hopelessly unsuitable French submarines would rank with the worst.

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Why governing could get tougher for Mark McGowan

As Premier Mark McGowan basks in the reflected glow of a Perth-based AFL grand final, he should start getting worried about the personality cult that has grown up around him.

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Will McGowan honour his word with WA’s electoral laws?

If he is an honest and principled politician, Mark McGowan will ensure the principles behind his government’s rewrite of WA’s electoral laws are applied to the State’s representation in the Senate.

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How the CCC wrecked Japan trade official's life

Craig Peacock’s reputation was destroyed, he has been unable to find a permanent job, his health has collapsed and the McGowan Government is pursuing legal action in Japan.

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Budget awash with cash but still no health cure

The State Government began dribbling out details of Thursday’s Budget to the media as far back as July in a PR tactic that has the effect of making the Budget Day a bit of a fizzer.

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Dark storm swirling over South Perth council stoush

A State Administrative Tribunal ruling casts a dark cloud over the rights of councillors to raise concerns about local government finances on social media.

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Paul Murray

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History lessons lost amid bog of Afghanistan war

The 20-year war in Afghanistan was indeed a failure but hindsight is always a luxury and playing the blame game should start with pointing to the right targets.

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Machine warningsCommentsPremiumPaul Murray: Casino inquiry out to blow up the pokies

If nothing else good comes out of the Crown Perth royal commission, it will hopefully explode some of the hypocrisy around gambling in WA.

Paul MurrayCommentsPremiumThe one thing that can cure WA’s alarming health crisis

By Roger Cook’s own standards, set while in Opposition, the Health Minister is badly failing at a time when the health system needs to be in peak condition. Only one thing will help turn this around.

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Is the new Smiths Beach proposal a shore bet?

The failed Smiths Beach project near Yallingup that caused such a stink 15 years ago is set to get a rails run through a new fast-track planning process for its latest proponent, Adrian Fini.

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Paul Murray

Off the agendaCommentsPremiumWhat’s Labor hiding on electoral reform?

No party ever comes to the task of electoral reform with clean hands. Politicians want to win and their interest in voting laws has more to do with advancement and survival than democratic purity.

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Paul MurrayCommentsPremiumMcGowan Government has trampled on CCC safeguards

The McGowan Government has taken a bludgeoning approach to the reappointment of John McKechnie as head of the Corruption and Crime Commission.

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Paul Murray: The home truths behind WA’s new land grab

There is a lot of activity around land releases in the second term of the McGowan Government — but there are questions being asked about the checks and balances needed to protect the public interest.

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Corruption watchdog should stay out of political fray

It should go without saying that quasi-judicial agencies created by governments to fight corruption must not become blighted with the stain of partisan politics. But this has not always been the case.

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