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In from the coldPremium
The West Australian exclusive
Liberal leader hires director who resigned in disgrace

WA Liberal leader David Honey has recruited ex-premier Richard Court’s former right hand man Jack Gilleece — 22 years after he quit government in disgrace over outside business dealings.

Peter Law

ScoMo’s WA tripCommentsPremiumPM promises to deliver for WA during whirlwind tour

Prime Minister Scott Morrison covered the width and breadth of WA during his four-day trip, showing empathy, honour and promising to deliver for Western Australians.

Lanai Scarr

Leading liberalPremiumAndrew Peacock dies in the US aged 82

Andrew Peacock, who has died in the United States aged 82, was one of the leading Liberal politicians of his generation.

The West Australian exclusive
The West Australian exclusive
‘Normal process’CommentsPremium
The West Australian exclusive
‘It’s a lie’: PM denies Palmer support in border spat

Scott Morrison says political advertising linking him with Clive Palmer over his fight with Mark McGowan and WA’s hard border reflects badly on Federal Labor.

Ben O'Shea & Sarah Ison

The West Australian exclusive
The West Australian exclusive
Holgate responseComments
The West Australian exclusive
PM 'regrets' strong language on ex-Post boss

Scott Morrison says he ‘regrets’ the language used against ex-Australia Post boss Christine Holgate after revelations she gave four Cartier watches to company executives.

Ben O'Shea & Sarah Ison

Clotting concernsCommentsPremiumAlbanese hits out at Morrison over vaccine rollout

Federal opposition leader Anthony Albanese has slammed Scott Morrison for abandoning the timeline for Australia’s vaccine roll-out and for ‘putting all their eggs’ in the AstraZeneca basket.

Briana Fiore

Vaccine roll-outVideoCommentsPremium‘Aussies need certainty’: Govt told to lock in jab date

The Federal Government is being pressed to establish a new date for getting all Australians vaccinated after the PM conceded his original October target was no longer possible.

Sarah Ison

opinion
opinion
Federal election feverCommentsPremium
opinion
Morrison set to try and schmooze WA

Is the multi-billion dollar submarine maintenance deal the Federal election sweetener — or does Prime Minister Scott Morrison reckon he’s already done enough to hold his ground in Western Australia?

Joe Spagnolo

The West Australian exclusive
The West Australian exclusive
‘great renewal crusade’CommentsPremium
The West Australian exclusive
WA Liberals ask members to do free work for MPs

Rank and file Liberals have been asked to volunteer their time ‘working with and for MPs’ as part of efforts to rebuild, while the State President has denied the party is broke.

Josh Zimmerman

Election post-mortemCommentsPremium‘Corby’s lawyer’ to lead WA Libs’ election review

Perth QC Mark Trowell, who briefly assisted in the battle to free Schapelle Corby from a Bali jail, has been called in to conduct a review of the WA Liberals’ disastrous State election performance.

Joe Spagnolo

‘Opportunity to rebuild’CommentsPremiumWA Liberal boss Sam Calabrese resigns from top job

WA Liberal state director Sam Calabrese has resigned in the wake of his party’s devastating election loss.

Josh Zimmerman

opinion
opinion
lost liberal valuesCommentsPremium
opinion
We need gender quotas to fix broken Canberra culture

It’s time for quotas inside Australia’s political class. Because what we’re seeing at the highest levels of society is not an honest representation of who we are, or what we want to be, as a nation.

Jenna Clarke

Jenna ClarkeAssistant Editor

The West Australian exclusive
The West Australian exclusive
Court me outCommentsPremium
The West Australian exclusive
Richard Court rules himself out of Libs’ review panel

Former Premier Richard Court will not sit on a panel set to investigate the reasons for the Liberals’ devastating State election loss — but has promised he will not abandon his old party.

Joe Spagnolo

‘An absolute joke’CommentsPremiumPreference system slammed after MP elected on 98 votes

The State government has promised to look at ‘flaws’ in the WA voting system, just days it was revealed a recently-elected single-issue candidate who lives in the US gained just 98 votes.

Charlotte Elton

opinion
opinion
Lib serviceCommentsPremium
opinion
Tony Abbott: What WA Liberals must do

Former prime minister Tony Abbot explains how the WA Liberals can bounce back from the Labor bloodbath of the 2021 State election — and he doesn’t mince his words.

Tony Abbott

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The West Australian exclusive
‘recipe for ruination’CommentsPremium
The West Australian exclusive
Abbott delivers brutal spray at WA Liberals

Tony Abbott has launched a blistering attack on the State Liberal Party saying the thumping election loss was ‘inevitable with a leader on training wheels and policy lifted from the Greens’.

Lanai Scarr

‘On your side’CommentsPremiumPrime Minister for the people: Albanese

Anthony Albanese has declared he will be a Prime Minister for the people as he committed to gender pay equality, job security and prioritising the WA-heavy critical minerals sector.

Lanai Scarr

‘We are on your side’PremiumAlbanese calls on Australians to vote out ScoMo

Federal Opposition leader Anthony Albanese has promised to take a tougher stance on gender issues should he become Prime Minister at the next election, urging Australians to vote out Scott Morrison.

Sarah Ison

Cabinet reshuffleCommentsPremiumCash sworn in as Attorney General in virtual ceremony

West Australian Michaelia Cash became the nation’s top law officer while Governor-General David Hurley was thousands of kilometres away.

Sarah Ison

Disgraced MPVideoPremiumCoalition women say Laming has to go now

Women within the Government are calling for embattled MP Andrew Laming to leave politics immediately, rather than waiting until the next Federal election.

Sarah Ison

NewspollPremiumScandals see Morrison’s popularity nosedive

Scott Morrison’s popularity has fallen sharply amid a string of scandals — including alleged rapes and sexual harassment — by Liberal Party members, with his approval at its lowest point in a year.

Sarah Ison

opinion
opinion
State politicsCommentsPremium
opinion
Is McGowan’s GST battle all bluster?

The oldest trick in politics is to manufacture an external threat to garner domestic support. Last year it was the pandemic, now Mark McGowan has now lobbed on WA’s share of GST as the new threat.

Paul Murray

Paul MurrayColumnist

opinion
opinion
Careful what you wish forCommentsPremium
opinion
Despite the bravado, Nats worried in Opposition

At a glimpse, it all looks champagne and chocolates for Mia Davies and her National Party colleagues. But with power, comes responsibility and I see grey clouds on the horizon for the WA Nationals.

Joe Spagnolo

State election wipeoutCommentsPremiumLiberals bicker over who will decide what went wrong

Two weeks after the WA Liberal Party was annihilated at the State election, it still cannot agree on who should be on a review committee to find out what went so horribly wrong on Black Saturday.

Joe Spagnolo

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