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New EraCommentsPremiumNats, Libs sign ‘alliance agreement’ to battle Labor

The Nationals and Liberals have committed to hold talks on how they can work together to defeat Labor after signing an ‘alliance agreement’ today.

Peter Law

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New-look partnershipCommentsPremium
The West Australian exclusive
Nats and Libs to form alliance after election bloodbath

The Nationals and Liberals are just days away from signing an agreement to form an alliance in State Parliament for the next four years, The West can reveal.

Peter Law

‘Team effort’CommentsPremiumScoMo claims credit for McGowan’s landslide victory

Prime Minister Scott Morrison is claiming credit for Premier Mark McGowan’s electoral wipe out of the WA Liberal Party, in his first trip to Perth in 537 days.

Michael Traill

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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

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Electoral reformCommentsPremium
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Why the micro-party will be over in WA

Mark McGowan has signalled it is time to look at the voting system for WA’s Upper House.

Josh Zimmerman

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High timesCommentsPremiumCannabis party wins second seat in WA Parliament

A Perth doctor has become the second member of the Legalise Cannabis party elected to WA’s Upper House while the Greens have learnt their electoral fate.

Michael Traill

‘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

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The West Australian exclusive
98-vote winnerCommentsPremium
The West Australian exclusive
‘Daylight savings’ MP to fly home, sit in WA Parliament

A controversial MP who lives in the US and wants to bring daylight savings to WA says ‘democracy has prevailed’ and has vowed to return to Perth as soon as possible to start his $156,000 a year job.

Joe Spagnolo

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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

Bombshell revelationsPremiumNewly-elected WA daylight saving MP ‘lives in US’

Daylight Saving Party leader and new WA Upper House MP Wilson Tucker has broken his silence with a bombshell revelation he is living in the United States.

Jason Mennell

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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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‘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

‘individual errors’PremiumState election workers ‘still to be paid’

People who helped run the WA election claim to have been left thousands of dollars out of pocket by the recruitment company that hired them.

Charlotte Elton

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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The West Australian exclusive
Power to the peopleCommentsPremium
The West Australian exclusive
‘Radical’ plan to let Lib rank and file pick leader

WA Liberal Senator Dean Smith wants to break the influence of party powerbrokers, proposing a bold new plan in which the Liberal leader would be chosen by rank and file party members, rather than MPs.

Joe Spagnolo

Election payoffCommentsPremiumWA Labor, Nationals MPs to get bank balance boost

Newly promoted Labor backbenchers, as well as Nationals Opposition leader Mia Davies, are getting big pay rises after the State Election, with some bank balances to swell by more than $120,000 a year.

Joe Spagnolo

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McGowan short-changing Nats out of $1m says Davies

The Premier has labelled Nationals leader Mia Davies ‘inexperienced’ after he confirmed her office would receive the same level of funding that he received when in Opposition.

Peter Law

‘I’ve done my job well’CommentsPremiumVote whisperer’s huge payday after micro party win

The Daylight Saving Party’s Wilson Tucker ‘looks certain of election’ despite polling only 85 votes and it’s all thanks to controversial preference whisperer Glenn Druery.

Peter Law

READ THE EXTRAORDINARY LETTERCommentsPremiumCalls for ‘credible’ review to stop ‘demise’ of WA Libs

The letter — compiled by some of WA’s most respected and senior Liberals — warns problems in the party were ‘extremely serious’ and must be dealt with to avoid the party’s ‘demise’ in WA.

Joe Spagnolo

New eraCommentsPremiumHoney sticks with Nats in bid to win back Government

Newly installed Liberal leader David Honey hopes to enter into a formal coalition with the Nationals in opposition and declared he was “aiming to form government at the next election”.

Josh Zimmerman

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Honey, I shrunk the LibsCommentsPremium
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Honey’s top job bittersweet as only other Lib pulls out

Cottesloe’s David Honey — one of the two surviving Liberal MPs — is set to be the new leader of the decimated party after Vasse MP Libby Mettam said she had decided against running.

Peter Law and Josh Zimmerman

RelocationCommentsPremium‘Emperor’s palace’ formally dumped for Cabinet meetings

The McGowan Government has abandoned the purpose-built Cabinet meeting room at Hale House, less than a decade after the historic building’s $26 million refurbishment.

Peter Law

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