Freelance journalist and broadcaster, columnist for The West Australian.
It’s said that beauty is in the eye of the beholder so I’m quite happy to disagree with anyone who thinks the new traffic bridge over the Swan River at Fremantle is an architectural marvel, writes Paul Murray.
Paul Murray
A $6 million golf club grant, a $560 million taxpayer-funded scheme and an explanation that doesn’t add up. The Prime Minister has dug himself into a hole he may not escape.
Finally the lid might be coming off some of the stinking mess that lies inside the WA Greens, a very secretive branch of the most secretive party in Australian politics.
Anthony Albanese has a ready-made successor to Jim Chalmers and a change of treasurer can’t come soon enough.
When a chorus of Australia’s best and brightest back calls for an inquest into the Hawke children, it’s time to put ideology aside.
PAUL MURRAY: How many tinpot nations is Anthony Albanese prepared to bribe to realise his ambition of a piddling temporary place on the United Nations Security Council?
The constant public criticism of the Cook Government’s spending priorities must be starting to bite.
It is a political truism that people who do not learn from history are doomed to repeat it. WARNING: THIS ARTICLE CONTAINS DISTRESSING DETAILS.
No wonder most Australians have lost faith in parliamentarians who appear more interested in playing politics for electoral advantage than fixing our problems.
Why would the Cook Government give hundreds of thousands of dollars to a mining company to explore for uranium when Labor has an effective ban on uranium mining in WA?
The big secret in Secret Harbour - the one some people apparently don’t want to know - is that today’s by-election for a seat in the WA Parliament isn’t really about State issues at all.
When Anthony Albanese arrives in Perth in the coming week, he will need to have packed something better than empty promises to protect this State’s ‘fair share’ of GST revenues.
