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Latest news and comment on the Australian state of Western Australia

March 2025

  • Halls Creek kids with food on a table

    Indigenous affairs reporting
    ‘You cannot survive in Halls Creek’: food insecurity crisis grips WA’s most disadvantaged town

  • Beach in Western Australia

    Holidaying surfer presumed killed in WA shark attack after drone films blood in water

  • Anthony Albanese looks on as Roger Cook speaks

    Three key takeaways from the WA election which hint at Labor’s fortunes (and challenges) in federal vote

  • Western Australia premier Roger Cook speaks at election night event

    Western Australia election: Labor secures third-term victory as Liberals fail to claw back former strongholds

  • WA election: the west may already be won for Labor – it’s just a matter of by how much

  • Western Australia has one story about the gas industry. It won’t accept dissent from ‘over east’

  • WA teenager charged over alleged ‘Christchurch 2.0’ online threat to Sydney mosque

  • Trump’s trade adviser says Australia is waging a ‘frontal assault’ on US aluminium markets. What’s really going on?

  • Who is Roger Cook, the Australian politician who called JD Vance a knob?

  • Western Australian premier Roger Cook apologises after calling US vice-president JD Vance a ‘knob’

  • Premier claims WA a ‘renewable energy powerhouse’ but leaked document shows wind and solar projects have ‘stalled’

February 2025

  • WA premier Roger Cook at Kings Park in Perth, 25 February, 2025

    WA nearly became a one-party state in 2021. Will Labor’s grip on power weaken at next week’s election?

  • File photo of a mine worker inspecting conveyer-belts transporting iron ore at Fortescue’s Solomon Hub mine in Western Australia

    Fortescue and WA government say traditional owners’ $1.8bn compensation claim is worth $8m

  • A memorial to teenager Cassius Turvey

    Cassius Turvey seen holding his bloody head after chase in bushland, court told

  • A Country Fire Authority crew earlier this month. Extreme fire danger and total fire bans have been declared for much of Victoria

    Warnings downgraded but out-of-control bushfires continue to burn in Victoria and Tasmania

  • Tim Winton: Labor hasn’t delivered on more effective nature laws. It’s not just embarrassing, it’s calamitous

    Tim Winton
  • One of Cassius Turvey’s alleged murderers sent concerned messages after another boy allegedly beaten up by her co-accused, court hears

  • Footage shows coral bleaching at Western Australia's Ningaloo Reef – video

  • Large areas of WA’s Ningaloo corals could die in ‘weeks ahead’ after widespread bleaching documented

  • Trial over alleged murder of Cassius Turvey hears of previous attack on another teenage boy

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