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Opposition leader Zak Kirkup has backed the state government's decision to enter a five-day lockdown, hitting back at internet trolls in the process.

The EPA will undertake consultation this week to determine whether or not to assess the proposed Binduli North project in the state's Goldfields.

Clive Palmer's Mineralogy and Woodside Petroleum were among the biggest political donors last year, having contributed a combined $6.2 million to federal parties.

The state has recorded no further local cases of COVID-19 overnight, as health authorities track down more than 100 close contacts of a hotel security guard that tested positive for the UK strain.

The NSW government has been the latest to place restrictions on travellers from Western Australia after Perth and the South West entered lockdown yesterday.

Almost $2 billion will be spent equipping hospitals and other health centres to administer coronavirus vaccines.

Western Australians have completed their first night of lockdown, triggered after a hotel quarantine security guard attended more than a dozen venues while infected with COVID-19.

The government must do a lot more to protect us from increasingly hostile cyber attacks.

The Liberal Party would establish a $50 million fund to support those manufacturing products of critical importance, if elected.

The chair of Australia's corporate regulator has been cleared of misconduct after an expenses investigation, but will still resign.

Premier Mark McGowan has reignited calls for the federal government to extend its JobKeeper subsidy, with just eight weeks until it is due to expire.

Wangara-based Ertech has been appointed lead contractor to a project set to revamp Kalgoorlie's city centre, while SRG Global will build a $15.5 million water tank in Karratha.

Customers will have to check-in at the supermarket and takeaway outlets from February 12 after the state government expanded the mandatory contact tracing rules.

A former adviser to Colin Barnett and friend of Basil Zempilas has been picked to fill a key corporate communications role at the City of Perth.

Madeleine King has taken on the resources portfolio in the opposition's frontbench reshuffle as Anthony Albanese has made the bold assertion he will win the next federal election.

WA Labor is promising thousands of new places at the state's TAFEs if re-elected while the Liberal Party WA has focused attention on Perth's northern suburbs.

Two Australian men accused of participating in the same international text-messaging fraud scheme as Perth tech millionaire Eugeni “Zhenya” Tsvetnenko have been extradited to the US.

Ministerial roles overseeing immigration, investment, population and Perth's CBD are just a few changes the property industry will lobby for ahead of the state election.

As the federal government readies its vaccine rollout, can WA manage the health and economic risks of a second wave of coronavirus?

A $65 million expansion plan set to make Casuarina Prison the state's largest is expected to be given the green light later this week.

The Western Australian Liberals are refusing to commit to having their policies costed by Treasury as potentially record numbers of people prepare to cast an early vote.

Australia will pledge $1.5 billion over five years to help build a more climate-resilient world and set up a new agency to deal with disaster resilience and risk reduction.

WA Labor has pilloried the opposition's plan to sink the City West rail line, warning the project could cost the state as much as $1 billion.

Australia has put a stop to the New Zealand travel bubble for 72 hours after a South African variant of COVID-19 was detected in a woman after 14 days of isolation.

The Western Australian government has blamed spiralling debt under the previous administration for its failure to house more vulnerable people.

Economic tensions and COVID-19 loom large as Sarah Hooper champions WA and international trade atop the state's branch of Department of Foreign Affairs and Trade.

The federal government is boosting Australia's maritime security with a $1 billion development of advanced guided weapons.

The state government has launched a new initiative to boost Perth's tourism sector in the wake of COVID-19, amid claims as many as one in five WA tourism businesses face closure.

Sport and Recreation Minister Mick Murray has unveiled Optus Stadium's new rooftop walk, with just over one month until the attraction opens to the public.

The contenders have had to readjust their traditional campaigning approach because of the sharp rise in early voting.

The Liberal Party has announced plans to allocate $316 million towards community mental health over the next four years, if it forms government.

Western Australia will reopen its borders to NSW and Queensland from Monday but travellers will still be required to self-isolate for 14 days and get a COVID-19 test.