Social media users will be able to opt out of algorithm-driven content in their feed and platforms will face steep fines for pushing harmful features and content on children under draft legislation.
Western Australian aged care providers have criticised the federal government's move over the national funding price, claiming it could put project investments at risk.
The Federal Court has ordered former minister Linda Reynolds to file an updated statement of claim after mediation with the Commonwealth did not go to plan.
Seven proposals for defence industry initiatives are to be evaluated as priority options as the state government's Western Defence Forge process enters its second phase.
The state government will look at overhauling local content – including minimum thresholds that currently apply – in its procurement processes as it seeks to highlight its economic agenda after the recent byelection loss in Secret Harbour.
A majority of federal grants handed out as part of an invitation-only scheme to upgrade community infrastructure was directed to Labor seats, a report has found.
A consulting group that withdrew from reviewing the City of Perth's council has cited “reputational grounds” for exiting the project, internal emails reveal.
Premier Roger Cook has declared his government can build the long-awaited Karnup train station, after One Nation claimed it wouldn't be built until after 2029.
Yara Pilbara's chief says its emissions-intensive ammonia plant will be unprofitable in the long-term if it pursues carbon capture storage without federal government financial support.
ANALYSIS: Premier Roger Cook may have released his 'Plan for the Collie Basin' today but the industry itself is moving at a much faster pace than the government.
The Cook government has declared Collie a state development area as part of its response to a taskforce report into the transition of the Collie Basin away from coal.
The Economic Regulation Authority has fined state-owned Synergy $1.2 million, after it found a software error inflated wholesale power prices from the Kwinana big battery.
Liberal leader Basil Zempilas has used a press conference about ambulance ramping to deal with question marks over the future of his own party in the wake of One Nation's by-election wipeout of Labor.
The post-Secret Harbour by-election analysis has begun, but Labor isn't prepared to publicly admit where it went badly wrong during the six-week campaign.
A Pilbara shire will have to stump up $158,000 to repay Mineral Resources rates levied on a fly-in, fly-out camp which the state government ruled un-rateable.
Premier Roger Cook is confident of winning a carve-out for Western Australia when the federal government settles on its domestic gas reservation policy.
Billionaire Gina Rinehart has used a speech to the Bush Summit in New South Wales to accuse the Labor and Greens parties of being “held together” by “an appetite for your money”.
A legal fight is brewing between Nationals MP Lachlan Hunter and Greens MP Sophie McNeill over comments made following a “friends of Palestine” event held in Western Australia's parliament.
Two lobbying and advisory companies have joined forces in Western Australia to create a new service called Approvals Accelerator which will target some of state's biggest projects.
Prime Minister Anthony Albanese will push ahead with sweeping federal data centre regulations following a meeting of National Cabinet in Sydney today, despite mounting pushback from some state governments.
Prime Minister Anthony Albanese has emerged from Wednesday's meeting of the national cabinet and faced questions about his support for Western Australia's GST deal.
A new alliance of seven WA-European chambers of commerce will seek to grow investment, trade, business and government engagement with the Europe Union.