Federal Labor has sidelined the Coalition and struck a deal with the Australian Greens to pass its re-written Environmental Protection and Biodiversity Act.
One of WA's oldest specialist police units, the Gold Squad, uses intelligence to crack open gold theft and illegal processing cases, which has spread beyond the Goldfields.
The state's mining lobby has warned that Western Australia's diminished reputation as a mining jurisdiction of choice is at risk, unless government takes action to reduce power prices.
