News Articles for Phil Edman

UPDATE: The premier has claimed he is unaware of a CCC investigation that is reportedly concerned with potential misuses of electoral office funding.

A former Western Australian Liberal MP has been charged with attempting to hinder an investigation by the Corruption and Crime Commission.

CCC head John McKechnie says the failure to acknowledge that many political donors are seeking policy outcomes is holding back true transparency.

There has been a new twist in the Corruption and Crime Commission probe into former Liberal MP Phil Edman.

The opposition has plenty to do before it considers a return to the government benches.

If there is a message to be taken from the Supreme Court's recent ruling in favour of the Legislative Council over the CCC, it's that parliament must be responsible for its own affairs.

The state's Supreme Court has ruled the corruption watchdog should have to hand back documents it seized as part of a probe into allegations of misconduct by former MPs.

An urgent push to have Western Australia's former corruption watchdog reappointed to the role has been labelled "arrogance" by the opposition.

WA's attorney-general has been accused by a Labor colleague of intervening in a corruption investigation involving a laptop seized from a disgraced MP.

Labor and the Liberals say they will back a wide-ranging inquiry into corruption within the state's housing department after Saturday's election.

Brian Ellis and Nigel Hallett face accusations of serious misconduct in the Corruption and Crime Commission's latest report into electoral and parliamentary allowance abuse.

Opposition leader Liza Harvey has attacked the government's attempts to reappoint John McKechnie to the Corruption and Crime Commission, calling the urgency with which Premier Mark McGowan has characterised the nomination disingenuous.

The state government says it will circumvent the upper house committee that oversees the state's Corruption and Crime Commission to renominate John McKechnie as its commissioner, after the committee declined to offer bipartisan support to the incumbent.

Former MLC Phil Edman has left the Liberal Party following an investigation into the alleged misuse of his electorate allowance to fund sordid personal activities.

WA Liberal Leader Liza Harvey has called on the party's state director to expel former MLC Phil Edman, following accusations by the Corruption and Crime Commission that Mr Edman misused his parliamentary allowance to fund lurid personal activities.

South Metropolitan Region MLC Phil Edman has called for an overhaul of the Department of State Development over the allocation of a prime beachfront plot of industrial land to global giant Puma Energy, which is planning to build an $80 million bulk fuel storage depot.

The four major industrial precincts in Kwinana, Cockburn and Rockingham, known as the Western Trade Coast, contributed more than $14.7 billion to the state's economy in 2013, making it the mos

A $1 million study has been launched to determine the potential for recharging aquifers with wastewater in the Kwinana area to address possible future shortages.