Environmental activists are splitting Aboriginal groups apart in moves which echo those taken by miners in the early 2000s, WA Premier Roger Cook says.
Premier Roger Cook will announce a significant overhaul of the state's environmental approvals process today, in response to business delays and uncertainty which have hampered productivity.
Australia's GST distribution arrangements will extend to 2030 but the states will chip in more to fund the National Disability Insurance Scheme, the federal government has revealed.
Premier Roger Cook has told media he believes Australia's state premiers understand WA's role in the national economy, ahead of likely debate over GST in a national cabinet meeting.
The Chamber of Commerce and Industry WA has refreshed its push for payroll tax reform, but Premier Roger Cook has played down the prospect of major change.
Traditional owners of two Mid West cultural sites, which were destroyed and not reported for five years by a copper miner, have welcomed Roger Cook's intervention.
Roger Cook says the funding will deliver certainty, but critics say its an admission of failure and rubber stamps the closure of Griffin Coal and Bluewaters power station in 2026.
Premier Roger Cook is expected to announce a three-year extension to operating subsidies paid to embattled miner Griffin Coal, with the total bill set to exceed $150 million.
City of Perth Lord Mayor Basil Zempilas has doubled down on the closure of an East Perth crisis accommodation centre, calling Premier Roger Cook's comments undermining.
Political donations above $2,600 must be disclosed within 48 hours during state election campaigns, following the formal passage of the second tranche of electoral reform by state parliament today.
The Western Australian government has formally apologised to thousands of Aboriginal people who worked with little to no pay for decades, as part of a historic $180 million class action settlement.
The state government will spend more than $70 million to tackle family and domestic violence, including funding to overhaul the aging Stirling Women's Refuge.
China Eastern Airlines will trial direct flights between Perth and Shanghai over a four-week block early in 2024, reviving an offering suspended in 2020 at the onset of the pandemic.
A $575 million investment in WA's major electricity grid is designed to facilitate energy opportunities in a state “up to its guts” in the energy transition, according to Premier Roger Cook.
Western Australia's contentious Aboriginal Cultural Heritage Act 2021 has officially been repealed, following the implementation of amendments to the original 1972 Aboriginal Heritage Act.
The blame game has started between the state government and City of Perth over the closure of a homeless centre despite a funding offer of $3.1 million.
A medical manufacturing facility formerly run by COVID vaccine producer Pfizer has received a $2 million state government cash injection to expand WA's pharmaceutical capabilities.
The childhood home of former prime minister Bob Hawke will be offered as short-term accommodation by the National Trust of Western Australia, three years after it was bought for almost $1.5 million.
Western Australia's resources sector generated a record $254 billion worth of sales in 2022-23, as lithium cemented its place behind iron ore as the state's second-most-valuable mineral.
Short-term accommodation owners in Western Australia will be offered a $10,000 incentive to rent their properties to long-term tenants to boost housing supply.
Roger Cook will lead a mission to China later in November with a view to securing direct flights between Western Australia and its largest trading partner.
Liberal leader Libby Mettam and North West Central MP Merome Beard, who has defected from the Nationals, faced repeated questions around opposition leadership on Wednesday.
Premier Roger Cook has backed Woodside's controversial Scarborough and Browse projects as part of the regional solution to Asia's “acute anxieties” around energy supply.
Premier Roger Cook will meet with companies including Mitsui & Co on the first day of his mission to Japan, as the government looks to sell its vision for the state's renewable sector.
The WA Liberals have committed to beginning construction of a new maternity hospital in Nedlands in its first term should the party win government in 2025.
A pitch to bring some of the world's foremost space mission experts to WA by Dutch geoscience firm Fugro has received a $5 million boost from the state government.
The WA government is standing by its controversial decision to relocate the $1.8bn maternity hospital to Murdoch despite strong condemnation by WA's most experienced clinicians.
Single homes will be able to be built and modified without the approval of councils under fresh measures introduced as part of the state government's major planning shake-up.
A proposed electric vehicle road user charge in WA is likely to be powered down after the High Court of Australia found a Victorian equivalent of the tax to be unconstitutional.
The state government has awarded more than $1 billion worth of contracts to two international firms tasked with delivering battery energy storage at Kwinana and Collie.
