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Premier Mark McGowan has announced a major cabinet reshuffle this morning, with Amber-Jade Sanderson set to replace Roger Cook as Health Minister.

Dozens of consultants were engaged across WA's public sector in the first half of this year, with Infrastructure WA spending nearly $1 million on external advisers.

Western Australia could face a long wait for more public housing amid concerns more rough sleepers will die on the streets of Perth.

St Patrick's Community Support Centre will receive $2.4 million to deliver accommodation and services to people experiencing homelessness in Mandurah and Rockingham.

What role will unions and factions play in Mark McGowan's second term?

The Nationals will hold just four seats in the lower house after former party leader Terry Redman lost the South West seat he's held since 2013 this morning.

Labor's left faction is set to dominate cabinet appointments as key figures from the party's right flank are shifted out of the ministry.

A consortium led by Aboriginal-owned business Noongar Mia Mia has earned a $7 million contract to help support the state government's housing first homeless initiative.

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

Fremantle's tent city has become a political battleground this week, but community members have stories which are deeper than the soundbites.

With about 13 weeks until the state election, can a 33-year-old first-term MP defy the odds and become Australia's youngest serving premier?

Not having a place to sleep throws a person's world into turmoil.

A long-term vision to create a world-class destination at Victoria Quay is close to being unveiled.

City officials and service providers say helping Perth's homeless requires more investment from federal and state governments.

Treasurer Ben Wyatt and Community Services Minister Simone McGurk have said the state government will spend up to $60 million in the next four years to ensure community service providers can pay for higher wages now mandated under the Equal Remuneration Order.

The state government has announced a 10-year homeless strategy, with $72 million to fund the construction of two facilities in Perth to house people experiencing chronic homelessness.

The state government says it will reverse indexation changes made by the previous Liberal National Government, and commit an additional $30.2 million to the community services sector.

The state government has today announced an updated community services policy, providing five-year contracts with the aim to give not-for-profit organisations greater funding security.

A forum of business leaders and academics has suggested a series of childcare and education reforms as one pathway to closing the gender pay gap.

The state government has set itself the target of increasing the number of women appointed to its boards, committees and advisory bodies to 50 per cent by 2019, though it has a long way to go before hitting gender equality at its major trading enterprises.

The Fremantle Dockers women's team will play the first football game of any code at Perth Stadium next year in what is tipped to be the biggest standalone women's sport event held in Australia.

Local vendors of The Big Issue showed prominent Perth business leaders and politicians what it's like to sell the street magazine today as part of a campaign to increase awareness of the everyday challenges facing the homeless and disadvantaged.

Controversy has erupted over The National Trust's decision to end not-for-profit group Fly By Night's lease of the Artillery Drill Hall in Fremantle.

Developer Sirona Capital says it will press on with plans to redevelop Kings Square in Fremantle, despite the state government seemingly backing out of a commitment to relocate the Department of Ho