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Re-elected Curtin MP Kate Chaney has called on the Liberal Party to return to more moderate politics in the wake of its blowout election loss.

While a blowout result for Labor is evident across the country, two high-profile WA seats remain undeclared.

WA WRAP: Independent Kate Chaney is well placed to see off a strong challenge from Liberal candidate Tom White and retain the western suburban seat of Curtin, according to ABC projections.

Anthony Albanese will become the first prime minister since John Howard to win two successive elections, with Peter Dutton losing his seat of Dickson.

The three major party candidates vying for WA’s newest electorate, one John Howard described as a ‘must win’, have cast their vote.

After 36 days of campaigning, 16 petrol stations, four debates and a broken down bus, Peter Dutton is ready to face the judgment of the electorate.

Anthony Albanese has been a busy bee as he remains determined to court voters until the campaign's final minute.

The two highest profile candidates for the critical seat of Curtin have made their final pitch for support while casting votes in the Western Suburbs this morning.

Australia is heading for another three years of sugar-hit policies bereft of long-term strategy, according to several industry-leading experts.

The state’s major project assessment body has flagged that an East Perth Primary School will not be enough on its own to address future education needs of the inner-city population.

ANALYSIS: Business News recaps a week’s worth of ABS data and looks at where the economy is headed next.

Business News looks at the promises Anthony Albanese took to the polls in 2022 and whether, three years on, he has delivered.

Students of history will know how the Smoot-Hawley Act of 1930 played out, amid fears of a similar outcome from Donald Trump’s tariffs.

Core inflation dropped below 3 per cent for the first time since 2021, reinforcing expectations of a May 20 rate cut.

ANALYSIS: It’s notoriously hard for incumbent governments to win elections in times of economic uncertainty, yet Canada’s progressive Liberal party has won. Could Australia be next?

Former premier Colin Barnett has lambasted policies to create a strategic critical minerals reserve as both damaging to industry and our key trade relationship with China.

Sandy Anghie has declared she won’t be making a third run for the role of Perth Lord Mayor, the post vacated by now WA Liberal Party leader Basil Zempilas.

Premier Roger Cook has defended the state’s heritage protections, after a report emerged that Gina Rinehart’s Hancock Prospecting plans to demolish a 120-year-old cottage in West Perth.

The new legal battle will see Linda Reynolds sue over the settlement paid to Brittany Higgins.

Gina Rinehart has called for the nation’s defence investment to be more than doubled to 5 per cent of GDP, in an address at the Sydney Opera House on the eve of Anzac Day.

With early voting open and polling day just nine sleeps away, Business News looks at what the major parties are offering to voters.

Labor candidate for the newly minted semi-rural seat of Bullwinkel Trish Cook has refused to be drawn on whether Labor’s live sheep export ban is hurting her bid for the seat.

Peter Dutton has pledged to increase Australia’s defence spending to 3 per cent of the nation’s GDP within a decade if elected next month, in line with US requests.

Opposition leader Peter Dutton has pledged $112 million to duplicate congestion-riddled Shelley Bridge, picking up the promise made by the the Liberal Party of WA ahead of the recent the state election.

Woodside Energy has labelled recent political rhetoric “encouraging” as it progresses a plan to tie a field back through its North West Shelf plant.

President Trump has revealed plans to reduce punitive tariffs on Chinese imports, currently set at a record 145 per cent.

WA Premier Roger Cook says he’s “appalled” by a western suburbs council’s plan to fight excision of public land for the new children’s hospice.

Richard Marles used a press conference this morning to call on the Coalition to reveal its defence policies, while simultaneously deflecting questions on increases to defence presence in WA’s north.

Politics will be toned down for a day after the Pope's death as millions of Australians begin to cast their votes with the opening of pre-polling.

A re-elected Labor government will ban non-compete clauses for those earning less than $175,000.

UPDATED: The state government has named three directors general who will head up new departments and revealed two other DGs including Richard Sellers are set to retire while five key roles remain unfilled.

Australia’s unemployment rate ticked up slightly to 4.1 per cent in March, according to seasonally adjusted data released by the ABS on Thursday.