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Confidential text messages between West Australian Premier Mark McGowan and Attorney-General John Quigley about Clive Palmer’s border challenge will be aired publicly at trial after the state government lost its legal bid to keep the communications secret.
West Australian Premier Mark McGowan says calls to bring down the nation’s international border this year are ‘mad’ and home quarantine for returned travellers is a recipe for a COVID-19 disaster.
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West Australian doctors are calling for Premier Mark McGowan to reopen the border as promised, saying the medical system is as ready as it will ever be.
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Beaten-up rookie Docker Andrew Brayshaw is not friends with assailant Andrew Gaff, did not play golf with the suspended Eagle and his family are not okay with the vicious derby attack that left the 18-year-old with a broken jaw and three displaced teeth.
WA Police gave billionaire mining and media mogul Kerry Stokes and his wife an exemption from mandatory hotel quarantine rules on medical grounds after they returned to Perth from the US on their private jet two weeks ago.
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West Australian Premier Mark McGowan has labelled Prime Minister Scott Morrison's support of Clive Palmer's border challenge before the High Court as "ridiculous" and unnecessary.
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Clive Palmer faces up to five years in jail after being charged with fraud and dishonest use of his position as a company director over the funding of his political party.
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WA’s hard border with the rest of the nation and its COVID-19 suppression measures have helped the state rise to become the country’s sixth-best performing economy.
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Chinese consular officials monitored and filmed an anti-Chinese Communist Party rally held outside of Western Australia's Parliament House, according to organisers.
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WA Chief Health Officer Andy Robertson has told a parliamentary inquiry his health advice to ease the border policy had not been taken up by the government.
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English billionaire Sir Richard Branson has called on Australia to become a world leader in the renewable energy space, saying that "if you do the right thing, you'll find in the years to come you'll get the benefits".
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Jetstar has cancelled all flights from Perth to other Australian capitals through March as uncertainty hangs over when Premier Mark McGowan will bring down WA’s hard border.
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“Every other country around the world is learning to live with COVID, and it seems that in Queensland and Western Australia there’s a denial of the reality that we need to do that.”
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"People who suggest we should bring down the hard border with the east too soon are just being irresponsible with the health of West Australians," the Premier said.
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A family of asylum seekers who were forced to leave their home in the Queensland town of Biloela will be given a pathway to become Australian residents under.
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WA iron ore magnate Andrew Forrest's Minderoo Foundation has bought 90 tonnes of medical supplies from Chinese suppliers, which will be flown into Perth to be distributed across the state and then Australia.
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WA Premier Mark McGowan has urged Prime Minister Scott Morrison to recall national cabinet to discuss federal border arrangements, vaccine roll-out, and the United Kingdom variant of the coronavirus.
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BYE CORONA: Western Australia has no active coronavirus cases, including in hotel quarantine, for the first time since the pandemic arrived on our doorstep in February 2020.
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The benefit of booster shots across the population of Western Australia would start to be offset by waning vaccine protection rates at the end of March, according to advice from the state’s Chief Health Officer to Premier Mark McGowan.
A Perth mining millionaire who lives above the Raffles Hotel has lost his final legal bid to have the iconic pub's beer garden closed at night over complaints it is too noisy and preventing him from enjoying his $2.7m apartment.
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ruckman Scott Lycett has confirmed he will be leaving the club at the end of the season to join Port Adelaide Football Club. More to come.
The WA government has had a win in the first stage of its border war with Clive Palmer after the Federal Court found the 'hard border' strategy was the most effective method of keeping coronavirus out of the state.
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WA Opposition Leader Liza Harvey wants WA to relax restrictions on pubs, restaurants and cafes by lifting the number of permitted patrons from 20 to 100 and abolishing the four-square-metre rule.
A Perth woman who hid in a Victorian truck to sneak into Western Australia without quarantining has been jailed for six months.
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Opposition home affairs spokeswoman Kristina Keneally has booked her own flight to visit a Tamil family held in immigration detention after a government approved committee trip was cancelled at the last minute by Defence Minister Peter Dutton.
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At the heart of the Liberals' New Energy Jobs Plan lies a renewable energy “mega-project” encompassing wind and solar energy, hydrogen production, as well as a revived steel industry.
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The humble Corona could be the saviour of Western Australia's barley market after grain co-operative CBH group farewelled its first ever shipment to Mexico from Albany Port on Sunday.
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After posing with Rottnest’s famous wildlife, the Spanish team rode e-bikes to Little Parakeet Bay to enjoy a beach barbecue showcasing WA’s delicious fresh caught local seafood.
A Perth inner-city block will be transformed into an apartment tower for rough sleepers as part of a multi-million dollar bid by the state government to address homelessness in the CBD.
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A deeply unpopular plan by a Norwegian engineering company to fabricate 10-kilometre pipelines and tow them through Ningaloo Marine Park for use at offshore oil rigs has been canned.
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The WA government is investigating if it is possible to charge people who made “grossly irresponsible” decisions to travel overseas when the COVID-19 crisis was already evident, to recoup the cost of their quarantine.
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A two-decade legal battle has concluded with the Ngarrawanji people finally recognised as the native title holders of an area in Western Australia's East Kimberley region.
WA Premier Mark McGowan announces war-time measures including border controls and exiling people to Rottnest Island for quarantined isolation
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West Australian Premier Mark McGowan says the Morrison government should let a Tamil asylum-seeker family detained on Christmas Island settle permanently in Australia.
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WA will lock down its border even further to Victoria from midnight tonight, with only transport and freight workers permitted to enter, as well as those granted special permission by WA Police.
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The organiser of a New Year’s Eve party at a CBD bar shut down by police and the venue’s licensee have been ordered to hand in their passports and not leave the state as they face potential prison terms.
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The extraordinary international rescue effort to save the Thai soccer team trapped in the Tham Luang cave complex has successfully concluded, with all 12 boys and their assistant coach have been safely freed.
The newly installed shark barrier at Cottesloe Beach has already been infiltrated, with a sneaky seal finding its way into the supposedly safe enclosure.
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The parents of British ex-pat Danny Hodgson have praised hospital staff after the soccer prodigy was moved out of intensive care at Royal Perth Hospital after a 59-day ordeal.
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OPINION: Now before you start – yes I’m a one-eyed West Coast fan and yes I’m a woman. Two points that I’m sure many of you will think give me no authority to have an opinion on what occurred at Optus Stadium yesterday.
City of Perth Lord Mayor and Seven West Media employee Basil Zempilas has confirmed in his employer’s newspaper that he will join the Liberal Party and nominate for preselection for the seat of Churchlands.