Latest news and comment on the Australian state of Western Australia
August 2024
Sportblog
Western Bears can thrive in Perth as NRL learn lessons from darker times
Linda Reynolds had ‘heated’ debate with staff about calling police after Brittany Higgins’ alleged rape, court hears
‘How did I get here? I came from a good home’: the violent patterns that haunt Indigenous women
Linda Reynolds’ former chief of staff may not be able to give evidence in defamation trial, court hears
‘Tough year’: Seven’s profits plunge 69% amid allegations of toxic work culture
Kirby Bentley on her aunty's murder: 'He stabbed her 17 times while she was holding their daughter'
Parallel lives: Indigenous women united by murder, driven by desperation for change
Claims of government cover-up after Brittany Higgins’ alleged rape ‘completely and utterly false’, Scott Morrison says
Linda Reynolds believed Lehrmann rape trial was politically motivated, psychologist tells defamation trial
Two women and baby dead after ute rolls in WA
John Howard, Malcolm Turnbull and former premiers join call for ban on gambling ads
Natsiaa 2024: Noli Rictor wins $100,000 award for ‘truly majestic’ painting
Ex-Labor senator Fatima Payman appoints ‘preference whisperer’ Glenn Druery as chief of staff
Clear Air
Western Australia’s EPA has made a big call on a major gas expansion. Will state and federal governments back it up?
Adam Morton
Finally! Good news from a coral reef
EPA deals ‘major blow’ to Woodside’s multibillion-dollar gas drilling plan at Browse basin
Brittany Higgins and husband schemed to ‘ambush’ Linda Reynolds, Liberal senator’s lawyer tells defamation trial
July 2024
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Melbourne legionnaires’ disease outbreak grows – as it happened
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Technicolour skies glow across Australia and NZ as solar flares trigger aurora australis
Observations of spectacular southern lights phenomenon recorded from Tasmania and Melbourne to Western Australia
The other petrostates
Australia’s north-west reefs teem with life – but they are also at the centre of a massive fossil fuel expansion
Woodside’s designs on the country’s largest untapped gas basin around Scott Reef are, some say, just another example of fossil fuel companies getting their way in what has become a petrostate