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Health Minister Roger Cook.
WA election

AMA doctors say WA can’t cope with COVID outbreak, minister dismisses report

Health Minister Roger Cook has dismissed a survey which found 63 per cent of Western Australian AMA doctors believed the state’s health system could not cope with a significant COVID-19 outbreak.

  • by Lauren Pilat
The two men are believed to have been fishing off rocks at Cheynes Beach Saturday afternoon.
Missing person

Search continues for missing man off WA’s southern coastline 

  • by Lauren Pilat
WA Liberal leader Zak Kirkup’s pre-election concession was just one of the setbacks for Scott Morrison this week.
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WA election

Federal Libs blast Kirkup’s ‘lemon’ green energy policy

  • by Hamish Hastie
Perth  hotel quarantine report finds ventilation ‘biggest risk’  
Coronavirus pandemic

Perth  hotel quarantine report finds ventilation ‘biggest risk’  

  • by Heather McNeill and Peter de Kruijff
Perth hoteliers at centre of homeless housing scandal have properties raided
Homelessness

Perth hoteliers at centre of homeless housing scandal have properties raided

  • by Mia Egerton-Warburton
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Politics

Prime Minister Scott Morrison.
WA election

Liberals dealt a blow with Scott Morrison to skip WA election appearance

The news will come as a blow to some Liberal Party members who had hoped a high-profile visit from the PM would give the party’s flagging campaign a shot in the arm.

  • by Hamish Hastie
Premier Mark McGowan is laughing all the way to election day as Opposition Leader Zak Kirkup says his party cannot win.
Analysis
WA election

‘Winston’ Kirkup throws the war but faces hard task convincing Liberals he wants to win the battles

Opposition Leader Zak Kirkup has tried to turn the election on its head with two weeks to go but desperate new strategies have done more to alienate colleagues than slow the McGowan juggernaut.

  • by Peter de Kruijff
Opposition planning spokesman Tjorn Sibma.
WA election

‘Sense of inevitability’ lingers over WA property developer donation ban debate

  • by Peter de Kruijff and Emma Young
Premier Mark McGowan and Opposition Leader Zak Kirkup have ruled out scrapping political Facebook advertising in the middle of the election.
WA election

Major parties ramp up Facebook ad spend as clock ticks down to WA election

  • by Peter de Kruijff
City of Nedlands Mayor Cilla De Lacy has resigned from her position.
Local council

Western suburbs mayor exits, leaving Nedlands leadership vacuum

  • by Peter de Kruijff

Crime & Courts

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Education

All Saints College students and teachers working together to find new measures of success.
Education

A new measure of success for WA students beyond NAPLAN and ATAR

  • by Lauren Pilat
Analysis
Education

Wellbeing. Prestige. Academic performance: What drives Perth parents to spend big on their child’s education

  • by Lauren Pilat
Education

Masks mandatory as WA students head back to the classroom

  • by Daile Cross

Health

Australasian College for Emergency Medicine WA chairman Dr Peter Allely is calling for state government action to address overcrowding and ambulance ramping at hospital emergency departments. Picture: Supplied
Opinion
Hospitals

Another Perth hospital needed as our sick and vulnerable are now at grave risk

  • by Peter Allely
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Courts

‘We have failed you’: WA judge finds mentally ill teenager not guilty of murdering his family

  • by Heather McNeill
Courts

‘She was screaming make it stop’: Dad tells of daughter’s reaction to ‘pot brownies sold at Perth cafe’

  • by Heather McNeill

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