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Woodside Petroleum is Australia’s largest producer of liquefied natural gas (LNG).
Gas

Big banks face climate heat over Woodside’s ‘carbon bomb’ Pluto gas plant

NAB, Westpac and ANZ have drawn stinging criticism from environmentalists for helping to fund a private equity group’s stake in the expansion of Woodside’s controversial gas plant in Western Australia.

  • by Miki Perkins and Nick Toscano
WA Premier Mark McGowan at The Windsor Hotel last year. The Windsor was one of the first venues to require proof of vaccination in Perth.
Vaccination

WA hospitality staff bear brunt of the noisy minority over jab mandate

  • by Cameron Myles
Texts between Mark McGowan and the WA Attorney-General regarding Clive Palmer’s border challenge will be aired in court.
Mark McGowan

WA government loses bid to keep texts about Clive Palmer case secret

  • by Heather McNeill
Perth house prices could continue to rise as borders reopen.
Sales

When WA border comes down, will property prices go up?

  • by Melissa Heagney
A bushfire watch and act has been issued for residents in the Shire of Chittering.
Updated
Bushfires

Karrakatta bushfire warning downgraded as Perth hits 42C

  • by Daile Cross
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Former Victorian Health Department secretary Kym Peake has been appoined the chair of a review into governance in the WA health system.
Coronavirus pandemic

Ex-Victorian bureaucrat who oversaw ill-fated hotel quarantine program to chair review of WA health system

The former boss of Victoria’s health department, who resigned amid an inquiry into the state’s bungled hotel quarantine system, will be on a panel reviewing the governance of WA’s health system.

  • by Peter de Kruijff
Health Minister Roger Cook with former staffer Sanja Spasojevic.
ALP

Former staffer urges Deputy Premier to ‘come clean’ on leave forms after legal blow

The PSAB decision was a blow to her case, but Sanja Spasojevic is now calling on Roger Cook to appear during her appeal voluntarily to ensure it was ‘fair and just’.

  • by Hamish Hastie
Paul Whyte was jailed for 12 years for his fraud.
Audit quality

Smoking out the rats: WA forensic auditors uncover potential public sector corruption

  • by Hamish Hastie
WA has recorded one new local COVID-19 case.
Updated
Coronavirus pandemic

WA records one new COVID-19 case as vaccine mandate deadline looms

  • by Hamish Hastie
The Labor party has never been so popular in WA thanks to Mark McGowan and now the party’s finances are just as high as the premier’s approval rating.
Analysis
Political donations

WA Labor party pulls in record $12m in revenue

  • by Peter de Kruijff

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