Now, more than ever, Western Australia needs capable, effective and forceful Opposition, writes The Western Warrior. And what are we getting? Spineless, clueless, and directionless dross.
Politics / Australia / WA
WA crime commission: a fine, not-so-fine performance
The Brian Burke scandal cost three ministers their jobs, saw two MPs kicked out of the ALP and even reached to the Howard government. So who did the CCC put away yesterday? Nobody, writes The Western Warrior.
Health departments are not equipped for the new focus on prevention
Prevention is the new black in health policy. But do our politicians really understand prevention and are our health departments well equipped to understand and implement this new focus?
Turnbull takes his potent template to the west
Whatever his current polling woes, in Malcolm Turnbull, the Liberal Party may just have found a potent template for its political direction and indeed, its very future, writes The Western Warrior.
Turnbull in a Wild West shoot out
Malcolm Turnbull may have headed over to the WA Liberal faithful to discuss ETS negotiations, but they didn’t want to hear it, with all but one voting for no ETS negotiations pre Copenhagen. Now what for the West?
If I were a Carpenter…would you vote for me anyway?
The inglorious departure of former WA Premier Alan Carpenter has left some curious characters fighting to replace him, writes the Western Warrior.
Carpenter moves on, MacTiernan calls his bluff
According to former WA planning minister Alannah MacTiernan, Labor might have won the last state election if not for its overtly negative election campaign strategy, writes Lawrence Apps.
Should party leadership or local members decide safe seats?
Safe seats are an opportunity to elect someone bright and controversial. However, state leaders being able to override preselection committee candidates are affecting the candidates selected, writes Anna Winter.
Catania’s WA bombshell reflects a sick ALP
The culture of the Labor Party in the west is battered and broken with Vince Catania’s defection to the Nationals, and things don’t look like recovering any time soon.
MPs to India: an unofficial parliamentary delegation to visit the Dalai Lama
What does one give a simple Buddhist monk for his 74th birthday? The Federal Member for Fremantle Melissa Parke writes on her recent travels to India.
SA & WA Newspolls: Rann and Barnett on top
Sometime back yonder, the latest South Australian and WA Newspoll State politics quarterly estimates were released onto the Newspoll public database. Here’s what they’re saying.
Akerman: Green win signals mayhem for Labor
Labor has only itself to blame for the Greens’ success in Fremantle.
Jump to the Left, step to the Right
Conservative columnists try to get their heads around the Greens’ win in the Fremantle by-election.
Freo by-election: the start of big things for the Greens
The Fremantle by-election was only the second time the Greens had won a state or federal lower house seat outside of Tasmania.
Greens score first state lower house seat
Crack open the organic, carbon-offset champagne: The Greens have clocked up their first lower house seat in any state parliament, in Western Australia.
Labor vs Greens: Fremantle casts another vote
The lid was officially lifted overnight on the worst-kept secret in Western Australian politics, writes PollBludger William Bowe.
