Thousands of government documents are unsecured and at risk in WA due to a lack of shelf space in the records office. 3rd Degree student journalist Karma Barndon reports.
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iSentia Index: schools, trains dominate as Rudd fades
The Greens are the model supporters of the government’s education and high-speed rail plans, but Liberal state premiers are having none of it. And what’s happened to Kevin Rudd?
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Richard Farmer’s chunky bits
The gender bias in scientific studies, plus other political issues of the day.
READ MOREHold the funeral for WA Labor, it’s not so bad after all
Yes, WA Labor lost. But the party didn’t lose big, and it’s very difficult to dislodge a first-term government. The result will not be the end of WA Labor, and Mark McGowan will be in a stronger position next time around.
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Toxic Labor brand cost WA’s Mark McGowan his chance
While WA Labor leader Mark McGowan out-campaigned the Premier, Labor suffered a huge swing. Former WA Liberal (and Independent Liberal) senator Noel Crichton-Browne points the finger at federal Labor — and the Nationals.
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WA poll: Barnett restarts the cycle with a thumping win
Colin Barnett’s Liberal government in Western Australia won a decisive majority in the state poll on Saturday, marginalising the Nationals and giving federal Labor headaches.
READ MOREWA election: Barnett boosts majority, Labor hungover
The hangover for Labor after the Western Australian election is crippling. Crikey’s polling guru examines the wreckage and the key gains for the returned Barnett government.
READ MOREWA election: Barnett will win, and by more than a sniff
WA Labor leader Mark McGowan is personally popular, but that won’t be enough to get his party over the line in tomorrow’s state election. But is a vote for Barnett a vote for Troy Buswell?
READ MOREWA pollies square off … over who hates Canberra more
WA is in a fit of pique and feeling pretty hard done by, writes former Western Australian Callum Denness. Its politicians want nothing to do with eastern elitism and populist taxes, thank you very much.
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Sentia Media Index: Colin Barnett ramps up WA campaign
Western Australian pollies are on the move, with Premier Colin Barnett back in the Top 20 and challenger Mark McGowan hanging on in the last spot.
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Labor insider: Barnett’s re-election not entirely certain
The Liberal campaign in WA has been a chaotic mess, with Colin Barnett’s Labor challenger Mark McGowan running well. Think the Liberals will be handily re-elected? Look closer, says former Labor adviser Luke Walladge.
READ MOREWhen think tanks meet conservative parties
Crikey readers weigh in on the issues of the day.
READ MORESeagulls and togas in the race to run the quarry
It’s just a few weeks until WA heads to the polls. Local boy David Ritter outlines the political — and cultural — landscape of the boom mining state. Five dollar flat white, anyone?
READ MOREEmperor Barnett challenged by the photo-bombing mayor
Ugly politics was matched by ugly glares as a local mayor and the WA premier fall out in Perth’s most prestigious postcodes. Freelance journalist Kerry Faulkner reports.
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Colin Barnett can’t even buy a headline on the east coast
Lashing out at the federal parliament, WA Premier Colin Barnett still can’t generate a national headline, writes journalism student Sally-Anne Curtain.
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Aboriginal landowners clash with government over outback dish
Aboriginal landowners who signed an agreement to host a powerful radio-telescope site three years ago are still fighting for the promised assistance to their community, writes Kerry Faulkner from Perth.
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Barnett’s GST call offers a clue to federal future
Does Colin Barnett know something about Tony Abbott’s plans for tax reform that the rest of us don’t? Rob Burgess of Business Spectator examines.
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How will the mining tax be fought in the High Court?
Mining giants as well as some state governments are threatening to take the tax to the High Court, claiming that it discriminates against states and will unfairly cost businesses. Bianca Kerr asks constitutional law experts how the High Court fight would go.
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Woodside’s Kimberley: red dirt, pristine coastline … and heavy security
When West Australian Premier Colin Barnett said last week that he welcomed the announcement of a permanent US military presence in northern Australia), his words are worth considering in a wider context.
READ MOREWA government weighing up GM wheat options
The WA Department of Agriculture and Food’s new Merredin Research Centre is part of the state government’s $9 million New Genes for New Environments project and it’s developing genetically modified (GM) wheat and barley, writes Lisa Roth, a journalist with 3rd Degree.
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CHOGM: Barnett’s evocation of security on the money, but target is not
People don’t feel that you’re serving and protecting them when you’re taking to their neighbours with a baton.
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Newspoll: 57-43 to Liberal-National in WA
The latest quarterly Newspoll of state voting intention for Western Australia shows no change on two-party preferred, with the Liberal-National (“don’t call us the Coalition!”) government still holding a commanding 57-43 lead, reports William Bowe.
READ MOREKimberley: jurassic-type thinking on heritage listing that isn’t
The supposed heritage listing for the West Kimberley has some rather large holes in it, writes Crikey naturalist Lionel Elmore.
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Sceptics on the menu at Rinehart’s
luncheon
Billionaire mining magnate Gina Rinehart hosted a lunch with WA Premier Colin Barnett with a presentation from a prominent Australian climate-change sceptic, writes Graham Readfearn.
READ MOREWarning, NSW: companies like Serco can give privatisation a bad name
Privatisation is firmly on the agenda of the NSW election campaign. But leaders and voters should look to Western Australia for some of the problems it brings.
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