Jake Sturmer

1 week ago | abc.net.au | Jake Sturmer

The UN looks set to knock back Australia's bid to add a large area of ancient rock art in WA's north to the World Heritage list, citing concerns about emissions degrading the Aboriginal carvings near Karratha. The petroglyphs on the Burrup Peninsula, known as the Murujuga Cultural Landscape, are approximately 40,000 years old and the former Federal Environment Minister Tanya Plibersek began the process to nominate them to the list in February 2023. But that bid now appears in doubt.

Mar 6, 2025 | abc.net.au | Keane Bourke |Jake Sturmer

Loading... Western Australian elections are won and lost in Perth. The vast majority of voters live in these 47 metropolitan seats. This is what Perth looked like in 2013 with Colin Barnett's Liberal government in power. And this is how it looks heading into tomorrow's state election. Scroll up and down to see the scale of the task ahead for the Liberal party to restore its grip on power.

Feb 5, 2025 | abc.net.au | Keane Bourke |Jake Sturmer

For the first time, near real-time disclosure of political donations is showing who's funding the 2025 WA election. We've crunched the numbers on where the money is coming from to create this live dashboard which will be updated throughout the campaign. Party-by Party Top Industries Top Donors How this page worksNote: some charts may be blank where no donations have been recorded for the selected date range.

Aug 12, 2024 | abc.net.au | Jake Sturmer |Phoebe Pin

The WA government will change long-held legislation in order to seize City of Perth land for the construction of a new primary school. It marks an escalation in a dispute between the state government and the City and Lord Mayor Basil Zempilas over the future of the site. Education Minister Tony Buti hopes the new school will be operational by 2029, and has blamed the City of Perth for the project delay.

May 30, 2024 | abc.net.au | David Weber |Jake Sturmer

Hundreds of trucks and farm vehicles are snarling through Perth's CBD honking horns in a large-scale rally to oppose the end of the live sheep export trade. Traffic has moved to a crawl on some of Perth's major roads as trucks enter the city from four outer-suburban locations. The action was called after the Federal Government introduced legislation to formalise the end date for the export of live sheep by sea from Australia, effective from May 2028.