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1 month ago | 
abc.net.au | Keane Bourke |Rhiannon Shine
WA Labor's Simone McGurk has claimed victory in seat of Fremantle, but her independent challenger Kate Hulett says it's too early to declare the race over. As of 6pm on Friday, Ms McGurk was 491 votes ahead of Ms Hulett on a two-party preferred basis. At about 6:20pm, WA Labor posted on social media declaring "it's official, Simone McGurk has been re-elected as the member for Fremantle". But Ms Hulett's team issued a statement shortly after, claiming the call was premature.
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1 month ago | 
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.
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1 month ago | 
abc.net.au | Andrew Chounding |Rosemary Murphy |Keane Bourke
WA Liberal candidate for Albany, Thomas Brough, has been referred to the State Administrative Tribunal for alleged professional misconduct. The referral related to comments Dr Brough made falsely linking the LGBQIA+ community with paedophiles. Dr Brough says the leak had been perpetrated by his political opponents and will not distract him from his campaign.
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2 months ago | 
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.
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Jan 13, 2025 | 
abc.net.au | Keane Bourke
The opening week-and-a-half of Labor's re-election campaign has had a clear and unsurprising focus: law and order. Of the party's 10 major announcements over the past week, four have been about trying to improve community safety through new laws. First came the pledge to crack down on hoons and anti-social behaviour, complete with a noise-sensitive camera trial and criminalising "posting and boasting" about crime online.
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Jan 7, 2025 | 
abc.net.au | Keane Bourke |Lauren Smith |Brianna Melville
WA Labor's family and domestic violence prevention funding pledge includes $27.1 million to build 18 new women's refuge units. A re-elected Labor government would also introduce harsher penalties for breaching family violence restraining orders. Advocates have welcomed the funding but the Liberals, who have their own policy on restraining orders, say it won't address the problem.
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Jan 7, 2025 | 
rnz.co.nz | Rhiannon Shine |Rebecca Trigger |Keane Bourke |Gian De Poloni
By Rhiannon Shine, Rebecca Trigger, Keane Bourke, Gian De Poloni
Three people have been seriously injured in a seaplane crash off Rottnest Island, a popular tourist destination east of Perth.
Another three people on board the plane are still unaccounted for, and a seventh person was rescued without injury.
The ABC has confirmed the seaplane was brand new and had only been flying for a little over a week, while emergency services continue to assist on Rottnest.
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Dec 19, 2024 | 
abc.net.au | Keane Bourke
With housing a key battleground in next year’s election, the major parties are already honing their pitches. WA’s rental vacancy rate is slowly returning to a more normal level, but house prices are still expected to continue rising next year after going up about 22 per cent over the last 12 months alone. So what are the major parties promising to do about it, and how do those ideas stack up with reality?
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Dec 18, 2024 | 
abc.net.au | Keane Bourke
Nobody needs another flash report to tell them how bad the cost of living is. A supermarket receipt will do the job just fine. It’s why the next few months of campaigning for your votes — by both state and federal politicians — will be all about bringing prices down, or at least promising to do so. The reason pollies will have to spend so long talking about it is simple. What they've done so far hasn't been enough.
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Dec 16, 2024 | 
abc.net.au | Keane Bourke |Rhiannon Shine |Nicolas Perpitch
Loading... At the last election, WA Labor redefined the idea of a landslide by obliterating the already wounded opposition. Mark McGowan rode a tidal wave of public support for his hardline COVID-19 stance, taking control of both houses of parliament. Never before in Western Australia has a state government had so much political power with so much wealth at its disposal. Heading towards the March 2025 election, what does Labor have to show for it? Loading...
