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Profit ‘aspiration’ or target? WA energy minister cops grilling over future of Synergy
Amber-Jade Sanderson labelled attempts to return the state-owned energy utility to a profit-earning entity as an “aspiration”, before quickly correcting herself.
- Michael Philipps
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Your five-minute guide to the winners and losers in this year’s WA budget
We break down all the winners and losers from this year’s state budget, including a $100 fuel payment, and the return of student allowances.
- Holly Thompson
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- WA budget
WA drivers get $100 to top up their tanks under $1 billion of budget sweeteners
Every West Australian driver will receive a $100 “fuel support payment”, as the state posted its eighth straight operating surplus of $3.5 billion.
- Hamish Hastie
WA Liberals claim victory after Labor ‘backflip’ on education trust
The WA opposition is claiming victory after the state government set aside almost $40 million for targeted upgrades and maintenance in public schools.
- Michael Philipps
Rio Tinto forgoes delivery of 8 million litres of diesel to grow WA stockpile
Premier Roger Cook said he received the unsolicited fuel offer from Rio Tinto’s iron ore chief executive Matthew Holcz earlier this week.
- Hamish Hastie
‘Appropriately transparent’: Cook’s promise over secret Crown racetrack land deal
Negotiations have been shrouded in secrecy since they began last year, but 3.5 hectares of the parcel are crucial for the southern portion of the racetrack.
- Hamish Hastie
Ex-WA Labor MP accuses party of pandering to ‘vested interests’
Chris Tallentire, the MP for Gosnells for 16 years, has criticised the Cook government in the past but has now taken his gripes to a national level.
- Hamish Hastie
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- Petrol prices
WA mining contractor stands down FIFO workers amid fuel shortage
The average price of unleaded fuel in Perth reached 229 cents per litre, up from 155.8 cents per litre this time last month.
- Hamish Hastie
‘Robbing Peter to pay Paul’: WA women’s mental health beds to be used for aged care patients
The Cook government’s winter health strategy will see the number of women’s mental health beds at the Cockburn Health facility shrink by one-third, according to a leaked letter.
- Hamish Hastie
Sandipan Dhar’s father frustrated by health sector response in quest for justice
March 24 will mark two years since Sandipan died from a curable blood cancer at Joondalup Health Campus just shy of his second birthday.
- Hamish Hastie