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Two years of failures following McGowan Government’s re-election
The National-Liberal Opposition has called into question the competence of the McGowan Labor Government as it fails to deliver on the basics, two years on from the State Election.Opposition Leader...
WA Families hit with cost of living rise again as the Premier maintains his massive budget windfalls
The Shadow Treasurer Dr Steve Thomas has repeated his call that the State Government should be doing more to help families cope with the rapidly rising cost of living in the May State budget given...
Liberals call for emergency summit with home building sector stakeholders
WA Liberal Leader Libby Mettam and Shadow Minister for Housing Steve Martin are calling on PremierMark McGowan to convene an emergency summit of all stakeholders in the WA building sector in a bid...
New data shows WA home builds have returned to pre stimulus levels
Figures released today by the Australian Bureau of Statistics (ABS) show new building starts in Western Australia have returned to the same level as June 2020 when the McGowan Government...
WA health system needs critical review as McGowan Government turns blind eye to crisis
The Opposition has welcomed the Australian Nursing Federation’s support for a Royal Commission into the WA health system and believes it is the only way the dysfunction within the system can be...
Magistrate’s decision reveals Quigley’s bail reforms fall short
The Opposition has raised concerns about the effectiveness of recent changes to the Bail Amendment Act after a recent court decision to grant bail to a man accused of indecently dealing with an...
Health Minister out of touch on progress of critical recommendations to improve PCH
The Health Minister’s admission key recommendations to improve Perth Children’s Hospital had not been implemented despite earlier assurances show the Minister is clearly out of touch with what is...
Another financial report showing another big surplus
The Shadow Treasurer Dr Steve Thomas says the Premier’s attempts to hose down fiscal expectation and maintain his scare campaign on an impending downturn has again been undermined by the latest...
WAIT LISTS CONTINUE TO CLIMB WITH NO GOVERNMENT FUNDING INCREASES IN SIGHT
Shadow Minister for Early Childhood Education Donna Faragher is calling on the McGowan Labor Government to immediately increase funding to support the delivery of critical child development services...
Coroner implores State Government to properly fund hospitals
WA Coroner Sarah Linton has found that there was a possibility that Aishwarya Aswath may not have died had she received treatment when she first arrived at the Perth Children’s Hospital in April...
Money management obviously not the Premier’s strength
The McGowan Government’s need to extend the Treasurer’s Advance limit by $2.1 billion demonstrates that during the biggest fiscal boom in this, or any other state’s history, Labor cannot properly...
Regional and remote communities missing Target 120
New Community Services Minister Sabine Winton has floundered in Question Time this week when asked by Opposition Leader Shane Love for specifics about evident gaps in the McGowan Labor Government’s...
No certainty for timber businesses from Environment Minister
Environment Minister Rhys Whitby has refused to guarantee supply for local timber businesses past December 2023. In response to direct questions asked by Shadow Minister for Forestry Steve Martin,...
Opposition calls for ridiculous noise guidelines on basketball hoops to be scrapped
The Opposition Alliance has launched a petition calling on the McGowan Labor Government to scrap proposed guidelines which could prevent new outdoor basketball hoops being built in public parks...
Headworks fund provides no immediate relief for Western Australians facing housing crisis
The Opposition has welcomed the announcement of an Infrastructure Development Fund but says it will fail to bring any immediate relief to the thousands of Western Australians struggling to rent or...
Opposition welcomes inquiry into historical forced adoption
The National-Liberal Opposition has welcomed the State Government’s support of a parliamentary inquiry into historical forced adoptions in WA. Over the past two years, the Opposition has...
Opposition calls for greater scrutiny of mentally impaired accused law reforms
The Opposition is urging the McGowan Labor Government to stop treating Parliament as a rubber stamp as it seeks to rush the most significant changes to the state’s mentally impaired accused laws in...
ALBANESE REANNOUNCES COALITION ENERGY PLAN
The Prime Minister’s announcement in Port Hedland today is simply a re-hash of an announcement originally made by former Deputy Prime Minister Barnaby Joyce on March 2022 under the Coalition’s $7.1...