Labor has announced a $14.2 million election sweetener in the prized seat of Scarborough, promising to deliver a major service for free if re-elected.
Joe Spagnolo
Labor is promising to spend $10.4 million to help diabetics self-manage their conditions in a bid to prevent hospitalisations if re-elected in the March 8 election.
Claire Sadler
‘We should be expecting better.’
Jessica Page and Oliver Lane
Labor MPs and candidates are campaigning on taxpayer-funded electoral sweeteners with more than $65 million worth of small funding commitments announced since January.
Dylan Caporn
Fool me once, shame on you. Fool me twice, shame on me. It’s up to voters to tell the difference if the Liberal party can’t.
Jessica Page
The major party candidates putting their money where their mouth is have been revealed.
Jake Dietsch
WA Labor has promised to spend more than $200,000 on facilities in Denmark if Warren-Blackwood MLA Jane Kelsbie is re-elected at the upcoming State election in March.
Georgia Campion
The election launch on Sunday - understood to be in central Perth - will feature Labor luminaries including Mark McGowan, but the Prime Minister will instead be in Tasmania.
Darren Spackman is now considering whether to run as an independent in the Kimberley seat after The West Australian exposed the expletive-filled rant.
The WA Nationals will rely on Treasury to cost their election commitments, leaving the Liberals as the only major party not to use the service.
Oliver Lane
Education Minister Tony Buti has refused to say if he’s aware of other anti-Semitic incidents at a school where a teacher paid tribute to an assassinated Hamas leader.
Ahead of a Federal election set to become a furious battle over the cost of living and the nation’s economic future, the Treasurer will meet voters and business owners in Perth.
Katina Curtis
Both Anthony Albanese and Peter Dutton are set to shun their State parties’ election launches, as they prioritise east coast campaigning for the looming federal poll.
Dylan Caporn and Katina Curtis
Geraldton independent candidate Shane Van Styn says he has no malice towards the Nationals despite putting Liberal candidate Tim Milnes at number two on his how to vote card.
Matthew Paddick
The arrest of an accused domestic violence fugitive in Geraldton was proof of Operation Regional Shield in action, according to the police minister.
The Cook Labor Government will invest $7.7 million towards redeveloping and upgrading Coolgardie’s main street if re-elected.
Neil Watkinson
Geraldton independent candidate Shane Van Styn says he has no issues with naming and shaming repeat offenders and is “willing to take some of the heat” if any problems arise.
The Nationals have made a number of pledges to appeal to Western Australia’s north on Thursday, promising a new ministerial portfolio and insurance rebates.
The Boyanup saleyards could be on the move if the Nationals WA form government next month with a $6 million package to create an agribusiness precinct in the South West.
Amber Lilley
A Liberal candidate has resigned, moments after The West Australian exposed his comments about wanting to ‘hang’ young criminals.
Jessica Page, Cain Andrews and Jake Dietsch
WA’s minister for health has promised the Great Southern’s biggest hospital will have an extra 30 beds by early 2027 if WA Labor is re-elected on March 8.
The West previously revealed the Liberal candidate for Perth was a former One Nation candidate and staffer.
Labor has launched a double pronged attack on the Liberal party over costings and a skills shortage, days out from the start of voting in WA.
WA Liberal leader Libby Mettam has accused the State Government of attempting to bury an unfavourable report ahead of the State election.
Hannah Cross
