Anyone who thought our methamphetamine crisis was tapering off needed to spend Monday hearing witnesses give evidence to a committee of Parliament.
Gary Adshead
Phil Edman soft-soaps his visit to a Tokyo massage house.
Most West Australians wouldn’t know Craig Peacock if they tripped over him in a Japanese bathhouse. But many of us have been blindly paying for his lavish Tokyo lifestyle for years.
Asked to do a podcast for the Claremont trial, I went through a collection of old folders and was reminded of this sad chapter.
State Parliament returned on Tuesday and wasted no time going from the ridiculous to the bizarre.
Premier Mark McGowan has had plenty of fun in Parliament dismissing security concerns about his Government’s decision to award Chinese telco giant Huawei a $136m rail communications contract.
All those so-called “experts” pushing for pill testing at music festivals should go and live in whatever parallel universe their brains came from.
I have always pondered why people talk about these crustaceans as if they are some kind of precious sunken treasure.
There is one stand-out reason some senior WA Liberals are becoming more and more concerned about the evangelical incursion into their political party.
Financial balance sheets make True North — the latest evangelical enterprise with members showing an interest in Liberal Party politics — look more like a booming business than a charitable church.
Mike Nahan has displayed shoddy political judgment, represents the unwanted baggage of the Barnett government and is unable to cut through to voters.
Premier Mark McGowan was too quick to shoot the messenger last week and look for excuses around issues confronting Labor MP Pierre Yang.
Mark McGowan has replaced transparency and accountability with a new word — discretionary.
When you put your foot on a hose pipe the pressure builds and builds.
When Mark McGowan took over from Eric Ripper as WA Labor leader in 2012, he came out swinging on an issue he felt his party needed to shake off in order to move forward.
Hotels and hospitality bugle Bradley Woods clearly believes the Liberal Party under Mike Nahan will be in the political wilderness well beyond 2021.
With no improvement to the number of tourists coming here from overseas perhaps it is time we faced some home truths and the McGowan Government started to think big.
The partial collapse of a Rottnest Island jetty last week was not an accident. It was an accident waiting to happen.
They were off and racing in State Parliament as all sides of politics vied for Sketch’s affections on the vexed issue of selling the TAB.
Trying to follow the political discourse on whether the TAB in WA should be sold to a private bidder has been like trying to pin the tail on a donkey blindfolded after a bottle of red.
The State Government — confronted with the latest figures of meth use in WA — will soon become embroiled in the fight over the Shalom House drug rehabilitation centre in Henley Brook.
Treasurer Ben Wyatt’s annual report on the state of WA’s finances proves what goes up must come down — with emphasis on the word “must”.
It would be difficult to locate a more futile government document than the one released by Education Minister Sue Ellery prior to last Christmas.
On the issue of transparency and accountability in government, Premier Mark McGowan is trying to have his cake and eat it.
