This Month
Home building slowdown fuels Perth’s rocketing price rises
Dwindling housing completions have helped fuel major increases in Perth’s property prices as developers warn most projects are not viable because of rising costs.
- Tom Rabe
Construction industry ‘much more respectful’ in WA
The Western Australian Labor government is unlikely to follow moves by eastern states to impose compulsory requirements for union agreements.
- Tom Rabe
‘The port would stop’: Fremantle workers threaten to walk off job
Western Australia’s largest container port could grind to a halt next week if a small group of key staff stop work over a pay dispute.
- Tom Rabe
June
‘Unique position’ secures WA thousands more skilled migrants
Perth property prices have soared amid unprecedented migration. Now WA Premier Roger Cook has landed a promise of thousands more migrants to build more homes.
- Tom Rabe
‘Extinction event’: WA builders blame government for overheating market
A $480 million government housing grant scheme has been blamed by West Australian builders for overheating the market and contributing to insolvencies.
- Tom Rabe
Strike unveils gas plant play, urges WA to green-light onshore exports
Strike Energy has announced a plan to build and operate a $160 million gas plant north of Perth.
- Tom Rabe
May
- Exclusive
- Mining Summit
Cook says magnetite will make WA the ‘California of Australia’
WA’s future in resources wasn’t just linked to battery minerals, but also to a different variety of iron ore largely overlooked by our mining industry: magnetite.
- Tom Rabe
‘Unprecedented’ migration blamed for jump in WA spending
Treasurer says the state government had been forced to spend more on education, housing and healthcare after 95,000 people moved to WA last year.
- Tom Rabe
WA Budget Winners and Losers
Households and prospective home buyers are expected to benefit from new spending measures, while there is no additional funding for farmers, and still no changes to the state’s payroll tax system.
- Updated
- Tom Rabe and Brad Thompson
- Updated
- WA budget
WA infrastructure spending goes ‘up another gear’
Premier Roger Cook has vowed to shift infrastructure spending “up another gear” as the state splashed billions on cost-of-living and housing, to absorb the record 95,000 people who moved west last year.
- Tom Rabe
Outer Perth ‘pain seats’ at risk as Albanese cocks ear to west
Federal Labor is bleeding votes in Western Australia that could cost it several key seats, pollsters warn.
- Tom Rabe
Landlords offered $5000 lure for housing fix
Amid a surge in Perth property prices, the WA government will give owners of vacant homes $5000 if they make them available for long-term renters.
- Tom Rabe
Minister was warned about radicalised teen before police shooting
A 16-year-old school boy shot dead by police in Perth over the weekend after a stabbing incident was part of a state-run deradicalisation program.
- Tom Rabe
- Exclusive
- WA budget
Fast and unpopular: Why running WA economy’s like driving for Red Bull
Treasurer Rita Saffioti says Western Australia is the Red Bull Formula 1 team of the states, as she prepares to hand down her first budget.
- Tom Rabe
- Exclusive
- WA budget
WA to raise iron ore projections in budget
The WA government will increase its long-term price assumptions for iron ore at this week’s state budget.
- Tom Rabe
April
The apartment supply conundrum behind Perth’s housing price surge
There’s plenty of demand and many projects approved, but sky-high construction costs have left developers asking for more government money.
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- Tom Rabe
March
Fresh from GST windfall, WA hands out payments of $250 per child
The WA government will hand out $100 million to families of school-aged children as part of a cost-of-living package, with no rules on how the cash is spent.
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- Tom Rabe and Samantha Hutchinson
WA Liberals promise to lift uranium ban, but remain wary of nuclear
WA Liberal leader Libby Mettam has vowed to overturn the state’s uranium mining ban if elected, but said the state isn’t ready for nuclear power.
- Tom Rabe
Nickel miners’ pain is gas market’s gain, says Woodside
Gas giant Woodside says Alcoa’s move to shutter a major WA alumina refinery paired with the state’s struggling nickel sector could create allay domestic gas supply concerns.
- Tom Rabe
Chilean lithium giant flags ‘aggressive’ Australian expansion
The chief executive of Chilean lithium giant SQM has described Western Australia as the next global “lithium bowl”.
- Tom Rabe
