Your top WA budget questions answered: Our reporters explain the details
Over the past few days, you’ve been sending through your burning budget questions. Here to answer them is WAtoday state politics reporter Hamish Hastie and business reporter Peter Milne.
- by Hamish Hastie and Peter Milne
Latest
What West Australians think of the state budget
Amid all the chest-beating spin from the government, each line item in the budget will have a real impact on West Australians. So we asked them what they thought.
- by Hamish Hastie, Sarah Brookes, Holly Thompson, Jesinta Burton and Peter Milne
Opinion
WA budget
WA is finding it hard to admit it has a spending problem
Most of WA’s increased spend is demand-driven thanks to roaring population growth placing pressure on housing, education and health budgets.
- by Hamish Hastie
Updated
WA budget
Stamp duty relief as Cook, Saffioti tackle housing in WA budget
Stamp duty relief was a key announcement in Premier Roger Cook and Treasurer Rita Saffioti’s first budget, which Cook said had something for everybody.
- by Hamish Hastie
Analysis
WA budget
$3.4 billion drip feed means no surprises expected in Saffioti’s first budget
This budget will be Treasurer Rita Saffioti’s first after she was elevated to the position in June last year following the retirement of former treasurer and premier Mark McGowan.
- by Hamish Hastie
Why didn’t WA’s program to counter violent extremism work?
A shocking incident in Perth – which WA Police Commissioner Col Blanch said had “all the hallmarks” of a terrorist attack – has highlighted the difficulty of reversing radical ideologies.
- by Hamish Hastie
Updated
Crime
‘Radicalised teen’ shot dead by police in Willetton after stabbing
A “radicalised” teenage boy has been shot dead by police following an “extremely confronting” incident in Willetton on Saturday night.
- by Heather McNeill, Hamish Hastie and Rebecca Peppiatt
Updated
Police
WA’s top cop denies police ignored alleged murder victim’s triple-zero calls in days before her death
WA Police Commissioner Col Blanch has backed a police decision not to attend the Yangebup home of Joan Mary Drane 48 hours before her son allegedly murdered her.
- by Hamish Hastie
Exclusive
Crime
Commonwealth prosecutor feared detainee would reoffend before home invasion
A Commonwealth prosecutor twice raised fears a former immigration detainee would reoffend but did not oppose bail in the months before the man was accused of a brutal home invasion.
- by Heather McNeill, Angus Thompson and Hamish Hastie
Second WA detainee back before the courts after release under controversial High Court ruling
Kimbengere Gosoge is the second former immigration detainee to have allegedly reoffended soon after their controversial release under a High Court ruling last November.
- by Rebecca Peppiatt, Heather McNeill and Hamish Hastie
The phone call between Perth bashing victim and the immigration minister
The Perth grandmother bashed in her own home, allegedly by a former detainee, has taken on the Immigration Minister Andrew Giles over the chain of events prior to the attack.
- by Hamish Hastie and Jamie Freestone