4 d. ago Future of $86 million WA election contract up for discussion after October

WA’s elections boss will sit down with the recruitment agency tasked with hiring workers for the trouble-plagued 2025 poll after the local government elections in October.

Politics

5 d. ago How Great Koala park can be a win for environment and local workers

There are solid economic arguments behind the state government’s move to declare a new national park – provided the federal government also gets on board.

Society

6 d. ago Three reasons Minns backed the full Great Koala National Park

The state government has revealed its thinking behind declaring a 176,000 hectare reserve on the state’s North Coast, as local industry and unions express their fury.

Politics

7 d. ago A promise kept: The risky creation of the Great Koala National Park

Advocates for the new national park on the Mid North Coast will be relieved that the full 176,000 hectares of state forest will be included, but the timber industry will be furious.

Politics

7 d. ago ‘Conservation outcomes don’t get much bigger than this’: Great Koala National Park announced

A moratorium on logging will commence on Monday, while final legislation to create the park will await a federal decision on whether the state can earn carbon credits for protecting forest.

Politics

2 w. ago The fix for this contaminated Sydney park was called cheap and shoddy. It went ahead anyway

The plan to solve gas build-up at a highly contaminated site went ahead despite it failing to win the support of the state’s senior environmental adviser.

Politics