Gary Adshead

On today's episode of At Close of Business, political editor Gary Adshead gives an on-the-ground view of candidates running across three key marginal electorates.

Three candidates with diverse backgrounds line up to contest three diverse electorates in WA that could be crucial to the outcome of the May poll.

One of the state's two deputy police commissioners, Gary Dreibergs, has ended his 40-year career and will not be in the running to replace the outgoing commissioner Chris Dawson.

Our political leaders need to show a united front on the China-Solomons deal rather that trying to outmuscle each other.

After having two goes at providing evidence in the McGowan versus Palmer defamation case, John Quigley has some clearing up to do closer to home.

Schedule set for English football frenzy in Perth as government confirms yesterday's Business News exclusive.

EXCLUSIVE: Legendary English Premier League team Manchester United will headline a four-club festival of football later this year.

CBD and Yagan Square are getting more cash to end decay.

WA will remain in a declared state of emergency until the "appropriate time" despite most public health measures being lifted on Friday.

The Child Protection Minister Simone McGurk has been in the headlines about dysfunction within the Department of Communities. Now, more than $100 million will boost funding.

Premier Mark McGowan has tested positive to COVID, after having a second PCR test while isolating at his Rockingham home.

On today's episode of At Close of Business, journalist Jordan Murray and political editor Gary Adshead discuss WA's unregulated tow truck industry.

A specialised unit inside Banksia Hill Detention Centre for juvenile offenders is in a state of crisis with acute staff shortages, regular breaches of human rights laws and an on-going threat from a group of detainees known as the "suicide squad".

Conflagrating ambulance ramping with the Omicron surge seems like a search for political cover.

The McGowan government has enlisted a "waste minimisation" group to help small business cope with the looming ban on many single-use plastic products.

Insurers and many inside the tow truck sector are calling for widespread reforms.

Most of Western Australia's remaining close contact and gathering rules will end at midnight, after the premier announced a suite of changes to COVID management.

Federal Labor leader Anthony Albanese has started day two of the election campaign admitting he "regrets" his performance on day one and plans to do a Taylor Swift and "shake it off".

Scott Morrison wanted a six-week election campaign believing it could expose any of Anthony Albanese's shortfalls. One day was enough.

On today's episode of At Close of Business, political editor Gary Adshead gives some insight into why the state's deputy premier has gone from policing COVID-19 to rebuilding WA's tourism industry.

Pressure mounts on attorney general over Palmer evidence.

From keeping people out of WA as health minister to luring them in under the tourism portfolio, Roger Cook has had a busy couple of years.

Updated: The court appearance of health sector supremo Kempton Cowan on child pornography charges is sending shockwaves through all sides of politics and across WA's business community.

WA's attorney general has blamed a "memory failure" and having to operate under "a lot of pressure" for giving incorrect evidence at the defamation trial between billionaire Clive Palmer and Premier Mark McGowan.

The former chief executive of Joondalup Health Campus, Kempton Cowan, has been charged with possessing child abuse material and transmitting child pornography.

A committee of state parliament will investigate claims against a controversial treatment centre for women and teenagers.

The corruption scandal involving jailed senior Department of Communities chief Paul Whyte has resulted in further damaging fallout to the government agency's housing division.

Federal Labor leader Anthony Albanese says "increasing productivity" would be his government's key strategy for reducing Australia's $866 billion gross debt.

A snapshot of the state's resources sector illustrates how strongly miners performed through the pandemic.

Josh Frydenberg has used a post-budget speech in Perth to reinforce his government's commitment to WA's share of GST revenue and warn about national security complacency.

Police commissioner Chris Dawson will become WA's next governor with Kim Beazley preparing to end his four year tenure.

The security of more than 30 government entity IT systems remains at "considerable risk" despite warnings last year, according to WA's auditor-general.