High drama in Western Australia's parliament involving claims of antisemitism has seen firebrand Nationals MP Lachlan Hunter suspended from the legislative assembly.
New data from the Australian Bureau of Statistics has revealed the nation's unemployment rate rose to 4.5 per cent in July, buoying hopes the Reserve Bank would hold off on raising rates in the near term.
Opposition leader Basil Zempilas says he'll seek a firm commitment about West Australia's current GST arrangement from federal Liberal leader Angus Taylor.
Australia's live cattle industry is seeking certainty from the federal government that it won't become a victim of politics again via the launch of a new blueprint.
The state government has awarded nearly $600,000 to a family getting back into major developments after the high-profile collapse of their last building company.
Multiple contentious Labor policies might pass the parliament pending a deal, as Labor goes on the attack against One Nation and the coalition amid new polling.
The vociferous response from WA political and business leaders to the Productivity Commission's interim GST report was as swift as it was predictable come Friday afternoon.
Former Woodside Energy director Melinda Cilento has been appointed to the Reserve Bank of Australia's Monetary Policy Board, adding further WA resources experience to the rate-setting panel.
A report by the Productivity Commission has denounced the current GST distribution system, calling it “perverse”, only of benefit to Western Australia and leaving the federal government with an “open-ended fiscal liability".
Levies will remain in place on Australian goods to the US for now, but the prime minister says Donald Trump will consider scrapping the measure on its ally.
A multibillion-dollar deal to rescue Australia's largest aluminium smelter has brought "enormous relief" to thousands of workers and an end to months of crisis negotiations.
Central Wheatbelt MP Lachlan Hunter will be responsible for probing the state government on almost all primary industry matters after gaining the mining, petroleum and exploration shadow portfolios.
An update on the dysfunction plaguing the City of Perth since last year has found some elected members have resisted measures to improve “psychosocial risks” at the council.
