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Indonesian businessman Eddy Sariaatmadja has donated specialist medical equipment that is expected to form the cornerstone of an emerging clinical innovation, skills and training hub being planned by Perth business executive Michael Henderson.

The trouble-plagued and long-delayed Perth Children's Hospital will be ready for its first patients in May, more than two years after its intended opening date.

SPECIAL REPORT: The state government has rejected criticism of the cost and projected savings of its flagship medihotel healthcare policy, after work began on the construction of the first facility earlier this month.

The threat of corporate discount pharmacies on small, family-run businesses has triggered a review of pharmacy ownership laws in Western Australia.

The state government has committed funds to the University of Western Australia for research into the mental health and wellbeing impact of the fly-in, fly-out working lifestyle.

The state government is considering enforcing a floor price on takeaway booze to stop people getting drunk on cheap alcohol, but the opposition says it is a cost impost on households and red tape burden on businesses.

The state government plans to replace multiple valves in the new Perth Children's Hospital after a report confirmed the cause of ongoing lead contamination at the trouble-plagued project, wth the extra work to push the hospital's opening date beyond this year.

The state government has warned police the public expects them to do their job, as new industrial action started, including officers issuing cautions for minor offences instead of fines.

Perth's next apartments and employment hub will be created at Murdoch, with Fini Group selected to deliver the $200 million first stage of LandCorp's Murdoch Health and Knowledge Precinct.

The Perth Children's Hospital is unlikely to open by the new September deadline but progress is being made treating lead contamination at the facility, the state's health minister says.

Five bidders have been shortlisted to build the state's first Medihotel at the planned Murdoch Health and Knowledge Precinct, with the successful tenderer to be announced mid-year.

The state government has taken control of the trouble-plagued Perth Children's Hospital to solve what it believes is the cause of the ongoing lead contamination problem.

Perth Children's Hospital is unlikely to open before the second half of the year, the new Labor state government says, as work continues to find the source of lead in drinking water.

SPECIAL REPORT: A small group of ministers and backroom advisers close to Mark McGowan will set the agenda for the new state government.

ANALYSIS: Freshly recycled Labor MP Alannah MacTiernan has been fast tracked into Premier-elect Mark McGowan's new cabinet, even though she will not formally start her term in the Legislative Council until mid-May.

Kwinana Mayor Carol Adams has announced her third tilt at state parliament, nominating as an independent for the South Metropolitan region in the Legislative Council, while the WA Liberals remain tight lipped about a potential preference deal with Pauline Hanson's One Nation.

The state government has flagged the possibility of a broad inquiry into the use of imported building materials after confirming today that roofing panels supplied by Chinese company Yuanda to Perth Children's Hospital contained asbestos.

SPECIAL REPORT: There has been a major shift in business influence in WA amid waning international investment and, with two elections on the way, there is a prospect of even bigger changes in political influence. Click through to see our listing of WA's most infliential leaders in politics and business.

The challenge to WA Labor leader Mark McGowan looks all but over, after the shadow cabinet expressed unanimous support and called on Stephen Smith to withdraw immediately.

The future of RPH as a tertiary hospital is as unclear as when the Liberals ‘prioritised' the issue before the 2008 election.

Deputy Premier Kim Hames resigned his tourism portfolio today after admitting to wrongly claiming more than $1,000 in accommodation allowances.

THE world of lobbying was turned upside down with the ousting of Alan Carpenter's Labor state government in September last year.