Fatima Payman has declared she wants to be a voice for WA but is yet to decide her position on key issues that are important to voters in the State.
Katina Curtis
China has granted export approval to an Australian beef processing plant for the first time in seven years, in a ‘clear indication’ the relationship between the two countries is recovering.
Adam Poulsen
WA’s ‘Farmy Army’ has officially started its campaign to topple Federal Labor and save the live sheep trade, with about 40 volunteers rallying to ‘letterbox’ the streets of Perth on Thursday.
Olivia Ford
Federal Labor’s cavalier approach in amending the Export Control Act 2020 has significant implications for all of Australia’s $650 billion export industries, on which our national economy so heavily depends.
Chris Back
The City of Albany has followed in the footsteps of several Great Southern local governments and thrown their weight behind disgruntled farmers, voting to support the Keep the Sheep campaign last week.
Melissa Sheil
Incensed WA farmers have declared war against the Albanese Government after historic laws to ban the live sheep trade passed Federal Parliament this week.
Kimberley Caines, Olivia Ford, Adam Poulsen & Rebecca Turner
Katanning Shire president Kristy D’Aprile has met with the prime minister in Canberra this week to oppose the live sheep export ban, which she says will “decimate” the Great Southern economy.
Georgia Campion
Angry WA farmers have vowed to go to war against Prime Minister Anthony Albanese and his Government in their fight to save the live export industry.
Kimberley Caines
Laws to ban live sheep exports have passed after the Federal Government ignored last-minute lobbying from WA farmers and the Opposition to ram it through the Senate.
Dan Jervis-Bardy and Dylan Caporn
West Australian sheep producers have travelled to Canberra ahead of an expected vote, to plead with senators not to outlaw the live export trade.
Liv Casben
Labor will attempt to ram through laws to ban live sheep exports as soon as Monday as it stares down a last-ditch lobbying attempt from WA farmers desperate to save the trade.
Dan Jervis-Bardy
Labor and the Greens have torpedoed an attempt by the Nationals to launch a promised Senate inquiry into the Albanese Government’s Bill to ban live sheep exports.
Independent MP Kate Chaney supported Labor’s Bill to ban live sheep exports just days before it went to the vote in the Lower House — but changed her mind after listening to community members’ stories.
It’s no surprise the Labor-dominated parliamentary inquiry into the Albanese Government’s proposed live sheep export ban ignored the evidence and the science, writes Liberal Senator Slade Brockman.
Slade Brockman
Jackie Jarvis has flown to Canberra in a last-ditch bid to convince her own party to bin its proposed sheep shipping ban, with the WA Agriculture Minister vowing to ‘continue fighting’ for the State’s farmers.
Labor’s contentious Export Control Amendment Bill — which if legislated, will ban all live sheep exports by sea from Australia by mid-2028 — has passed through the House of Representatives.
The pleas of rural and regional people in WA have been ignored as the Federal Government “rushes” to move on the Bill to ban live sheep exports, according to Federal MP Rick Wilson
Anjelica Smilovitis
WA Police have been forced to send an embarrassing correction text message to gun owners after mistakenly claiming the recently passed Firearm Act was already law.
Dylan Caporn
Calls are mounting for a Senate probe into Federal Labor’s Bill to ban live sheep exports, with the Opposition and farming groups calling a parliamentary inquiry that ended last week an ‘unjust farce’.
Adam Poulsen & Olivia Ford
WA Nationals State director Douglas Rodgers abruptly left ‘on mutually agreed terms’ in late May — with multiple party sources claiming his departure was related to the conduct of Shane Love.
Josh Zimmerman
Legislation to shut down WA’s live sheep export trade within four years could be pushed through Federal Parliament in the next fortnight after an inquiry examining the proposal recommended it be passed.
Shane Love ‘can think of nothing’ he has done to hurt former colleague Louise Kingston, who sensationally accused the Opposition Leader of ‘relentless bullying’ as she quit the Nationals on Thursday.
Nationals MP Louise Kingston has sensationally accused her leader Shane Love of ‘relentless bullying and harassment’ as she quit the party to contest the next election as an independent.
Josh Zimmerman and Dylan Caporn
Violent offenders are set to lose their guns within days, as police work to implement WA’s new firearm laws, less than 24 hours after they were passed by Parliament.