State Politics

Mould discovered in air conditioning at Peel Health Campus has been ruled out for the toxic black variety, lab tests have revealed.The mould found last week prompted provider Ramsay Health Care to shift 32 patients to other facilities…

Perth Children’s Hospital still doesn’t have a “supernumerary” resuscitation team in place — more than two years after it was promised in the wake of Aishwarya Aswath’s death.“We expect it to be in place in the coming months,” WA Health…

Girls should be moved out of the strife-plagued Banksia Hill Juvenile Detention Centre to smaller existing facilities such as the underutilised Disability Justice Centre, experts say.In the wake of the recent half-day riot, former Inspector…

The corruption watchdog has deemed “inadequate” a WA Police investigation into the forceful arrest and charging of a man who pushed past an officer after being asked why he was in a shopping centre he had been banned from.According to a…

Premier Mark McGowan insists his Government is working as fast as it can on the much-hyped rewrite of the State’s gun laws and a shortage of specialist legislation drafters won’t act as a handbrake.Mr McGowan, Police Minister Paul Papalia…

Tough new gun laws that Police Minister Paul Papalia said were massively overdue when he announced them more than a year ago have still not even been introduced in Parliament.And in the meantime, the number of guns in the community has…

A Greens MP has issued a furious call over the state of policing in NSW after reports the body-worn footage of the officer who allegedly tasered 95-year-old great grandmother Clare Nowland has been seen by a “number of people including…

Facing criticism it is moving too slowly on reforming WA’s out-of-date gun laws in the wake of this week’s school shooting, Police Minister Paul Papalia has confirmed for the first time some of the key planks of the pending legislation and…

Many people are wondering if Perth Lord Mayor Basil Zempilas is planning to contest Churchlands for the Libs at the next State election.But there’s another potential contender for the seat — former WA Liberal Party leader and Dawesville MP…

A debilitating new strain of the flu has led to an explosion of cases with nearly 200 children hospitalised.The Government is so worried about the flu epidemic that it has extended its free vaccination program by a month until the end of…