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Mick Gatto wearing a shirt with an M Group logo in 2017.

Officer of Gatto-linked company obtained labour hire licence despite strip club scandal

The state opposition has continued to question the premier over companies linked to the gangland figure.

  • Kieran Rooney

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Premier Jacinta Allan again rebuffed calls to expand the corruption watchdog’s powers.

Watchdog lashes Victoria’s Big Build agency over ‘poor’ records

Asked to investigate allegations of misconduct, the ombudsman was stymied by lax record-keeping around spending at the agency managing the state’s $100 billion infrastructure program.

  • Nick McKenzie and Kieran Rooney
The delayed Malcolm Street Bridge barrier project in West Perth.

Why this 100-metre Perth city bridge has taken two years to fix

The $1.3 million project started in February 2024 and has forced the closure of the right lane on Malcolm Street in West Perth heading east to St Georges Terrace for that period.

  • Hamish Hastie
Osborne Park Hospital expansion artist impression.

Osborne Park Hospital expansion: Work begins on new facility for northern suburbs mums

The milestone comes as the Cook government was forced to defend the WA hospital system’s readiness for the upcoming flu season

  • Hamish Hastie
Artist impression of Rockingham foreshore after the implementation of its strategic plan.

How one council plans to handle WA’s population boom – just don’t call it the Gold Coast of the west

Planning for Rockingham’s new look began long before the AUKUS deal was inked – but a predicted influx of defence workers has the potential to supercharge the city’s efforts.

  • Michael Philipps
2032 Olympic Games organising committee president Andrew Liveris at the IOC meeting during the 2026 Winter Games in Milan.

Liveris doubles down on Olympics cost pledge, rattles tin for US sponsors

Brisbane Olympics president Andrew Liveris has doubled down on his pledge that the Games will not require taxpayer funds to operate, as he scours corporate America for sponsors to cover the event’s regional spread.

  • Michael Koziol
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The new Midland Train Station under construction last year.

Has ‘the greater good for WA’ become an excuse not to listen?

There is an important distinction between opposing a project and supporting it while objecting to how it is delivered.

  • Kevin Bartholomew
Global giant Schindler won the contract to provide lifts and escalators on the Melbourne Metro project.

Failure to escalate: Victorian government officials never formally reported $6 million metro lift scam

The workers behind the audacious scheme, involving false claims of damaged elevators, were sacked but have not faced a criminal probe.

  • Nick McKenzie and Grant McArthur
An artist’s impression of a high-speed train operating between Sydney and Newcastle.

Revealed: High-speed rail link to cost taxpayers up to $90b

At $90 billion, a Sydney-Newcastle high-speed rail link would be the most expensive single piece of infrastructure ever built.

  • Shane Wright and Matt O'Sullivan
CFMEU administrator Mark Irving (right) and corruption-busting lawyer Geoffrey Watson, SC.

Allan releases CFMEU letter as opposition says its royal commission would include government culpability

The government remains steadfast in its belief that the alleged rampant corruption on Big Build worksites has not led to a $15 billion budget blowout as alleged by an expert.

  • Kieran Rooney