Install
The West Australian is a leading news source in Perth and WA. Breaking local and world news from sport and business to lifestyle and current affairs.
- 3,451articles · 30d
- 51+ min agolatest article
- Aug 15, 2026earliest in window
- 99%with images
- 145avg words
- News 916
- Sports 731
- Sports & Fitness 695
- Politics 691
- Sport 651
- Economy, Business & Finance 614
- Crime & Law 609
- Sensitive Subjects 561
Please confirm you are human
This browser or connection looks automated. Press and continuously hold the control for 3 seconds to enable Google-hosted web results and, when separately allowed, AI-assisted answers.
A successful check enables 100 search requests. Interactive access does not authorize scraping, systematic collection, or reuse of search output.
News
Unions reject BHP port offer of $25k pay sweetener
5+ day, 18+ hour ago (406+ words) Unions agitating for a new deal at BHP’s Pilbara iron ore port have rejected the Big Australian’s sweetened offer, which includes a $25,000 ‘transition payment’ and higher wage rises for ‘most’ workers....
Australia’s only non-WA lithium mine restarts production
6+ day, 2+ hour ago (269+ words) The West Australian is a leading news source in Perth and WA. Breaking local and world news from sport and business to lifestyle and current affairs. Core Lithium has become the latest lithium miner to bring supply back online to…...
WA bans uranium mining. So why is Labor funding it?
1+ week, 2+ day ago (50+ words) Why would the Cook Government give hundreds of thousands of dollars to a mining company to explore for uranium when Labor has an effective ban on uranium mining in WA? Credit: Ross Swanborough/The West Australian, WA Premier Roger Cook…...
Cook backs WA coal mine merger, warns of high rehab cost
1+ week, 4+ day ago (390+ words) The West Australian is a leading news source in Perth and WA. Breaking local and world news from sport and business to lifestyle and current affairs. Premier Roger Cook says a merger between two major coal miners in Collie had…...
Anti-fracking voices heard outside resources conference
1+ week, 4+ day ago (386+ words) The West Australian is a leading news source in Perth and WA. Breaking local and world news from sport and business to lifestyle and current affairs....
Fortescue stands down exec embroiled in harassment probe
2+ week, 5+ day ago (273+ words) The West Australian is a leading news source in Perth and WA. Breaking local and world news from sport and business to lifestyle and current affairs. Fortescue has changed its mind by standing down the unnamed executive at the centre…...
Ditching diesel could save Pacific nations almost $1b
2+ week, 6+ day ago (26+ words) The West Australian is a leading news source in Perth and WA. Breaking local and world news from sport and business to lifestyle and current affairs....
Industrial action at Broome Port to be suspended
3+ week, 1+ day ago (329+ words) after union reaches agreement with local port authority The West Australian Union members will resume normal work at Broome Port at 6am on Sunday âWe were (in the meeting) with representatives of the ports, and all of the lawyers were…...
Never seen before Pilbara strike camp photos to be unveiled
3+ week, 2+ day ago (73+ words) Previously unseen photographs taken across Pilbara strike camps in the 1950s and 60s will be presented for the first time in Perth next month, remembering the 1946 Aboriginal pastoral workers’ strike. The No. 1 source of news for every West Australian / week for 8 weeks,…...
BHP-union stoush escalates with police called to site
3+ week, 3+ day ago (330+ words) Relations between unions and BHP at the miner’s WA iron ore port have hit a new low after police were called for what the miner claimed was ‘aggressive behaviour’ towards a woman by three union officials. Relations between unions and…...