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Albanese rallies against ‘fear and division’ at Labor campaign launch – as it happened

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Green energy to fuel WA's Rottnest Island

Western Australia's government is hoping to lure interstate and overseas visitors back to Rottnest Island with a major new renewable energy investment.

AAP

Less meth in Western Australia due to border closure leads to dangerous drug landscape change, support workers say

Frontline workers are encountering more people using heroin, benzodiazepines and other tranquillising prescription drugs in Western Australia after the state's border closure.

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Premier Mark McGowan confident it is the right time to lift WA COVID restrictions

As Western Australia sees most of its COVID restrictions lifted, Premier Mark McGowan says authorities are thinking of alternative uses for a purpose-built quarantine facility which may be obsolete by the time it is built.

ABC News

McGowan recovered as WA eases virus rules

Western Australia's premier says the state's lower-than-expected hospitalisation rates have paved the way for the state to remove most COVID-19 restrictions.

AAP

WA scraps masks, proof of vaccine mandates

Western Australia is set to abolish quarantine for asymptomatic COVID-19 close contacts and remove proof of vaccination and face mask mandates.

AAP

Morning mail: lobby group under fire for trans billboard, old China trip sparks new dispute, Elon Musk buys Twitter

Tuesday: AOC and Swimming Australia threaten legal action over billboards claiming ‘women’s sport is not for men’. Plus: the world’s richest man now owns Twitter

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Why not both? Voters in two key WA seats doubtful about ‘Morrison plus McGowan’ deal

Swan and Hasluck could be among the seats to fall if Labor gets a swing just one-third as big as Mark McGowan’s at state level

The Guardian - AU

No Sunday sleep-in for campaigners

Sunday was no rest day for those campaigning, as Scott Morrison made a prickly new friend.

The Canberra Times

WA premier's child out of hospital

WA Premier Mark McGowan is isolating at home with his family, including one child just discharged from hospital after suffering serious COVID symptoms.

AAP

WA Premier Mark McGowan's child discharged from hospital after COVID-19 battle

Mr McGowan's office confirms his child has left hospital after after being admitted with COVID-19 in a "serious condition."

ABC News

Albo's in iso but the campaign marches on

Week two of the election campaign is wrapping up and the surprises just keep coming.

Newcastle Herald

WA premier tests positive to COVID-19

Western Australia's premier has become the latest political leader to test positive to COVID-19, days after a family member contracted the virus.

AAP

WA Premier Mark McGowan's child admitted to hospital in serious condition with COVID-19

One of the West Australian Premier's children is admitted to hospital in a serious condition with COVID-19. The news comes just hours after Mark McGowan announced he has the virus.

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Mark McGowan forced into isolation as expert warns against easing COVID restrictions too soon

Premier Mark McGowan is forced into isolation as an infectious diseases expert warns a deeper look into how COVID is spreading in Western Australia is needed before restrictions are eased further.

AAP

WA premier McGowan in COVID-19 isolation

Western Australia's premier says he will spend seven days isolating at home after one of his family members tested positive to COVID-19.

ABC News

Kimberley juvenile crime puts all eyes on WA government as communities wait for long-term solutions

Premier Mark McGowan wants his government to help break the cycle of crime and dysfunction in the Kimberley, but residents are in the dark about how it intends to start.

AAP

Labour headaches as WA jobless rate falls

Western Australia's unemployment rate has fallen to a national low of 3.4 per cent, its lowest level in 14 years with almost 1.5 million people now in work.

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Western Australia's new COVID rules explained, from capacity limits to close contacts

Close contact rules are relaxed just in time for the Easter long weekend, with fewer capacity limits and the scrapping of check-in rules everywhere except hospitals.

The Conversation

State of the states: six politics experts take us on a trip around Australia

Over the next six weeks, Prime Minister Scott Morrison and Labor leader Anthony Albanese will dash around the country, trying to secure as many precious votes as they can.

ABC News

Mark McGowan announces further easing of Western Australia's COVID-19 restrictions, close contact rules

West Australian Premier Mark McGowan announces a further easing of COVID-19 restrictions from midnight tonight, including a dramatic change to close contact rules.

AAP

Palmer, WA premier seek aggravated damages

Billionaire Clive Palmer and West Australian Premier Mark McGowan are each seeking aggravated damages in their defamation case before the Federal Court.

ABC News

John Quigley 'corrects' evidence in defamation case involving Clive Palmer and Mark McGowan

John Quigley returns to the Federal Court to "correct" evidence he gave in defamation proceedings involving the WA Premier and Clive Palmer, with the judge saying Mr Palmer's lawyers were drawing "a bit of a long bow" by saying Mr Quigley was deceitful.

AAP

WA A-G blames memory for evidence mistakes

West Australian Attorney-General John Quigley has given fresh evidence to correct his "mistakes" in a defamation trial between Clive Palmer and Mark McGowan.

AAP

WA unmoved on masks as COVID-19 cases drop

Western Australia's premier has declined to say when face mask mandates will be removed as COVID-19 case numbers continue to steadily decline in the state.

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