People will be speculating for months to come on the underlying reasons for Premier Geoff Gallop’s sudden and unexpected resignation from the state’s top political job due to depression.
It's not often that a political announcement genuinely catches everyone by surprise, but Geoff Gallop’s decision this week to step down as premier and retire from politics certainly falls into that category.
The resources sector has welcomed reform of Western Australia’s project approvals process, under which former Argyle Diamonds managing director Brendan Hammond will head a new unit that will report directly to Premier Geoff Gallop.
THE Australian Marine Complex in Henderson has received an additional $90 million in funding on top of $180 million already spent on the facility.A floating dock and rail transfer system will be insta
WESTERN Power has reversed its policy in negotiations with unions by withdrawing a claim for the re-introduction of Australian Workplace Agreements from its new certified agreement.This follows commen
Well, it has happened again. Western Australia is to have another governor, a retired public servant, 67-year-old Dr Ken Michael, and the people were again denied a say in who would hold their state’s most powerful constitutional post.
The lobbying for parliamentary secretary positions in Geoff Gallop’s second-term government is well under way ahead of next week’s caucus meeting, as Joe Poprzeczny reports. One of the first items for
Premier Geoff Gallop has won his second election, his parliamentary majority is intact, and he has refreshed his ministry with a modest reshuffle and five new faces.
With Western Australia’s second election of the 21st century just days away it’s worth recapping some of the campaign’s stand-out points and to also consider something that never eventuated.
Amid the debate over the Opposition’s proposed Kimberley-to-Perth aqueduct, Joe Poprzeczny examines why neither major party will embrace the markedly cheaper option of tapping the South West Yarragade
Premier Geoff Gallop isn’t the one calling the shots in State Labor’s current election campaign. Joe Poprzeczny considers the role of Labor’s real master strategist who, nearly a decade ago, underwent a Latham-style resignation.
WHILE discussing competition for Geoff Gallop, corporate lawyer Neil Fearis is confident of his chances against Dr Gallop in the seat of Victoria Park in the forthcoming election.
“WELL, here we are again” were the words former prime minister Paul Keating uttered when announcing the 1996 Federal election he would lose to John Howard.