The West Live Podcast

Parliament is back, and that’ll mean some tough questions for the Albanese government. To preview what will sure to be a week filled with fireworks is Canberra Bureau Chief for The West Australian, Katina Curtis.

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It’s the start of AFL training today.

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There’s only one way to describe the mayor of the City of Stirling.

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Mark McGowan is still making big bucks for Labor — teaming up with his old mates Roger Cook and Rita Saffioti to fill the pre-election coffers of the party he once led.

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Taylor Swift closed out her second show in Buenos Aires, Argentina, by changing the lyrics to her song "Karma" to reference tight end Travis Kelce, who attended the show that night.

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Thieves in France stole two truckloads of champagne before police recovered the liquid loot worth €600,000 in a high-speed chase.

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The modest, red-brick 1920s West Leederville house with a tiny, box-like room out the back where former prime minister Bob Hawke slept as a boy is being opened to the public.

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An insidious new COVID wave is quickly spreading across WA — and it could seriously disrupt Christmas.

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Just one in 20 GP clinics in WA are offering the COVID vaccine to children under the age of 12, leaving parents at a loss as to how they can protect their kids in the middle of Australia’s eighth wave of the potentially deadly virus.

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The World Health Organization has managed to get in touch with healthcare workers at Gaza’s al Shifa hospital where thousands of Palestinians, including critically injured ones, are sheltering as the Israeli military encircles the hospital.

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