Rhiannon Shine is a journalist for the ABC's nightly 7.30 program, based in Perth. She has previously worked in regional Western Australia, Hobart and as WA's state political reporter. In 2021 she won a WA Media Award for her multimedia reporting.
WA premier Roger Cook has conceded the timing of the next state election is "out of his hands" as a looming, but undetermined, federal election date threatens to cause a schedule clash.
WA Labor pressured taxpayer-funded electorate officers to campaign for its MPs in a way that risked fair elections, was fundamentally "undemocratic" and also risked serious misconduct, the state's corruption watchdog finds.
With two weeks left of one of the most lopsided parliaments in Western Australia's history, the wheels appear to be falling off the Liberal and National alliance over firearm laws. So where does this leave the opposition just four months out from the state election?
The return of Donald Trump to the White House sparks intense debate 15,000 kilometres away from the action inside Australia's economic powerhouse — a place so heavily reliant on mining, oil, gas and China.
WA's prisons watchdog puts the government on notice over the "bleak" situation inside Hakea Prison, which is buckling under overcrowded conditions.
An independent review of two cases at Joondalup Health Campus finds there was inadequate communication with parents, who described feeling "disempowered" in the decision-making around their child's care.
The WA government is trying to entice more people to buy off-the-plan apartments but some buyers, caught in a dispute with an embattled builder, wonder whether there are enough guardrails in place.
The battlelines for two elections were drawn this weekend, and while they'll be very different affairs given Peter Dutton's team is far stronger than the WA Liberals, state leader Libby Mettam is talking up her party's chances.
New laws have stripped WA's environmental watchdog of its power to consider carbon emissions when approving high-polluting projects. So is the EPA now a toothless tiger?
The federal government will provide an additional $32 million to help WA's sheep industry transition away from live exports, bringing the total support package to $139 million.
Joel Reeve is eagerly awaiting the birth of his son after a stranger he met online agreed to be a surrogate. But he had to move his entire life to Tasmania to become a father.
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Climate change legislation that promised to drive down WA's rising greenhouse gas emissions looks increasingly likely to be shelved ahead of the March state election.
Some of Australia's richest industrialists will be allowed for the first time to send WA's gas overseas, with the state government opening up onshore reserves to exports.
Video of a man being tackled by a Perth transit officer, breaking his collarbone, has been released by WA's anti-corruption body.
Retiring WA Labor MP Chris Tallentire breaks ranks to raise concerns about "a concerted effort by interest groups" to influence state and federal environmental protection laws.
Minister Papalia walked back the comments about conditions in detention during question time in parliament on Wednesday.
WA's top child advocate watched in horror as the government referenced her "glowing" assessment of the youth detention centre where another teenage boy died in custody, and was devastated her observations were taken "out of context".
The mother of a boy who died by suicide while being held in youth detention in WA says he will be deeply missed by his family and the juvenile justice system in the state is "failing all youths regardless of race".
A 17-year-old boy takes his own life inside WA's controversial Banksia Hill, becoming the second child to die in youth detention in the state in less than a year.
Survivors of Australia's forced adoption scandal should be compensated under the nation's most extensive financial redress scheme into the devastating practice, a WA parliamentary inquiry recommends.
A tree-killing beetle on the move across Perth is likely being spread beyond quarantine boundaries by people unaware of its existence, one scientist warns.
China's cooling property market has seen iron ore prices tumble faster than expected this year, and the decline could see $3 billion wiped from the federal budget. How concerned should WA be?
A parliamentary inquiry puts the WA Labor government at odds with some of the country's wealthiest businesspeople after discounting the idea they should be allowed to export onshore gas.
One of Australia's biggest gas projects is at risk of being rejected by Western Australia's environmental watchdog.
Like much of the country, WA is embracing rooftop solar with breathtaking gusto. But the state's position as the world's biggest island grid is posing a unique problem with authorities asking the question — how much solar is too much solar?