Prime Minister in Perth to announce cut to red tape, Westport funding

Good morning and welcome to our live news blog for Wednesday, April 29th.

A plan to inject more than 500 new homes into the Western Australian Government District Officer Housing Program using money from the state’s biggest miners, making headlines today, has been criticized as an admission that Labor has dropped the ball on regional development over the last decade.

Prime Minister Roger Cook He made the statement at the Chamber of Mines and Energy breakfast. On Tuesday he also announced the “Seven Cities” initiative, which aims to improve infrastructure and housing in the regional centers of Bunbury, Kalgoorlie, Karratha, Port Hedland, Broome, Geraldton and Albany.

And in case you missed it, a medical student appeared in court, Accused of traveling from Queensland to Perth and murdering his elderly father during a psychotic episode.

David Moussa, 32, pleaded not guilty by reason of insanity to the January 2025 stabbing at the family’s Clarkson home.

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