Kate Doust

Opinion: While the issue of gender quotas has been a winner for Labor, it remains a divisive topic within Liberal ranks, as the recent pre-selection for the Wentworth by-election indicates.

The head of the Department of the Premier and Cabinet has been accused of an “extremely serious intentional breach of parliamentary privilege” by a parliamentary committee chaired by Labor's Kate Doust for his actions during a Corruption and Crime Commission investigation.

Labor’s left faction is set to dominate cabinet appointments as key figures from the party’s right flank are shifted out of the ministry.

What role will unions and factions play in Mark McGowan’s second term?

WA's attorney-general has been accused by a Labor colleague of intervening in a corruption investigation involving a laptop seized from a disgraced MP.

The state’s Supreme Court has ruled the corruption watchdog should have to hand back documents it seized as part of a probe into allegations of misconduct by former MPs.

If there is a message to be taken from the Supreme Court's recent ruling in favour of the Legislative Council over the CCC, it's that parliament must be responsible for its own affairs.

Western Australian retailers are pleading for a hardline crackdown on workplace attacks amid shock new data that reveals most shop attendants no longer feel safe at work.