Follow our live coverage here.
Follow our live coverage here.
With Anzac Day approaching, our colleagues over at Radio 6PR this morning spoke to RSLWA president Duncan Anderson about a recent survey that suggested only one in four members of Gen Z feel strongly connected to Anzac Day.
“For a lot of people, I suppose it is out of sight out of mind and that’s what we’re really trying to do in and around Anzac day is bring it into people’s minds so they can understand that people out there do serve this great country” he said.
Listen to the full interview below:
Watch Peter Dutton’s Perth press conference live below:
Peter Dutton is about to arrive at a defence manufacturing business in Belmont to spruik his military spending plan.
The contingent travelling with the opposition leader is at Blacktree Technologies in the Labor-held seat of Swan.
Swan is one of four seats in WA that Labor snatched off the Liberal Party in 2022.
Speaking of the election campaign, nearly 60,000 West Australians have already placed their vote for their preferred prime minister after the federal election pre-polling booths opening yesterday.
The busiest booths were in the seat of Canning, currently held by opposition defence spokesman Andrew Hastie, with more than 5,500 people in Mandurah and Byford casting their votes on day one.
Bunbury and Busselton voting centres were also busy, with more than 3000 residents in the electorate of Forrest casting their votes.
Nearly two million West Australians are eligible to vote at the May 3 election, with up to half excepted to place their vote early.
Both Prime Minister Anthony Albanese and Opposition Leader Peter Dutton will be in Perth today as part of their election campaigns.
Dutton will be joined by WA Liberal MP and opposition defence spokesman, Andrew Hastie, as the pair announce a $21 billion defence spending pledge over the next decade.
The Coalition will promise to significantly outspend Labor by increasing defence spending to 2.5 per cent of gross domestic product (GDP) by 2030 and to 3 per cent over the next 10 years, matching the ambitious target called for by the Trump administration.
A group of defence experts last week warned that the AUKUS submarine program, to be based in WA, is growing so dramatically that it is approaching the size of a standalone branch of the Defence Force, draining funding for other military equipment.
The authors, from the Strategic Analysis Australia think tank, called for defence spending to be put on a rapid trajectory to reach 3 per cent of gross domestic product within the next term of government, taking defence spending from the current $56 billion annually to $84 billion a year.
Here’s what’s making news across the country and around the world:
Good morning readers, and welcome to our live news blog for Wednesday, April 23.
Making headlines this morning is new data revealing the Perth suburbs where buying a home is tough work – because the current residents aren’t leaving any time soon.
Which suburb tops the list for property hold-outs? You’ll have to read Sarah Brookes’ article to find out.
Meanwhile, in case you missed it yesterday, Opposition Leader Basil Zempilas has issued a mea culpa for breaching local government rules after using his council-linked social media profile in his campaign for state government.
Zempilas stepped down as lord mayor as soon as his tight victory in Churchlands for the WA Liberals was confirmed in March, which complicated a Local Government Standards Panel ruling that he provide a public apology for the minor breach.
His apology was published on the City of Perth’s Facebook page late Tuesday afternoon.
Read Hamish Hastie’s full story here.
And finally, did you catch the leaders’ debate on Nine last night? We won’t blame you if you didn’t – it was airing during peak hour in WA, after all.
But if you want a wrap of the night’s proceedings, which took place after a pause in campaigning to mourn the death of Pope Francis, you can read a wrap of the debate here.
Thanks for joining us today, stay tuned as we bring you more news you need to know.
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