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Watch West Coast Eagles player Dom Sheed’s retirement announcement live here from 12.45pm.

Premier Roger Cook has been handed the final report into the WA election shamble, but it’s still a mystery as to when West Australians will get their hands on it.

Cook’s office confirmed he had received the report from former WA governor Malcolm McCusker but it needed to be considered by Cabinet.

“It will be tabled in Parliament following its consideration by Cabinet, as is the customary practice,” a spokesman said.

“Both the Opposition and public will be able to access the report at this time.”

McCusker was tasked with probing what went wrong at the state election after serious issues were reported with the training of staff, levels of resourcing, management of voting booths and outsourcing of aspects of the election.

With parliament about to take its winter break, the public may be waiting months to read the findings of the report.

West Coast legend Dom Sheed is set to announce his retirement in the next hour.

The 30-year-old will join Jeremy McGovern as another early delisting, bowing out mid-season due to an ACL injury he suffered during a February training session.

The 165-gamer’s terrible run of injuries has seen him play just 24 games in the past four seasons.

More to come.

Sticking with the estimates hearings, Tourism Minister Reece Whitby has just revealed how WA’s most hated sesame seed-sized beetle, the Polyphagus Shot Hole Borer made it across Gage Roads to Rottnest Island.

“We looked at how it might have arrived on the island, and suspect it came via some mulch from the mainland that was used over there,” he said.

“So obviously, we are now treating any vegetation that comes onto the island, and mulch … we believe we’re on top of that now keeping a very close eye on it.”

The borer, which is now with us for good after the Commonwealth decided to opt for a management approach rather than eradication, has forced the removal of 10 trees on Rottnest (and more than 1400 statewide).

Whitby said special attention had been paid to the Moreton Bay figs on the island, which are more susceptible to the beetle.

WAtodayis listening in to the budget estimates hearings currently ongoing at Parliament House and just 20 minutes in frustration is already boiling over on from the opposition.

Budget estimates offer the chance for MPs to scrutinise the WA budget line by line with relevant ministers accompanied by advisers from their corresponding government departments.

First up is Tourism Minister Reece Whitby who is being grilled on his portfolio by Opposition Leader Basil Zempilas.

Whitby has stonewalled attempts by Zempilas to probe what cost benefit analysis was conducted on the tourism benefits derived from establishing the Perth Bears NRL team in WA.

Whitby said the question was one for Sports Minister Rita Saffioti and came under her purview.

A frustrated Zempilas questioned why his queries about the tourism aspect of the Bears could not be answered by the “army of tourism advisers” behind him.

Perth’s median house price has increased by 0.8 per cent in June to $786,000, as active listings in the city fall below 4000 for the first time in nearly a year.

According to REIWA, the price is 16.4 per cent higher than this time last year, with the market still experiencing strong demand.

The median unit price increased by 0.9 per cent in June to $540,000, marking a huge 20 per cent jump year-on-year.

The suburbs that saw the most price growth in June were Mount Lawley (up 2.6 per cent to $1,580,000), Coodanup (up 2.6 per cent to $600,000), Ocean Reef (up 1.6 per cent to $1,300,000), Kewdale (up 1.5 per cent to $758,500) and Melville (up 1.5 per cent to $1,382,500).

Houses in Perth sold in a median of 13 days in June while the median rent price increased 0.7 per cent to $680 per week.

WA shadow energy minister Steve Thomas has accused the state government of lacking a viable plan to transition WA’s energy system following Minister Amber-Jade Sanderson’s comments on radio 6PR yesterday.

You can listen to Sanderson’s interview below:

Thomas claims Sanderson implied she was handing the planning of WA’s future energy needs to the private sector and the independent market operator.

“Minister Sanderson is now on the record as putting the responsibility for our energy supply future onto the Australian Energy Market Operator, presumably because the state government has lost all faith in the ability of the Office of Energy and Energy Policy WA to do their jobs,” he said.

“AEMO is the market operator that manages the distribution of power, but it is not responsible for planning our energy future. That falls to Energy Policy WA.

“And to rely entirely on the private sector to save the government’s bacon by supplying our new generation needs has become their standard operating procedure of privatisation by stealth.

“Right now, it appears that the government only wants to focus on setting the price, which with this lack of commitment the process will only be going rapidly up.”

Warning: this report contains the name and image of a deceased Indigenous person, with his family’s permission.

The coroner heading the inquest into the 2023 death of Cleveland Dodd is expected to hand down their preliminary findings this afternoon.

The 16-year-old was the first child to die in custody in Western Australia, after he was held in the notorious Unit 18 at Casuarina Prison.

His family yesterday rejected an apology from the WA government saying words are cheap.

“Animals get treated more better than my grandson, who asked for a cup of water in a prison that wasn’t even meant to be for a 16-year-old boy,” said Roslyn Sullivan.

During the inquest it was revealed the teen spent an average of just three minutes a day outside his prison cell.

The family’s lawyer described the suicide death as predictable, inexcusable and preventable.

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