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WA Government welcomes recommendations from Final Report of Joint Standing Committee on Northern Australia New legislative measures will help prevent ....
Yamatji Nation Charitable Trust has been established Package of benefits can now flow to the Yamatji people The McGowan Government and the Yamatji Nation have today announced the establishment of the Yamatji Nation Charitable Trust, a significant milestone in the implementation of the Yamatji Nation Indigenous Land Use Agreement. Covering approximately 48,000 square kilometres of land in the State’s Mid-West region, the Yamatji Nation Agreement resolves the Western Australian Government’s compensation liability for the impairment and/or extinguishment of native title in the agreement area and includes a package of benefits for the Yamatji people, totalling approximately $500 million. With the Yamatji Nation Trust in place, the first of these benefits can be transferred – a cash contribution of $10 million. ....
One vote, one value off the ticket for a re-elected McGowan government Normal text size Advertisement Premier Mark McGowan has ruled out changing the mix of city and country representatives in the upper house as an election pledge, despite the government exploring ways to reform the chamber over the past four years. Mr McGowan labelled the electoral system as fundamentally unfair in 2017 after a landslide Labor win – where the party only picked up one more seat in the upper house than the Liberals and Nationals despite getting 120,000 more votes – which still left it well short of a majority in the legislative council. ....