Under Treasurer Michael Barnes has warned adding projects to the state’s infrastructure schedule could lead to time blow-outs as Labor’s election plan adds $1 billion to WA’s net debt.

Westpac’s profits recovered in the December quarter, and the lending giant joined rivals in saying the economy was on the mend.

Cases in India have been falling dramatically and uniformly across the country for months. But the detection of the more infectious variants comes amid some worrying but so far isolated outbreaks.

Brittany Higgins’ story is damning but not unfamiliar, where the reputation of the party comes ahead of the individual.

Former cabinet minister’s lawyers tell Supreme Court the appointment of administrators Steve Bracks and Jenny Macklin – and their decisions – are ‘null and void’.