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BHP defies its own climate strategy to spend hundreds of millions on polluting diesel trucks in Pilbara

Western Australia](https://www.theguardian.com/australia-news/western-australia) in 2024 and to begin rolling them out in 2027-28. But an exclusive

Prisoners in Western Australia are living in ‘cruel, inhuman or degrading’ conditions, report warns

Western Australia are living in ‘cruel, inhuman or degrading’ conditions, report warns Inmates in [Western

Mouse plague hits WA grain farmers as numbers surge in SA: ‘You literally can’t get away from them’

Western Australia](https://www.theguardian.com/australia-news/western-australia) reach plague proportions and numbers surge in South Australia. Steve

Hastie says falling house prices might not be ‘all that encouraging’ for recent buyers – as it happened

Australia, extending into eastern states, and below average for Tasmania, south-west Western Australia, and pockets

The BHP files: World’s biggest miner BHP backtracks on climate action with key projects put on ice, leaked documents reveal

Western Australia. Photograph: Krystle Wright/The Guardian The Chamber of Minerals and Energy of Western Australia

‘Fiercely loyal, endlessly generous’ young father named as victim of Rottnest Island shark attack

Western Australia. Steven Mattaboni, 38, a surveyor from Perth, was in the water at Horseshoe

Australian ex-minister launches crowd-funded inquiry into Aukus submarine deal

Western Australia. Karen Lester, the daughter of an Aboriginal man who went blind due to British

Indigenous Australians win record A$150m after billionaire mined without permission

western Australia have been awarded a record A$150.1 million ($108.3m; £79.9m) payout

Secret documents reveal preferred Australian nuclear submarine base – and warn it could be a military target

Australia and Western Australia, but the federal government has consistently maintained an east coast base

Australia’s south-east set for drier and hotter winter as BoM forecasts potential El Niño

western Victoria, southern parts of South Australia and the south-west of Western Australia could

Diphtheria outbreak: residents of remote NT community say health clinic has no hand sanitiser

Australia, Queensland and Western Australia](https://www.theguardian.com/australia-news/2026/may/23/australia-diphtheria-outbreak-remote-indigenous-communities-ntwnfb), according to data released by the Australian

Has Marles bowed to Trump’s wishes on defence spending? The figures are as clear as mud

Australia and the Henderson base in Western Australia. Under the Aukus deal, the first Virginia

Australia and Japan sign contracts for $7bn warships deal

Australia’s Austal will build eight in Western Australia. The first of the Japanese-built

Typhoon Jangmi threatens Japan as Europe swelters

Australia early this week as a 980hPa low-pressure system sweeps eastwards . The weather system, which [brought severe storms to Western

Record-breaking May warmth soon to blow away as cold front moves east

Western Australia to form the cold front which swept across South Australia on Saturday, heading

‘A sobering indictment’: 14 homeless people die a year in public parks or countryside in Australia, analysis finds

Australia, an analysis of hidden death reports reveals. The deaths of a young international student [sleeping rough in Hyde Park](https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2026/apr/21/death-bikram-lama-homeless-man-sydney-st-james-tunnel-ntwnfb), a young homeless mother who [died of sepsis in Western

States on edge about NDIS cuts as Chalmers flags they will be ‘easily the most important’ part of budget savings

Australia they were worried about the breadth of the changes and possible new costs for the states, after written requests for information to [Butler’s departmental chief, Blair Comley](https://www.theguardian.com/australia-news/2025/jun/29/top-public-servant-urges-more-doing-less-reviewing-after-70-inquiries-in-labors-first-term-foi-papers-reveal), were rebuffed. Western

Australia fuel watch tracker: check current petrol and diesel prices, service station outages and shipments – in charts

Western Australia are based on temporary outage dates for each station. WA data for 26 to 30 March

‘Difficult’ mission to repatriate Australian hantavirus cruise passengers en route to long Perth quarantine

Western Australia, for two or three days, and then they’ll be released to home

Federal government accused of watering down proposal to protect Australia’s threatened species and ecosystems

Western Australia to announce $45m for state and territory governments to advance plans to allow