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Good morning readers, and welcome to our live news blog for Wednesday, December 3.
Making headlines today Western Australia’s high-achieving schools for 2025 have been revealed, with government secondary schools in the metropolitan area forming the majority of top performers in this year’s NAPLAN testing.
Meanwhile, representatives from Gina Rinehart’s Hancock Prospecting have likened Perth to Tokyo and New York as they plead their case for a helipad on the company’s under-construction $270 million headquarters.
Gina Rinehart and an artist’s impression of Hancock Prospecting’s $270 million West Perth headquarters.
And staying in the CBD, the City of Perth has been thrown into fresh turmoil, with the lord mayor requesting a state government inspector investigation after abandoning the controversial workplace culture review he pushed through last month.
In the courts, a Perth dentist has been struck off after he was arrested for filming scores of unsuspecting women – including a 16-year-old girl – in compromising positions and up their skirts in shopping centre change rooms and on the street.
And, in case you missed it, Electoral Commissioner Robert Kennedy announced last night he will leave his post on January 30, avoiding a vote in parliament to sack him.
Stay with us as we bring you all the local news of the day, as it happens across WA.
