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West Australian
2 days ago
- Business
- West Australian
All the details: WA Shearing Industry Association set to hold AGM with Merino focus in June
Former leader of the WA Opposition Mia Davies joins a line-up of speakers at the WA Shearing Industry Association's annual general meeting this month. The AGM will focus on industry initiatives and challenges in the wake of a particularly difficult period, showcasing the industry's value while also providing networking opportunities for farmers. The recent candidate for the Federal seat of Bullwinkel, Ms Davies, will speak on her time in politics, her thoughts on the WA agricultural sector and what she envisions for the future to close out the event. She will be joined by Western Australian sheep producer and Sheep Producers Australia chair Bindi Murray, and speakers from Australian Wool Innovation, Stud Merino Breeders, PSC Insurance, Heiniger, woolgrowers, brokers and buyers. Presentations will centre on the theme of the value of the Merino across the five-hour event at Ingot Hotel on June 21. A panel session facilitated by The Livestock Collective will also feature, as well as a presentation from WA WoolTAG. Attendees can gather for coffee from 8.30am, with the event start time set for 9am, finishing at 2pm. The event is $35 per person to cover the cost of morning tea and lunch. A raffle with prizes from Top Gun Shearing, Heiniger and AWI is included. RSVPs are required via the WASIA website . The AGM will be an expanded format of WASIA's recent member meeting in January which featured president Darren Spencer's bi-annual report and an address from Australian Wool Innovation WA director Neil Jackson.
ABC News
09-05-2025
- Politics
- ABC News
Labor's Trish Cook claims victory in Bullwinkel in final WA vote count
Labor has claimed victory in the seat of Bullwinkel, on Perth's eastern fringe, six days after Saturday's federal election handed a landslide victory to Anthony Albanese's government. Trish Cook had been fighting it out with the Liberals' Matt Moran for the right to represent the newly created seat, and at one point there were less than 100 votes separating the front-runners. The vote had initially been split with a third candidate, former Nationals WA leader Mia Davies, but she conceded on Saturday night and her preferences were likely to have heavily favoured Mr Moran.
The Age
08-05-2025
- Politics
- The Age
WA news LIVE: Ex-WA Nationals leader Mia Davies quits politics; Perth family fear retribution despite not guilty verdict in Cassius Turvey trial
Latest posts Latest posts 9.38am Ex-WA Nationals leader Mia Davies quits politics Fresh off an unsuccessful campaign in the 2025 federal election for the seat of Bullwinkel, former state Nationals leader Mia Davies has announced she is quitting politics. Davies came up short, with the Labor and Liberal candidates for the area still battling it out on Friday morning with no clear winner announced. In a statement, Davies said two years ago she had decided to quit politics, but less than year ago the new federal electorate of Bullwinkel was created, pushing her to give it one last shot. 'The new seat, plus the policy positions emerging from an east-coast centric federal Labor government that were undermining and destroying businesses, industry and communities I'd spent twenty years representing, caused me to examine my own conscience,' she said. 'This wasn't the election to sit on the sidelines. In my family, we have a saying – it's actually written on my Dad's gravestone – if you think you can make a difference, you should. 'That means stepping into the arena ready to have a fight whether you think you'll win, draw or lose. On this occasion, we lost.' She thanked those who had helped her in her campaign and to those who had supported her in the community. 'I hope there is something out there that will give me the same satisfaction I have gained from serving the Central Wheatbelt and state in parliament for seventeen years,' Davies said. 'I look forward to that challenge.' 9.34am Across the nation and around the world Here's what's making headlines today: Cardinal Robert Prevost, a US-born missionary and senior Vatican official, was elected pope on Thursday evening, becoming the first American to lead the Roman Catholic Church in its 2000-year history. He will be known as Pope Leo XIV. And speaking of the new Pope, he is evidently no big fan of his homeland's current political leadership. Deputy Liberal leader Sussan Ley has declared her candidacy to replace Peter Dutton and run the beleaguered party, declaring it had let Australian women down. Australia's richest person was, like most of the country, unhappy with the Liberal Party on Saturday night. But for different reasons to your average swing voter. The United States military has lost a second $93 million F/A-18 fighter jet into the Red Sea after another mishap aboard the aircraft carrier USS Harry S. Truman. Australia's most famous round ball athlete has welcomed a son, Jagger. 'Our little man is here, Jagger Mewis-Kerr,' said Sam Kerr in a post shared to Instagram which also features partner Kristie Mewis, a professional footballer from the US. Mewis carried the boy to term.
Sydney Morning Herald
08-05-2025
- Politics
- Sydney Morning Herald
WA news LIVE: Ex-WA Nationals leader Mia Davies quits politics; Perth family fear retribution despite not guilty verdict in Cassius Turvey trial
Latest posts Latest posts 9.38am Ex-WA Nationals leader Mia Davies quits politics Fresh off an unsuccessful campaign in the 2025 federal election for the seat of Bullwinkel, former state Nationals leader Mia Davies has announced she is quitting politics. Davies came up short, with the Labor and Liberal candidates for the area still battling it out on Friday morning with no clear winner announced. In a statement, Davies said two years ago she had decided to quit politics, but less than year ago the new federal electorate of Bullwinkel was created, pushing her to give it one last shot. 'The new seat, plus the policy positions emerging from an east-coast centric federal Labor government that were undermining and destroying businesses, industry and communities I'd spent twenty years representing, caused me to examine my own conscience,' she said. 'This wasn't the election to sit on the sidelines. In my family, we have a saying – it's actually written on my Dad's gravestone – if you think you can make a difference, you should. 'That means stepping into the arena ready to have a fight whether you think you'll win, draw or lose. On this occasion, we lost.' She thanked those who had helped her in her campaign and to those who had supported her in the community. 'I hope there is something out there that will give me the same satisfaction I have gained from serving the Central Wheatbelt and state in parliament for seventeen years,' Davies said. 'I look forward to that challenge.' 9.34am Across the nation and around the world Here's what's making headlines today: Cardinal Robert Prevost, a US-born missionary and senior Vatican official, was elected pope on Thursday evening, becoming the first American to lead the Roman Catholic Church in its 2000-year history. He will be known as Pope Leo XIV. And speaking of the new Pope, he is evidently no big fan of his homeland's current political leadership. Deputy Liberal leader Sussan Ley has declared her candidacy to replace Peter Dutton and run the beleaguered party, declaring it had let Australian women down. Australia's richest person was, like most of the country, unhappy with the Liberal Party on Saturday night. But for different reasons to your average swing voter. The United States military has lost a second $93 million F/A-18 fighter jet into the Red Sea after another mishap aboard the aircraft carrier USS Harry S. Truman. Australia's most famous round ball athlete has welcomed a son, Jagger. 'Our little man is here, Jagger Mewis-Kerr,' said Sam Kerr in a post shared to Instagram which also features partner Kristie Mewis, a professional footballer from the US. Mewis carried the boy to term.
ABC News
29-04-2025
- Politics
- ABC News
Three-way contest in Bullwinkel heats up between Liberals, Labor and Nationals
It's the only new federal seat in the country this election – and it's anyone's guess who will win the semi-rural seat of Bullwinkel in WA, as each of its high-profile candidates struggle to resonate across the seat's vastly different demographics. WA's 16th seat covers a whopping 9,508 square kilometres, from the outskirts of Perth to the outer edge of the Wheatbelt region, where Perth's farming fringe collides with the metropolitan area. A notionally held Labor seat on a margin of 3.3 per cent, Bullwinkel is considered up for grabs, as Labor's nurse and local councillor Trish Cook, former WA Nationals leader Mia Davies and Liberal journalist-turned Army public affairs officer Matt Moran battle it out. But given the seat's diverse mash-up, there's an even bigger list of issues for candidates to cover — and the clock is ticking to win them over. The rural Wheatbelt Picturesque landscapes, a line out the door for sausage rolls at the local bakery and murals of sheep on old brick buildings — this is the rural town of Beverley. Bullwinkel stretches from Perth's metro fringe in the west to country towns like Beverley in the east. ( ABC News: West Mateeussen ) In the Wheatbelt part of the seat, it's not hard to guess who has the upper hand of the three high-profile candidates. Almost every person the ABC spoke to indicated they were voting for Mia Davies and had the Keep the Sheep campaign front of mind. Sheep at a property in Beverly, in WA's Wheatbelt region, where the 'Keep the Sheep' movement has been campaigning hard. ( ABC News: Courtney Withers ) The movement took off last year in response to Beverley Tyre Service owner Daniel Henderson fears ending the live sheep export trade would be "an epic cost to the economy", and said it provides a lifeline for locals. Beverley Tyre Service owner Daniel Henderson wants the live sheep trade to stay. ( ABC News: Courtney Withers ) "If it gets ripped out upon us, then a lot of farmers which are my customers, my clients around here ... get money taken off them," he said. Beverley local Jenny Broun also indicated Keep the Sheep is influencing who she'll be voting for on May 3. Beverley local Jenny Broun wants farmers to be looked after. ( ABC News: Courtney Withers ) "We have a farm in the district and I do feel concerned that the major parties aren't looking after the farmers as they should, so obviously the Nationals will be my vote," she said. There's no doubt the movement has aided Davies' quest for Bullwinkel, but her decision to "Matt Moran's doing a fantastic job in Bullwinkel and I believe he'll be elected as the next member," Mr Dutton said on the campaign trail. Voters in the rural part also identified cost of living, access to healthcare and rural neglect as issues they're thinking about in the lead-up to the poll. "We've got great doctors but the hospitals are just hopeless," Beverley local Dalene Davies said. Beverley local Dalene Davies is unhappy with the state of the area's hospitals. ( ABC News: Courtney Withers ) "My friend and I drove over [to Northam Hospital at Easter] ... that's a 150-kilometre round trip." The Hills In the Perth Hills, a different kind of cost-of-living pressure is being felt among primary producers. Willow Springs Orchard owners Davin and Kate Harris are in their third season at their Bedfordale property, but are struggling with increased business costs. Bullwinkel encompasses numerous orchards and farmlands. ( ABC News: Courtney Withers ) "Since COVID, the cost of fertiliser, chemical input, electricity input, your packaging ... fuel," Mr Harris said. "Instead of being able to get ahead and save, we're pretty much spending everything we earn." Stay updated: Catch the latest interviews and in-depth coverage on The pair have turned their orchard — which grows a variety of novelty fruits including persimmons, pomegranates and kiwis — into an agriculture-tourism mix with a coffee shop and fruit picking in a bid to drive more profit. Willow Springs Orchard owners Davin and Kate Harris. ( ABC News: Courtney Withers ) Mr Harris also worries about the housing crisis and how his children — aged 14, 10 and 9 — will be able to afford a property of their own. "I'm thinking $1 million is going to get them a unit in a suburb 30 kilometres out of Perth," he said. Perth suburbs In the part of the seat closest to the city, cost of living and housing pressures are at the fore for voters. The area includes suburbs like Forrestfield and High Wycombe — which held up for Labor at the recent state poll — and make up the most populous third. Read more about the federal election: Want even more? Here's where you can find all our 2025 High Wycombe local Teriane Herald, 33, has cost-of-living concerns and plans to vote for Greens candidate Abbey Bishop. High Wycombe local Teriane Herald is struggling to pay her rent. ( ABC News: Courtney Withers ) "Before I could do it easily by myself as a single mum, rented by myself, worked full-time ... now there's no way I could do it by myself, the rent in six years has jumped by $250 per week easily, it's hard it's really hard," she said. Three-horse race Labor's working hard to win over areas closer to the city with flagship policies like The Nationals and Liberals are both leaning into Keep the Sheep, the Nationals promising to overturn the live export ban as a first priority if elected. The ABC asked the three candidates during pre-polling the same question — how do you reach voters across such a large and diverse seat? Labor candidate for Bullwinkel Trish Cook. ( ABC News: Courtney Withers ) "It is diverse, it's the three distinct regions but overwhelmingly people have the same issues: access to affordable healthcare, cost of living relief," Labor's Trish Cook said. Nationals candidate Mia Davies took a grassroots approach. Mia Davies is the Nationals candidate in Bullwinkel. ( ABC News: Courtney Withers ) "In a nutshell, we are people and community first, politics a long way back," she said. And Liberals candidate Matt Moran was focused on practicalities. Matt Moran is the Liberal candidate for Bullwinkel and a former journalist. ( ABC News: Courtney Withers ) "The number one issue is cost of living ... and that's why we're offering 25c off every litre of fuel, a tax cut of up to $1200, helping first home buyers get into houses," he said. Having trouble seeing this form? Try Loading
