Keane Bourke is a state political reporter at ABC News WA. He joined ABC News in 2019 as a multi-platform reporter and photojournalist.
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After the attacks on Helen Haines and the office of Hannah Beazley, lawmakers in Western Australia are growing worried about the rising political tensions, and want more ways to defuse them.
A man who allegedly threatened staff at Hannah Beazley's electorate office was known to police, the commissioner reveals, as he urges politicians not to retreat from their communities.
A man charged over an allegedly threatening incident at Labor MP Hannah Beazley's electorate office tells a Perth court he was holding a musical instrument, not a weapon, as police allege.
WA politicians voice concerns about an increasingly hostile political landscape, and the limited options available to address it, after the attack on federal MP Helen Haines.
The giant resource basin off WA's Kimberley coast has eluded oil and gas players for decades, and fresh analysis argues it should stay that way, despite a last-ditch bid by Woodside and its partners to seize the prize.
More people, from all walks of life, including dual income families, are becoming homeless, sector workers say, as rising rents and the cost of living bites.
A mentally impaired man is kept in jail illegally because of a chronic lack of beds in Western Australia's only psychiatric facility caring for prisoners.
Architects have been called in by WA's Justice Department on an $87,000 contract to explore converting an unused quarantine facility in Perth's north-east into a prison.
Taxpayers are funding the reopening of the Austral factory, which the government hopes will help address the shortage of bricks plaguing the construction industry.
Topic: Housing Construction Industry
The Western Australian government wanted "immunity from liability" in cases brought by child sex abuse victim-survivors like Dion Barber, but the Supreme Court ruled against it.
The Local Government Inspector launches further investigation into problems at the City of Perth.
Scrutiny and abuse are all in a day's work for politicians, but for Liberal, Labor and One Nation representatives in Western Australia, social media has proved to be a particularly nasty beast this week.
Independent senator Jacqui Lambie and others from across the political spectrum launch a spirited defence of Andrew Hastie after One Nation published a cartoon that repeatedly described the Liberal frontbencher and veteran as a "traitor".
An advertising campaign by Western Australia's government to promote the state's efforts to transition to renewable energy is blasted by the opposition as a waste of money.
The WA government unveils revised plans for the new Women and Babies Hospital, including upgraded infant transfer facilities, but the doctors' lobby is unimpressed.
Labor will be conducting a post-mortem of its crushing defeat in the Secret Harbour by-election to see where it went wrong. But One Nation's win has wider implication for all major parties across Australia.
The Labor and Liberal parties are beginning to lick their wounds after suffering a bruising defeat in a by-election in Perth's south, as One Nation celebrates its historic victory.
A breakthrough by-election in the west raises difficult questions for both Labor and the Liberals.
One Nation scores a historic win in Western Australia, securing its first lower house seat in the state.
Can One Nation break into a Labor heartland? Vote counting is underway in Western Australia as the polls close in the Secret Harbour by-election.
Two of WA parliament's biggest personalities are staring down the barrel of a legal fight, with Greens politician Sophie McNeill taking the first step towards suing Nationals counterpart Lachlan Hunter.
Topic: State and Territory Parliament
The WA government will scrap the use of good character references in court cases, which allow convicted criminals to receive reduced sentences.
Topic: State and Territory Government
One Nation's popularity is skyrocketing in opinion polls across the east coast. But next Saturday's Secret Harbour by-election will be the first clear test of whether that momentum is extending across the Nullarbor.
Western Australia's parliament suspends Nationals MP Lachlan Hunter for four days after he used a debate to call out what he branded an "antisemitic" art exhibit that displayed the names of children killed in Gaza.
Topic: State and Territory Parliament
The Land Forces defence expo was the site of ugly clashes when it was last held in Melbourne. As its next edition approaches in Perth, the WA government wants to give police more power for "public order".
