Vietnam veteran Norm Heslington has lived in Australia for 70 years, but has been denied from calling himself Australian.“All my life I’ve struggled to...

On Saturday, Australia categorically snubbed The Voice.It was a landslide win for the ‘no’ campaign, with all states and the NT voting against a...

Canning MP Andrew Hastie hosted the eighth annual Canning Shakespeare Competition on Saturday, where the spotlight shone on the exceptional performance of Foundation Christian...

 Your local members are set to don their lycra in an effort to raise funds for special forces veterans and their families.For the first...

Budding young performers from across Perth’s south-east have taken to the stage to perform monologues from Shakespeare’s works as part of the annual Canning...

The Liberal Party campaign failed to connect with average Australians leading to a general swing against the government, according to federal member for Canning...

Voters in the Federal Seat of Canning will head to the polls for the fourth time in four years at the weekend following a...

Member for Canning Andrew Hastie has admitted it was ‘unrealistic’ to get the Coalition Government to commit funding for a solution to congestion around...

Member for Canning Andrew Hastie told business leaders in Armadale last week he supported dropping penalty rates for weekend workers.Mr Hastie was speaking as...

The loss of all three federal Labor lower house members from Western Australia is an opportunity to create a strong Labor team according to...

The new member for Canning Andrew Hastie has used his first speech to parliament to tout his experience in the defence force, saying it...

Matt Keogh is more set on politics than ever and ‘was interested’ in running for the Labor party again at next year’s federal election...

Saturday’s Canning by-election had one of the worst voter turnouts in recent election history.As at 1.30pm on Tuesday only 87,353 votes had been received...

Liberal Andrew Hastie has won the federal seat of Canning with more than 55 per cent of the two-party preferred vote.Labor’s Matt Keogh received...

Canning voters have hit the polls today in what has been one of the most important by-election campaigns in federal political history.Labor candidate Matt...

While the nation stopped to take in having a fifth prime minister in five years this week, the candidates in this Saturday’s Canning by-election...

Liberal candidate for Canning Andrew Hastie would push for the introduction of mandatory sentencing for crimes involving ice.It followed an earlier announcement of a...

Labor’s Canning by-election candidate Matt Keogh was banking on dissatisfied electors using their vote to protest against the current government to help him get...

Liberal Canning by-election candidate Andrew Hastie said the biggest thing he had learnt over the past four weeks was that residents in the electorate...

The federal electorate of Canning has the highest uptake of solar energy generation in the country and Australian solar council chief executive John Grimes...

A change in the country’s top job had little impact on the minds of some Canning voters who seemed more excited about a respite...

Canning voters will get one of their last chances to question candidates before Saturday’s by-election tomorrow morning in Jull Street mall, Armadale.ABC 720 will...

Malcolm Turnbull has won the challenge against Prime Minister Tony Abbott 54 votes to 44.Julie Bishop will remain Deputy Liberal Leader winning the ballot...

Malcolm Turnbull has challenged Prime Minister Tony Abbott’s leadership less than a week out from the Canning by-election.Foreign Affairs Minister Julie Bishop was believed...

The federal government would deliver $116 million for the Armadale Road duplication between Anstey and Tapper roads.Prime Minister Tony Abbott made the announcement in...

Prime Minister Tony Abbott experienced congestion at Denny Avenue, Kelmscott today and Canning candidate Andrew Hastie hopes he can get a commitment for funding...

Minor parties have offered up 10 candidates for the September 19 Canning by-election to run along with Labor’s Matt Keogh and Liberal’s Andrew Hastie....

Canning by-election independent candidate Teresa van Lieshout said she would not hand herself in despite an arrest warrant being issued after she failed to...

Prime Minister Tony Abbott said last week small businesses had been acknowledged in a way they had never been previously by a federal government...

With the Canning by-election fast approaching on September 19, journalists Amy Blom and Hamish Hastie took to the streets of Armadale and Byford to...

Problem level crossings like the Wharf Street level crossing in Queens Park would be replaced with grade separations under a strategy unveiled by the...

The Liberals set down plans for a local taskforce into ice addiction today, hot on the heels of Labor funding promises for drug and...

Business Armadale president Paul Harrison said the Canning by-election was an opportunity for businesses to raise the need for infrastructure with politicians.He said the...

Prime Minister Tony Abbott was shocked by footage of a brazen attack on a pregnant woman in an Armadale street on June 28 but...

With a street named after his mother’s family, being born and bred in Kelmscott and a spudshed shopper, there is no question Labor candidate...

Major Armadale infrastructure and road projects hit the federal radar after opposition leader Bill Shorten committed to a combined $170 million in funding to...

Twelve candidates will contest the 2015 Canning federal by-election, the Australian electoral commission (AEC) announced today.As well as the major parties including Liberal, Labor,...

WA Labor has used the federal Canning by-election to announce it would open Armadale police station 24/7 if elected at the next state election.An...

Labor candidate for Canning Matt Keogh, 33, was banking on his local connection to the area and policies on employment and training as selling...

Canning Liberal candidate Andrew Hastie said infrastructure, crime, small business and mobile black spots had stood out to him as issues for Canning residents.He...

Don’t be surprised if you get a knock on the door from one of Australia’s most powerful women Foreign Minister Julie Bishop soon. The...

Transport Minister Dean Nalder said the state government should have some ideas about how to address traffic issues at Denny Avenue, Kelmscott in the...

Member for Gosnells Chris Tallentire has apologised for any upset caused by a retweet regarding Federal Canning candidate Andrew Hastie but said he had...

The City of Gosnells would continue to lobby for the introduction of online voting for local government elections to increase voter turnout.Voter turnout was...

The Labor party and Palmer United party (PUP) officially announced their candidates for the September 19 by-election Canning today.Opposition party leader Bill Shorten and...

The Canning by-election will be held on September 19 after newly appointed speaker Tony Smith issued a writ today.The by-election for the federal seat...

Parliamentary sittings resumed today in Canberra following a six-week break with the first day being dedicated to commemorating member for Canning Don Randall.Prime Minister...

The funeral of Member for Canning Don Randall, who died suddenly on July 21 aged 62 will be held on July 31.It will be...

Federal member for Canning Don Randall passed away doing what he loved his family said in a statement released this afternoon. “A piece of us...

Don Randall’s unexpected death will leave a gaping hole in his federal electorate of Canning.Without any warning he became a part of history on...

WA politicians from both state and federal levels have reacted with shock at the sudden death of their colleague Don Randall.Member for Darling Range...

Tributes have poured in for Federal Member for Canning Don Randall following his sudden death this week.Mr Randall was found unresponsive in his car...

The federal electorate of Canning would undergo a by-election triggered by the death of its incumbent member Don Randall.There have been 67 federal by-elections...

The state government was aware of the traffic issues at Denny Avenue but there were higher priority level crossings to address according to Transport...

The campaign for action at Denny Avenue has stepped up with both state and federal members for the area raising the issue with the...

Despite alarming crash statistics nothing more will be done to Denny Avenue in Kelmscott to remove congestion except the addition of another set of...

Almost two decades of congestion problems and pedestrian incidents around Denny Avenue level crossing in Kelmscott were set to continue with the government departments...