WA top cop wants new stop and search laws to âwipe outâ meth supply at interstate border
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Police Commissioner Chris Dawson wants more powers to stop and search vehicles entering Western Australia from interstate in an ambitious plan to âwipe outâ the stateâs drug syndicates.
WA Police Commissioner Chris Dawson.
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Speaking to Radio 6PR on Wednesday, Mr Dawson said the impacts of the pandemic and WAâs border controls had reduced crime by âalmost halfâ and led to a 23 per cent reduction in methamphetamine use.
WA is in a rolling state of emergency, giving police additional powers with no end date yet known.
WA Premier Mark McGowan backtracks on keeping border controls beyond pandemic
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West Australian Premier Mark McGowan has backtracked on a plan to explore keeping border restrictions in place beyond the COVID-19 state of emergency.
Amid methamphetamine use dropping 23 per cent in WA, Mr McGowan said on Tuesday morning he was in talks with Police Commissioner Chris Dawson to explore the legality of extending controlled border measures like the G2G entry pass system post-pandemic.
Border controls could remain for WA into next year.
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A few hours later, after flying to Kalgoorlie from Perth, he said the G2G system would not be extended once the state of emergency was lifted.
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Laborâs deal with Shooters reminiscent of Liberalsâ controversial 2017 preference swap: expert
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A preference deal with the Shooters, Fishers and Farmers Party will likely help the minor party more than WA Labor, a leading political academic says.
University of Notre Dame political analyst Martin Drum said the deal had similarities to an agreement the Colin Barnett-led Liberals struck with One Nation ahead of the 2017 state election, which had no benefit for the Liberals but ended up helping One Nation secure three seats in the upper house.
Secessionists among the minor parties hoping to win seats in WA Parliament at March poll
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The debate over whether WA should break away from the rest of Australia goes back a long way. Here secessionists hold a proposed flag for the state in 1934.
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Western Australia was turned into an island within an island for the better part of 2020 as part of the state s COVID-19 strategy, prompting jokes about whether WA should just go ahead and make its hard border permanent by seceding from the rest of the country.
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