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Connor McGoverne

Connor McGoverne

Connor McGoverne is a federal politics reporter for 9News.

Tania Constable, Minerals Council of Australia chief executive, at the Financial Review Mining Summit 2025 in Perth.
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More jobs, more houses: Mining giants push government to pilot AI

The head of the peak body for the nation’s miners says it takes about 16 years between getting a project idea off the ground to a final decision and construction. AI could change that.

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urtin MP Kate Chaney, Peppermint Grove, Dalkeith, Cottesloe, negative gearing, main picture. Picture: WAtoday

The Perth electorate where wealthy voters want to see negative gearing overhauled

Perth’s most prestigious pocket overwhelmingly supports winding back property tax breaks despite being among their biggest beneficiaries, “surprising” survey results have revealed.

  • Connor McGoverne
Italian soccer giants AC Milan were lined up for an historic Serie A fixture – in Perth.

Perth’s historic AC Milan ‘match for points’ game in tatters

The match-up was set to be the first European league match played for points on foreign soil, and was in October “reluctantly approved” by the continent’s governing body UEFA.

  • Owen Leonard and Connor McGoverne
The WA government has walked back its promise that the courts would be forced to impose GPS monitoring on high-risk or repeat domestic violence offenders.

WA Labor walks back ‘mandatory’ domestic violence monitoring pledge

Judges are not implementing WA’s family and domestic violence laws mandating the monitoring of repeat offenders, as the state government walks back its declaration that courts would be compelled to impose them.

  • Connor McGoverne
The woman spoke out about her own experience with domestic violence.

‘He said he would burn the evidence off’: Domestic violence survivor says she was failed by ankle monitoring

Kelly North, who lived in a regional town, said she was perpetually moving between short-stay accommodations to flee her alleged attacker who left her “half-dead” through sexual assault, and doused her in hot water to allegedly ‘burn any evidence off’.

  • Connor McGoverne
The proposed QEll site.

New maternity hospital at QEII being canvassed in big health backflip

The state government is now considering a new site for a Perth maternity hospital, which could deliver up to 2000 babies a year.

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Jack (second from right) with Mitch, mother Belinda and father Brett.

Their teen son was stabbed to death, now Brett and Belinda are stopping Perth parents from facing the same fate

Jack Beasley was killed on a night out on the Gold Coast in 2019. Since his death, his parents have dedicated themselves to tougher knife laws and education campaigns.

  • Connor McGoverne
WA Premier Roger Cook is about to set off on a trade mission to China and Japan.

WA premier’s trade mission to talk green steel, LNG... and uranium?

On the eve of an energy-focused trade mission to China and Japan, Premier Roger Cook has softened his language on the WA government’s uranium mining ban.

  • Connor McGoverne
Disgraced soldier Ben Roberts-Smith appealed all the way to the High Court and lost in his defamation case.

Albanese backs War Memorial council despite prize fiasco

The council effectively overturned a decision by a judging panel to give a major literary award to a book on disgraced soldier Ben Roberts-Smith.

  • Nick Bonyhady and Connor McGoverne
WA Premier Roger Cook.

‘Changing nature of political careers’ behind board wait time cut, Cook says

WA Premier Roger Cook has defended his decision to halve the wait time for former members of parliament to be remunerated on state government boards.

  • Connor McGoverne