As it happened: WA news on Wednesday, October 15

This masthead can reveal a total of 11 men have been charged with offences after the operation, three men from Perth’s suburbs and four from the country.

Three men, aged between 53 and 61, are from suburbs including Kenwick, Success, and Wanneroo.

Their charges include failing to store a firearm properly, being unlicensed and drug possession.

In the country, four men between the ages of 45 and 86 have been charged.

The men are from Bakers Hill near Northam, Sabina River in the South West, Merredin in the Wheatbelt and Muja near Collie.

Their charges also range from failing to store firearms properly, cultivating a prohibited plant and possessing, acquiring or supplying a prohibited accessory in circumstances of aggravation.

Four other men have also been charged via summons on other offences.

All 11 men’s court dates are scheduled for later this year.

As of 10 October 2025, 164 firearms had been seized so far.

He then referenced a council fighting a children’s hospice in reference to the Nedlands council; a council writing to his government urging for more housing while sending the state letters about “COVID conspiracies” in reference to the Port Hedland council; and a Green MP who “purports to love public transport and housing, yet opposes electric ferries on the Swan River and claims that they will cause dolphins to go dead” in reference to Greens leader Brad Pettitt.

He then lamented “residents living in homes with gum trees brushing against their gutters opposing developments citing bushfires”.

When WAtoday asked the premier whether he was referring to the North Stoneville opposition Cook said he was “characterising some of the arguments out there at the moment.”

“Every development obviously has to stand on its merits. But what we don’t want is a situation where people are unnecessarily opposing developments,” he said.

Unusually there is a glass wall dividing Justice Joseph McGrath, the lawyers, and Pye from the rest of the public gallery.

Outside, heavily armed police are also clustered around the court’s entrances.

Pye denies paying a former soldier for the hit on Martin, who was fatally shot in front of horrified onlookers, including his family, while watching the drag races.

The 35-year-old sniper has already admitted to his part in the killing and will be the prosecution’s first witness tomorrow morning.

“If we’re to maintain the impact and the returns that we and the broader community have enjoyed, we must continue to innovate, to invest and to adapt.”

Slattery said BHP’s relationship with China and the iron ore sector is “one that goes back decades and decades”.

“Commercial negotiations are a normal part of that, they happen every year, and yes, there’s been some speculation and press and often conflicting speculation, but I think the takeaway is we’ve got strong relationships with customers in China,” she said.

“This is a normal part of business, and I wouldn’t necessarily conflate the two.”

BHP has so far declined to confirm or deny reports that Beijing has ordered Chinese steel mills to stop buying shipments of iron ore from BHP’s mines in the Pilbara.

The reports come amid tense negotiations between China and BHP about prices for iron ore, the key raw material that is turned into steel inside giant blast furnaces.

Bishop predicted this type of foreign policy would continue for years to come if Republicans held the house and Senate in the midterms and won the next presidential election.

“It’s how other nations deal with this changing dynamic that will be of interest to our region and, of course, to Australia,” she said.

McGowan referred to the crowd at the WWE in Perth booing the US national anthem at the weekend as a demonstration of Donald Trump’s impact on the global standing of the United States.

“This is a WWE crowd. They normally were sort of more Trump-style people,” he said.

“So I think what’s happening within that is all these sort of tariffs and the attacks on friends and the attacks on traditional allies, and a sort of really abrasive and rude style has damaged America’s standing around the world.

“I don’t know if that will be able to be repaired. I don’t know if America wants to repair it.

“They don’t really seem to care too much about that, but I think that has long-term consequences.”

McGowan said Trump’s foreign policy had seen the rise of copycat leaders in other countries.

When asked about McGowan’s, comments Bishop quipped: “I would’ve said that, but I’m a diplomat.”