Good morning and welcome to our WAtoday live news blog for Wednesday, August 27, 2025.
Making headlines in the state today, former defence minister Linda Reynolds will learn whether she has succeeded in her defamation case against her ex-staffer Brittany Higgins, in one of the most closely watched legal battles to flow from the Parliament House rape saga.
The defamation case reaches its climax this week with the decision due to be handed down.Credit: Composite image/Holly Thompson
Justice Paul Tottle is due to deliver his decision in the WA Supreme Court this morning, after a bruising five weeks last year that laid bare years of political, personal and legal fallout.
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Meanwhile, Albany and Geraldton saw the strongest annual increases in house price growth in Australia’s regions, according to a new report which also lays bare the challenges facing regional renters.
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And Queensland’s Deputy Premier Jarrod Bleijie has told parliament the state will seek repayment of $65 million paid to billionaire Andrew “Twiggy” Forrest’s Fortescue Metals Group for an abandoned hydrogen energy project.
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