Western Australia gave One Nation a first. Luke Herdegen won the Secret Harbour by-election on 29 August 2026, which made him the party's first lower-house MP in WA. The fallout hasn't stopped. The ABC named a booth volunteer from a 2023 tribunal finding. And Andrew Hastie, who holds Canning south of Perth, has called Hanson and Barnaby Joyce lying cowards as One Nation plans to run against him. There's also a US admiral's AUKUS visit to talk dry docks at Henderson, south of Fremantle, and the opening of St John of God Midland Private Hospital. It's all here.
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ABC names One Nation booth volunteer from 2023 tribunal finding
The ABC has named David Donis, the subject of a 2023 tribunal finding on neo-Nazi ideologies, as a One Nation booth volunteer at Secret Harbour.Henderson Gets the AUKUS Visit
Rear Adm. Douglas J. Adams's AUKUS visit put dry docks at Henderson, WA, on the record. Richard Marles says the first Virginia sub is still due in 2032.Hastie calls Hanson and Joyce lying cowards
Andrew Hastie has called Pauline Hanson and Barnaby Joyce "lying cowards" after they denied calling him a traitor over a One Nation cartoon.One Nation takes Secret Harbour
Luke Herdegen is One Nation’s first Western Australian lower-house MP after the 29 August 2026 by-election. Labor’s Georgia Tree conceded on 30 August.St John of God Midland Private Hospital opens with 123 beds
St John of God Midland Private Hospital opened 27 August 2026. 123 beds in the old railway workshops. Sixty public beds come back with the move.
