Probably the most startling thing about WA, in my mind, is its long and popular secessionist history.

Things in the west rarely seem to work the way they do anywhere else. Nowhere more so than the media landscape, which is dominated by Kerry Stokes’ Seven West Media and The West Australian. This week INQ plunged into his world. Emily Watkins laid out how The West Australian changed after it became the only paper in town.

Elsewhere in the media this week, ABC’s Four Corners covered the ongoing shame of the Witness K case. Academic Clinton Fernandes gives us the context Four Corners missed.

CLINTON FERNANDES 4 minute read

Four Corners got the facts straight on how the Witness K scandal was born, but there is more to the story.

GEORGIA WILKINS 4 minute read

The father of one of George Pell's victims might feel justice is finally being done, but he still feels anger toward Pell and the Church.

CHARLIE LEWIS and AMBER SCHULTZ 3 minute read

Ian Robertson is one of the most influential people you may have never heard of.

DAN HOGAN 4 minute read

There's no shortage of innovative, smart and dedicated teachers. The real question is, why do these people want to leave the industry?

AMY THOMAS 4 minute read

Australia's policy imagination is moored in disciplinary logic. Maya Newell's new doco shows the harm that can cause.

CHRIS WOODS 3 minute read

A late night flurry of protest and advocacy at Melbourne Airport and around the country has saved a Tamil family from being deported for the time being.

GLENN DYER 4 minute read

The biggest question in Australian media could soon have an answer, with one of the smartest men in the industry set to oversee the future of Seven West Media.

BEN ELTHAM 4 minute read

The arts sector is in the middle of a brutal tournament for small-to-medium funding. Under this government, there's no end in sight.

GLENN DYER and BERNARD KEANE 3 minute read

Donald Trump is wrecking shareholder wealth with his wild attacks on his own appointees and an increasingly aggressive trade war with China.

CHRISTOPHER SHACKLEY 3 minute read

Anecdotally, there are many tales of people rising from humble backgrounds to accomplish great things... but I am yet to meet too many of them.

ISABELLA TRIMBOLI 4 minute read

The new film has drawn huge praise and intense ire, but the director says it's ultimately been misinterpreted. Are audiences just ignorant about Australian history?

BERNARD KEANE 3 minute read

Treasurer Josh Frydenberg has acknowledge that Australian business would simply waste tax cuts on share buybacks and increased dividends. But he's otherwise not sure how to raise our flagging productivity.

CHRIS WOODS and KISHOR NAPIER-RAMAN 3 minute read

The former deputy PM has only leaned into his loose-unit image since being demoted to the backbench — and it's winning him votes.

MARGOT SAVILLE 3 minute read

An auction of Bob Kawke's items included several hideous objects given to him by overseas governments, bits of furniture from the house, and many truly terrible Icelandic paintings.