In accordance with usual practice, the Honourable Chris Dawson AC APM, Governor of Western Australia, has today prorogued State Parliament.
Current Bills that have not passed through either house of State Parliament must now be introduced in the next session, following the State election on Saturday, 8 March 2025.
Parliamentary committees will also be suspended.
The Legislative Assembly will be formally dissolved in late January, at which point the 41st Parliament will cease to exist and a new Parliament will be sworn in after the election on 8 March.
Under Western Australia's fixed terms of Parliament legislation, the State election writs will be issued on Wednesday, 5 February 2025 and the caretaker period will then commence.
I thank all Members of the 41st Parliament for their contribution over the past four years.
During this term of Government, more than 140 Bills passed through the Parliament including:
- a once-in-a-generation rewrite of our firearm laws to get guns off the streets;
- the toughest anti-bikie crackdown in the country;
- further protections for victim-survivors of family and domestic violence;
- the establishment of Protected Entertainment Precincts and Knife Wanding Areas;
- overhauls to the State planning system to speed up housing builds;
- reforms to residential tenancy laws to make renting fairer for tenants;
- boosts to stamp duty concessions for first-home buyers and off-the-plan apartments;
- reformed environmental approval laws to fast-track job-creating projects, while protecting the environment;
- the decriminalisation of abortion; and
- improved fairness and transparency in the electoral system.
I would also like to acknowledge the Members who are retiring from State Parliament following the State election and wish them well as they embark on the next chapter in their lives.
