Science / Western Australia

WA premier backflips on desalination plant amid $543m pipeline upgrade

ABC News Jarrod Lucas and Daniel Holmes

5 Oct 2026 18:18 AEDT Summary

Water Supply Water Resources Politics

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Work has begun on a $543 million upgrade to Western Australia's Goldfields water pipeline.

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Niral Score 85.3 · mostly calm anxiety-riddencalm

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Sentiment -0.1 hostilefavourable Political diction 0 A story about politics, written without coded language Sourcing 60 unattributednamed sources Mood 54.8 sorrowjoyful

4 read zero: generational, gender, jingoistic, religious

Generational 0 harder on the oldharder on the young Gender 0 no gendered framingframing throughout Jingoistic 0 reports to a readerwrites from a camp Religious 0 not invokedovert

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ABC Newsas they published this story	85.3

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