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Australian online news outlet

Television channel

HeadquartersPerth, Western Australia

OwnerWest Australasian Media Network Pty Ltd

LaunchedJanuary 2013

FounderIvan Leung

WAMN News
Ownership
Headquarters	Perth, Western Australia
Owner	West Australasian Media Network Pty Ltd
History
Launched	January 2013
Founder	Ivan Leung
Links
Website	wamnnews.com.au

WAMN News (also known as WAMN News Online or simply WAMN) is an Australian online news outlet based in Perth, Western Australia. It livestreams press conferences on its Facebook page, and airs a weekly news bulletin.^[1]^[2]

WAMN News was founded by journalist Ivan Leung in January 2013. Leung had previously founded DHK News in 2007, which covered news in Perth and Hong Kong.^[3]^[4]

Talk-back radio host Howard Sattler joined WAMN as a contributor in 2014 after being fired from radio station 6PR over a controversial interview with former Prime Minister Julia Gillard, in which he asked her whether her partner Tim Mathieson was gay.^[5]^[6]

WAMN won the Communications Award at the 2021 Western Australian Multicultural Awards, hosted by the Western Australian government's Office of Multicultural Interests.^[7]

Former ABC political reporter Peter Kennedy joined WAMN in early 2022.^[8]

As of December 2023, WAMN has over 55,000 followers on Facebook.^[9]

References

↑ "Indigenous death highlights urgency of WA homelessness crisis". National Indigenous Times.
↑ "Police shoot dead 16yo who stabbed man in WA". ABC Listen. 5 May 2024. A picture captured from the scene in Willetton overnight by local media outlet WAMN News
↑ "Students make headlines of their own". Murdoch University.
↑ "ABC 7.30 Report interviews Ivan Leung from DHK News". YouTube. DHKChannel.
↑ Orr, Aleisha (14 June 2013). "Howard Sattler sacked by 6PR". WAtoday.
↑ "Former radio host Howard Sattler dies in Perth". www.abc.net.au. 11 June 2021.
↑ "WA's champions of multiculturalism". Department of Local Government, Sport and Cultural Industries.
↑ "McGowan's Majority: Two Years On". 6 News Australia.
↑ "WAMN News". Facebook. WAMN News.

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