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As we sign off, we have broken down the latest Australian Bureau of Statistics data, which shows Western Australia has grown by 89,000 people in the past year – but without immigration, population growth would be at a crawl.
And bringing in workers from overseas to fill roles in traditionally male-dominated industries such as construction and mining may be behind a widening gender gap, with there currently about 12,434 more men than women in WA.
Read Claire Ottaviano and Sarah Brookes’ full report here.
Also making headlines today, crime reporter Rebecca Peppiatt revealed a Perth man who tried to convince a jury his partner of four years died after a knife that was holding up a curtain fell and accidently impaled her had been jailed for life.
And in politics, Minister Stephen Dawson called out the Curtin University students captured jeering at former Premier Mark McGowan during a campus visit, demanding institutions “clamp down” on such behaviour.
The former premier was branded a “murderer” and “torturer” as he was followed across the campus by several students chanting “f--- the ALP (Australian Labor Party)” in an incident on Wednesday, which was later circulated on social media.
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