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By the time Tyson spent his 18th birthday in a detention cell, he had been incarcerated up to nine times. “Have you got yourself a dream? You don’t get asked that in there. They ask you when your next court date is.”

Tyson was 11 when he was first locked up. It took seven years to turn things around

Nobody in youth detention asked Tyson about his dreams - they asked about his court dates. Now he wants the prime minister to fix the system.

  • Natassia Chrysanthos

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Melbourne Zoo today (Wednesday, 7 November) has bid a tremendously sad farewell to iconic Mukulu, the oldest male Rothschild’s Giraffe in the Australasian Region.

Cook’s free Zoo tickets mean the die is well and truly cast for WA

After almost eight years in power, this government has got lazy, unimaginative, crass and ever-ready to use taxpayer dollars to grab happy headlines and votes.

  • Gary Adshead
WACOSS chief executive Louise Giolitto with a copy of the new report.

Fix WA cost of living now: Social services launch election pitch

The WA community services sector has come out swinging ahead of the state election saying the state has it in its power to act now on people’s suffering.

  • Emma Young
Senator Dean Smith / mortgage payments WA

Up to your eyeballs in debt? Join the club as WA mortgages break record

The average figure West Australians are taking out for mortgages has broken the record, jumping more than $30,000 in just three months.

  • Michael Genovese
Disability Minister Lizzie Blandthorn, left, with Premier Jacinta Allan in March this year.

Sixth government backflip in six months, this time on disability commissioner

The Allan government has quietly shelved a plan to axe the state’s disability commissioner on July 1, its sixth major policy walk-back in six months. 

  • Broede Carmody
Odette Zavos has been coming to St Mary’s House of Welcome for years to access support services and participate in art classes.

‘I feel loved’: St Mary’s House of Welcome brings Christmas to Melburnians sleeping rough

Every Christmas Day, this Fitzroy organisation provides people experiencing homelessness with everything from a three-course lunch to presents to hot showers.

  • Jewel Topsfield
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Lily Fetter received the benefits for her children.

‘Middle incomes miss out’: Why fewer families are eligible for tax benefit

The government’s largest family assistance scheme which was originally designed to help low and middle-income families now only reaches fewer than half of Australian children. 

  • Mary Ward
Julian Hill said when it comes to employment services “it’s obvious that full privatisation has failed”.

Private employment services have failed, watchdog is needed: Inquiry head

Julian Hill, who chaired a year-long inquiry into the $7 billion employment service sector, says privatisation has failed the unemployed and the country.

  • Shane Wright
Former Prime Minister Scott Morrison arrives for Question Time.

Morrison lashes out at robo-debt ‘political lynching’, rejects royal commission findings

The former prime minister has described the commission’s findings against him as “disproportionate, wrong, unsubstantiated and contradicted by clear evidence”.

  • James Massola
Maddi Eveleigh is studying medicine at the University of Sydney.

‘Wealthy families, private schools’: Have universities forgotten who their students really are?

Experts warn funding cuts have led to the rise of universities operating like corporations instead of public institutions. What spiky ideas can fix the sector?

  • Sherryn Groch, Lucy Carroll and Nicole Precel

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