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Aja Styles is a senior writer for WAtoday and 2021 Arthur Lovekin winner for her investigations into higher education. Aja also served as a national digital Culture editor at The Age.

Sourcing masks may prove testing as level two restrictions start at WA primary schools

Sourcing masks may prove testing as level two restrictions start at WA primary schools

The Pharmacy Guild of Western Australia warns that child-sized masks are more difficult to find even for hospitals.

  • by Aja Styles

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‘Easy prey’: How state of WA took a man’s house over five cannabis plants
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‘Easy prey’: How state of WA took a man’s house over five cannabis plants

The WA government took the 65-year-old’s only retirement asset, while it sat on an official recommendation to change the archaic law that created the situation.

  • by Aja Styles
Clive Palmer ‘megatrial’ probes dealings with Chinese in Pilbara

Clive Palmer ‘megatrial’ probes dealings with Chinese in Pilbara

The trial already involves nearly 1000 documents in 84 lever arch files, but the magnate said he would be “denied natural justice” if he couldn’t delay for more.

  • by Aja Styles
Uber frustrating: Perth rideshare drivers find new ways to price-gouge
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Uber frustrating: Perth rideshare drivers find new ways to price-gouge

Perth Uber drivers struggling to make ends meet are urging each other not to accept ‘non-surge jobs’ near the city so they can drive fares to ‘surge’ heights.

  • by Aja Styles
Concerns raised over extension of Children’s Court president’s powers

Concerns raised over extension of Children’s Court president’s powers

The shadow attorney-general has labelled a bill before Parliament a ‘repugnant piece of legislative cake’, created in the wake of allegations of evidence tampering and bullying within the judicial bench.

  • by Aja Styles
Department never sought to whitewash teen’s death, WA Supreme Court rules

Department never sought to whitewash teen’s death, WA Supreme Court rules

The WA coroner’s ability to recommend schools improve health and safety, and prevent further student suicides, was ruled not a sufficient cause for an inquest.

  • by Aja Styles
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WA’s treatment of children in prison is tantamount to torture, but we are the ones who should be scared?

WA’s treatment of children in prison is tantamount to torture, but we are the ones who should be scared?

When asked to comment about Banksia Hill’s hellish conditions creating “monsters”, Premier Mark McGowan donned his state defender cape against the evil tyranny clearly wrought by children as young as 10.

  • by Aja Styles
‘Catastrophic’ safety fears over chronic staff shortages at Perth children’s prison

‘Catastrophic’ safety fears over chronic staff shortages at Perth children’s prison

Banksia Hill Detention Centre has been labelled “a tinderbox” by the state’s prison officers union after a Perth court revealed children being locked down for months by chronic understaffing, but the Minister says he has not been told about it.

  • by Aja Styles
‘If you want a monster this is how you do it’: WA judge slams prison he says ‘treated a child like an animal’

‘If you want a monster this is how you do it’: WA judge slams prison he says ‘treated a child like an animal’

“When you treat a damaged child like an animal, they will behave like one,” President of the Children’s Court Hylton Quail said of a 15-year-old boy’s treatment in Banksia Hill Detention Centre.

  • by Aja Styles
Caged, isolated, scared: Why Perth Children’s Court president would rather send kids to an adult prison
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Detention centres

Caged, isolated, scared: Why Perth Children’s Court president would rather send kids to an adult prison

WA’s Banksia Hill Detention Centre houses children from age 10. Judge Hylton Quail told a 17-year-old: ‘The conditions at Banksia at the moment are very bad and it is frankly a consideration in my deciding now to send you somewhere else because the older boys who I’ve sent to prison have done better in prison’.

  • by Aja Styles and Lauren Pilat
Freight trucks ignite as homes, businesses burn across ‘unprecedented’ fronts in WA
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Bushfires

Freight trucks ignite as homes, businesses burn across ‘unprecedented’ fronts in WA

Homes have been destroyed, schools closed, residents evacuated and NSW firefighters sent to relieve exhausted local teams, as fires engulf vast stretches of WA.

  • by Sarah Brookes and Aja Styles

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