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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
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
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
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Taxis
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
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
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
Opinion
Detention centres
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
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’
“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
Investigation
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
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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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