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Making news elsewhere was the revelation that the state’s public sector workers are paving the way for nine-day fortnights on the back of a new pay offer which was overwhelmingly voted in favour of by the public sector union.
The pay jump of 12.5 per cent over three years is less than the 12 per cent pay increase the union was seeking over two years and a push for four-day work weeks also failed.
However, under the new agreement workers will be able to work nine-day fortnights, but they will have to work the same number of hours as currently worked in a ten-day fortnight.
Meanwhile, the man who kidnapped Cleo Smith from a remote campsite north of Carnarvon has failed in his bid to have his sentence reduced.
Cleo was missing for 18 days before finally being found by police alone in a room at a property in Carnarvon on November 3.
Her kidnapping by 37-year-old Terence Darrell Kelly sparked one of the biggest police searches in WA history and made headlines worldwide.
And a new ad campaign from the state government aims to raise awareness of coercive control and the early signs of abuse.
Perth domestic violence survivor and advocate Sheree Schonian joined WA Premier Roger Cook and Family and Domestic Violence Prevention Minister Sabine Winton to officially launch the campaign.
Schonian said at 16, she was “swept off her feet” by her former partner but what followed was 16 years of hell that started with coercive control before building up to physical violence, sexual violence and threats to kill.
The mother of two teenagers said a campaign like this would have helped her identify the signs of the insidious practice while they were happening.
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