‘Very happy’:Seven West Media pays out man wrongfully accused of Cleo Smith abduction

‘Very happy’:Seven West Media pays out man wrongfully accused of Cleo Smith abduction

Seven West Media has been forced to pay out the man wrongfully identified in news reports as Cleo Smith’s abductor.

  • byLauren Pilat

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

  • byAja Styles andLauren Pilat
‘Obscene greed’:WA’s priciest schools rake in fat JobKeeper profits
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JobKeeper

‘Obscene greed’:WA’s priciest schools rake in fat JobKeeper profits

An eight-month investigation has revealed WA’s most elite private schools had their “snouts in the trough” of JobKeeper,enabling them to record hefty profits.

  • byLauren Pilat
‘We don’t discriminate’:Perth bar closes to avoid WA’s COVID-19 vaccination mandate

‘We don’t discriminate’:Perth bar closes to avoid WA’s COVID-19 vaccination mandate

A Port Coogee tavern lasted only 18 months following a social media storm over Monday’s new rules and having already been weighed down by staff shortages.

  • byLauren Pilat
‘Woden the Bogan’ tests Australian power to police online racism
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‘Woden the Bogan’ tests Australian power to police online racism

Meet the first person in WA charged with publishing material to incite racial hatred,and the first to test Australia’s power to police racist social media posts.

  • byAja Styles andLauren Pilat
‘WA sitting on a knife’s edge’:Experts call for more public health measures

‘WA sitting on a knife’s edge’:Experts call for more public health measures

Unless WA wants to end up in the same position as some eastern states with tens of thousands of cases a day,it’s got to put public health measures in place now – it cannot wait,University of South Australia professor of biostatistics Adrian Esterman says.

  • byLauren Pilat
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WA school fees return to pre-pandemic levels as COVID costs bite

WA school fees return to pre-pandemic levels as COVID costs bite

Sending students to Western Australia’s priciest private schools has never been more expensive.

  • byLauren Pilat
WA records another 24 COVID-19 cases,shortens booster wait times

WA records another 24 COVID-19 cases,shortens booster wait times

West Australians will be able to get a third COVID-19 vaccination three months after their second dose as of Monday.

  • byLauren Pilat
Last major Australian airport to open:Perth Airport braces for influx of travellers from February 5

Last major Australian airport to open:Perth Airport braces for influx of travellers from February 5

Melbourne nurse Sarah McDonald,24,said the wait to be reunited with her fiance in Perth had been riddled with anxiety and she didn’t want to get her hopes up in case her February 5 arrival in WA didn’t go ahead.

  • byLauren Pilat
With back-to-school in three weeks,WA Education forced to chase teachers for vaccine status

With back-to-school in three weeks,WA Education forced to chase teachers for vaccine status

The department is scurrying to ensure thousands of staff provide proof of vaccination before the January deadline in its last-ditch effort to bolster faculties.

  • byLauren Pilat andPeter de Kruijff
Students accused of plotting to kill Willetton Senior High School teacher to face judge next month

Students accused of plotting to kill Willetton Senior High School teacher to face judge next month

The girls,who are both on bail,did not acknowledge one another during their court appearances on Tuesday and left separately with their parents,both refusing to talk to journalists.

  • byLauren Pilat