Parents and children will find out later this week about further changes to COVID safety rules for 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.

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Kenneth Williams,pictured,and his Camillo home seized under criminal confiscation laws.

‘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.

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Clive Palmer’s Mineralogy will clash over CITIC’s $18 billion Sino Iron project in WA’s Pilbara,with CITIC Pacific ceo Chen Zeng.

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.

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Uber index Perth WAtoday rideshare surge

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.

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Interference in administration of justice? Last year’s case involved the Attorney-General John Quigley;Children’s Court Magistrate Catherine Crawford and Children’s Court president Hylton Quail.

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.

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Pamella and Chris Fink’s fight over their son Cohen’s death in year 12 has ended in the Supreme Court.

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.

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Accommodation quarters in Banksia Hill Detention Centre have changed since this picture was taken.

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.

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Fears it’s only a matter of time before a riot ignites at Banksia Hill Detention Centre.

‘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.

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Caged:Banksia Hill Detenion centre’s ISU exercise pen.

‘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.

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The forgotten children of lockdown in WA are experiencing conditions worse than those afforded murderers.

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’.

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