The concept designs for the proposal at 27-35 Outram Street in West Perth lodged by Hancock Prospecting.

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Australia has a maths problem. One in three of our school students fail to achieve proficiency in maths.

WA students with ‘maths dyslexia’ fall through the cracks as crisis worsens

The low percentage of WA students excelling in maths means those with the learning disorder dyscalculia are falling through the cracks.

  • Holly Thompson
Images of WA drivers show some of the shocking behaviour caught since January.

Thousands of WA drivers caught flouting road rules by new cameras

More than 60,000 incidents have been detected by the cameras since January,with the Road Safety Commission warning drivers to stop the “disturbing and upsetting” behaviour as the Easter long weekend approaches.

  • Holly Thompson
2025 Federal Election. Opposition leader Peter Dutton at the Western Australian Leadership Matters breakfast at the Crown Casino,Perth in the division of Swan. Mr Dutton is the guest speaker. Friday 11th April 2025. Photo:James Brickwood. SMH NEWS 250411.

As it happened:WA news on Friday,April 11

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  • Holly Thompson
WA Premier Roger Cook and Opposition Leader Basil Zempilas arrive at Parliament House for the first day.

As it happened:WA news on Tuesday,April 8

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  • Holly Thompson andDaile Cross
Mason Farmer was attacked at Edney Primary School.

‘Listen to us’:Parents want more power for schools to deal with bullies after son,8,attacked

Mason Farmer was hospitalised after he was attacked on the playground at a primary school in Perth’s eastern suburbs by a child the same age as him.

  • Holly Thompson
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Perth’s highest-median suburbs in the March 2025 quarter,according to Domain homepage image.

Rents soar in Perth’s most in-demand school zones

The cost to rent a house in some of Perth’s most in-demand school catchment areas has ballooned in a year,in one suburb by more than 50 per cent.

  • Holly Thompson
A ridge building in the Bight is expected to combine with a deepening trough off the west coast to produce a vigorous easterly airstream over parts of southwestern Western Australia tonight.

As it happened:WA news on Friday,April 4

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  • Holly Thompson
Matthew Hayland,17,has been left paralysed.

Perth teenager breaks neck in freak beach accident

The freak accident at Mullaloo Beach has prompted the boy’s mother to give an emotional plea to others to take care.

  • Ezra Holt andHolly Thompson
Both teachers have had their teaching licences disqualified.

WA high school teachers banned for sexualising female students

Court documents have revealed that in both cases,the men’s conduct was “so serious that it is likely to bring the teaching profession into disrepute”.

  • Holly Thompson