Innocent man Terrance Flowers.

‘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.

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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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The WA private schools that received the highest JobKeeper payments in 2020.

‘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.

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The Australian Brewhouse. has closed indefinitely over WA’s vaccine 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.

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Jason Murtagh,51,was charged over racist online posts and false police reports.

‘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.

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 Premier Mark McGowan is set to reveal his new guidance on close contacts.

‘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.

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WA’s highest fee-charging schools increase annual charge to match pre-pandemic levels.

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.

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WA Premier Mark McGowan.

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.

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Ezra Holt with fiance Sarah McDonald.

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.

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Back to school logistics now includes sorting out vaccine passports.

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.

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