WA Premier Mark McGowan said he was told during a recent visit to Carnarvon that greed was the reason some liquor licensees were holding out against alcohol restrictions.
Ben Dawkins created a political headache for the McGowan government after pleading guilty to 42 counts of breaching a family violence restraining order.
A parliamentary committee has been tasked with examining the issue after lobbying from the state Liberal opposition.
Youth crime in regional towns such as Carnarvon,Laverton,Broome and Kununurra has become a hot-button issue for the McGowan government in the past 12 months.
The Burrup Peninsula in WA - home of more than one million Indigenous rock engravings up to 40,000 years old - is understood to have been nominated for World heritage listing.
In the face of doubling down by the government over the past three months that it was running a tight ship in youth justice,the symposium focused heavily on how the government attempted to shift the blame for disturbances at Banksia Hill onto the detainees.
Some pretty basic human rights - and humanity - were cast aside in the pursuit of keeping the virus out.
Restrictions born of the pandemic that became de rigueur,but now seem so alien,could face dissection by a special panel tasked with reviewing WA’s COVID-19 response.
Our community deserves more. A government that can walk and chew gum at the same time:that is,protect endangered species while delivering affordable housing.
Labor leader Chris Minns will have to overcome Premier Dominic Perrottet’s personal brand to win in March.
Guards were forced to barricade themselves in rooms after a group of adolescents set fire to buildings and threatened staff on New Year’s Eve.