Lauren Pilat
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‘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. → Read More
‘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. → Read More
How COVID-19 borders drove Perth family to seek female genital mutilation on home soil
It was a seemingly typical weekday in a suburban GP’s office in Perth when a doctor was asked to perform an illegal circumcision on a two-week-old baby girl. → Read More
How COVID-19 borders drove Perth family to seek female genital mutilation on home soil
It was a seemingly typical weekday in a suburban GP’s office in Perth when a doctor was asked to perform an illegal circumcision on a two-week-old baby girl. → Read More
WA records no new cases, ‘big contact tracing operation under way’: Premier
Perth and Peel have returned to Phase 1 restrictions until at least Tuesday amid fears the woman has contracted the highly contagious Delta variant after visiting a cafe in Sydney 10 days ago. → Read More
‘Extraordinary’: WA government department deletes bullying allegation email
The Child Protection and Family Support staffer sent the email on March 22 to colleagues and management at a Perth residential group home detailing their experience of workplace bullying and called for a ‘red flag meeting’. → Read More
Student’s stark warning after drink spiked with date rape drug at Perth house party
A Safety Bay teenager is warning others about the danger of date rape drugs after her drink was spiked at a house party in Doubleview. → Read More
No new cases of COVID-19 for Perth on Anzac Day
Perth has recorded no new cases of COVID-19 in the community linked to the Mercure Hotel cluster on Sunday. → Read More
‘It haunts me to this day’: Udita Mittal almost lost her daughter a year before Aishwarya’s death
Ms Mittal says she begged for a blood test to rule out anything serious but doctors refused, arguing it wasn’t the hospital’s protocol to carry out blood tests for every child with an unexplained fever for fewer than three days. → Read More
Seroja goes to red alert, WA authorities warn of ‘widespread devastation’
Authorities hope to get through the weekend without loss of life but have warned homes in the middle of the state aren’t built to withstand expected winds. → Read More
Seroja goes to red alert, WA authorities warn of ‘widespread devastation’
Authorities hope to get through the weekend without loss of life but have warned homes in the middle of the state aren’t built to withstand expected winds. → Read More
‘Rape joke chants’: Hale alumni details ‘misogynist’ attitudes of male classmates
A former Hale student has detailed the alarming attitudes of some male students towards girls as calls for better education on consent and attitudes to females gain momentum. → Read More
WA private schools lead nation in freezing fees amid COVID-19, with one in 10 dropping their prices
Find out which of WA’s most expensive and top-rating secondary schools have frozen their annual tuition fees and the schools that have even decreased them to help families experiencing financial hardship due to COVID-19. Spoiler, they still cost as much as a new car. → Read More
Australia on high alert after bikie boss' public assassination as police hunt for sniper
WA's top cop declared police will be relentless in investigating and prosecuting criminal gangs following the shocking public execution of a senior bikie sitting in a Perth crowd, but the state remains without tough anti-consorting laws. → Read More
Gang crime squad investigating homicide of former Rebels boss Nick Martin at Kwinana Motorplex
The incident occurred at 8.36pm on Saturday night. → Read More
Western Australia’s 'hidden orphanages': Where children are sent when there’s nowhere else
They’re the children and young people who have experienced extreme trauma and had nowhere else to go. → Read More
'Uber high school': Murdoch response to education reforms called an insult to staff and students
Murdoch staff were told in a letter the likely effect of these changes would mean their positions as a teaching and research academics would be redundant. → Read More
Shark attack kills swimmer at Broome's Cable Beach
Police said the person had been swimming north of the Cable Beach rocks about 8.50am on Sunday when the fatal attack happened. → Read More
Shark attack kills swimmer at Broome's Cable Beach
Police said the person had been swimming north of the Cable Beach rocks about 8.50am on Sunday when the fatal attack happened. → Read More
Police stand-off with armed man continues in Bayswater
Heavily armed police officers and the bomb squad have been staking out the property in the usually quiet cul-de-sac for about 20 hours. → Read More