Aja Styles
WAtoday
Melbourne, VIC, Australia
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Archaic laws punish WA families while losing war on drugs: lawyers
Which WA crime can get you put away longer than murder? The answer might surprise you. → Read More
Perth Modern principal accused of ‘siphoning’ education money to auditorium, with science in tatters
Questions surrounding suspended Perth Modern School principal Lois Joll’s pursuit of a $10 million auditorium over better science facilities and relief teachers were raised with the Department of Education in 2017. → Read More
Is Murdoch University changing its culture? An executive and governance shakeup is afoot
A sense of change in the Fremantle Doctor is blowing through Murdoch University’s Bush Court as most of the former executive under ex-vice chancellor Eeva Leinonen are swept away, with improved academic oversight taking shape. → Read More
China’s ‘unhappy’ magnetite marriage to Clive Palmer to face ultimate test
One of the most poisonous commercial relationships in Australian history will go on trial, as the ‘for better or worse’ elements of the $18 billion Sino Iron project in WA’s Pilbara get scrutinised. → Read More
UWA to scrap sociology, elite professors after win at Fair Work Commission
Despite promoting the successes of its sociology professors, the university will scrap the major and cut those jobs. → Read More
Perth nurse charged after ‘pretending to administer COVID-19 jab to teenager’
A WA Police spokesman alleged the nurse inserted the needle into the teenager’s arm, but failed to administer the vaccine. → Read More
Immigration detainee fell through gaps before death at WA detention centre, inquest hears
Sarwan Al Jhelie’s family, who lives in New South Wales, have pushed for a coronial inquiry into the missteps over his care while held in WA immigration detention in 2018. → Read More
Murdoch Uni slashes job security in student services, hits rankings doldrums
Three student service areas are under a cloud as the university descends Times Higher Education’s latest rankings in a further sign of depleted outcomes. → Read More
Bid for Perth schoolboy’s death to go to inquest ‘may help save other children’s lives’
Outside WA’s Supreme Court, tearful parents Pamela and Chris Fink pledged not to give up the fight for mentally unwell children in WA schools in the wake of their son’s death. → Read More
UWA’s social science carve-up could cost big business billions, experts warn
Axing anthropology and sociology and carving off humanities courses in WA risks billions of dollars more in failed engineering and mining projects, leading experts warn. → Read More
‘Sneaky Pfizer jabs’ handed out in WA in booking free-for-all while rest of nation cries poor
WA has binned almost 4000 vaccines while boasting about its “orderly allocation” system over other states as local Pfizer-seekers set about circumnavigating booking systems. → Read More
Three births, COVID-19 and the stresses around WA hospitals in lockdown
Meet three West Australian women who have come face-to-face with the difficulties of giving birth during a pandemic, as the state nurses union continues to report code yellow conditions in hospitals. → Read More
Universities sit silent as politics strangles activism: but for how long?
A once-in-a-decade stoush is brewing over the political leanings that have potentially silenced student and academic action over job losses and education reforms. → Read More
‘Netflix’ degrees and robot teachers: How big tech could shape WA universities
Welcome to Western Australia’s campuses of the future, if American communications giant Cisco and dwindling Commonwealth funding has anything to do with it. → Read More
‘It’s a dying uni’: Two WA universities, one student movement, differing results
The Curtin University guild has become a lone voice standing up to how some of the state’s higher education institutes have set a path to do away with traditional face-to-face lectures permanently and alter the course of higher education forever. → Read More
Pulling back the curtain on WA’s ‘festering’ hotel quarantine conditions, ex-guard fears more virus leaks
The state’s hotel quarantine system has been plagued by five virus transmissions to security guards, now an ex-guard describes an unruly environment where guests would open their room doors at random and a man from China stayed undetected for three months. → Read More
War of the Rineharts: How succession to Lang’s iron ore throne ‘may tear it all apart’
Lawyers for Australia’s wealthiest woman, Gina Rinehart, have argued that if her daughter Bianca succeeds in her claim to dynasty founder Lang Hancock’s iron ore tenements, she will effectively dismantle a $20 billion equity-rich mining company. → Read More
War of the Rineharts: How succession to Lang’s iron ore throne ‘may tear it all apart’
Lawyers for Australia’s wealthiest woman, Gina Rinehart, have argued that if her daughter Bianca succeeds in her claim to dynasty founder Lang Hancock’s iron ore tenements, she will effectively dismantle a $20 billion equity-rich mining company. → Read More
‘We’ll have to sell the house’: Time running out for WA travel agents as support dries up
Our World Travel owner Nick Missikos has spent 47 years in a profitable industry but now can’t afford to pay his bills without Commonwealth help. But he’s not giving up. → Read More
Perth’s biggest property winners and losers after the 2020 lockdown revealed
There's one central spot you'd be kicking yourself if you have invested in – especially when it comes to apartment living. → Read More