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Media has reported up to 15 children have been living unattended in a squalid house in WA’s Pilbara. While the danger didn’t start overnight, the fixes can.
WA’s live facial recognition technology was deemed successful. But what happens when it fails, and who bears the burden when it does?
Pauline Hanson’s party takes the outer-Perth seat from Labor in a win that will have the major parties worried.
The current deal costs Australians billions more than it should if we were fairly sharing money around the country. It’s not too late to have your say.
The government is so far turning a blind eye to the Productivity Commission’s scathing GST review. But that’s not stopping the commission from making its case.
The Secret Harbour byelection will take place on August 29. Traditionally a Labor seat, One Nation is posing a serious threat.
A state-level byelection is rarely of interest to anyone outside the electorate in question. But the poll in Secret Harbour will test Pauline Hanson’s party.
The 2018 ‘reforms’ were bad policy. The sooner they are unwound the better.
Who gets to authorise such deployments? And who checks the safeguards?
Western Australia could be home to the country’s newest large-scale oil refinery, if a government proposal goes ahead.
The contest will be closely watched for whether One Nation erodes Labor in an outer suburban area, and also for its implications for Hastie.
Six passengers from the hantavirus-struck cruise ship are in quarantine in Australia. So how do we actually design buildings to keep a virus from spreading?
What the film lacks in depth, it makes up for in heart, spirit and spectacular landscapes.
New research found this approach meant an increase in spawning fish. This is good news for fishers.
Australia’s northwest is well known for its heat. But this furnace-like area can deliver heatwaves to the southeast, thousands of kilometres away.
While simply scrapping the 2018 deal might not be feasible, moving to an altogether new system could be a way forward.
The WA Supreme Court found in favour of the former senator in the high-profile defamation case. Here’s how it played out.
Luck seems to have run out for many Western Australian coral reefs, as an off-the-charts marine heatwave leaves a trail of bleaching and coral death.
After decades of trauma that’s still being felt today, the state has launched a redress scheme for survivors of the Stolen Generations - years after other states did the same.
Those who murdered the 15 year-old have received life sentences, but the ruling on racially motivated crime isn’t so definitive.



















