The Department of Communities would be barred from evicting children into homelessness and prevented from easily terminating fixed term tenancies if a bombshell Supreme Court challenge launching this week is successful.

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The Department of Child Protection would be removed from the “tangled web” of the Department of Communities and re-established as a standalone agency under a Liberal Government.

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Burned out child protection workers – often afraid for their physical safety – are being forced to operate in a “perpetual state of crisis”, according to the union that represents them.

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The Department of Communities is in “serious crisis” and requires an immediate influx of child protection workers, according to Liberal Leader Libby Mettam.

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Premier Roger Cook would support expediting a coronial inquest into the suicide of a 10-year-old Aboriginal boy who died in the care of the Department of Communities.

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Leaders of WA public schools have been notified they should not expect to fall back on education assistants or other support staff to supervise students while teachers are out on strike next week.

Via Bethany Hiatt

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A tenant in the same building as Carine MP Paul Lilburne says the Labor politician’s electorate office is kept locked from the public, and the MP is rarely seen.

Via Jake Dietsch

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WA’s top cop has blamed an eroding “sense of civic duty” and the rise of work-from-home for the retention issues that continue to hamper his efforts to expand the overall size of the force.

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COLUMN: You don’t need a stash of leaked WhatsApp messages to tell you who is in control of the WA Liberal Party today.

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Working parents and their employers will face widespread disruptions as a result of next week’s strike by public schoolteachers, WA’s peak business group has warned.

Via Bethany Hiatt

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Nationals MP Martin Aldridge will retire from politics at the next election, drawing a line under a decade-long career in Parliament.

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Nationals MLC Martin Aldridge has told Parliament he will retire from politics at the next election. Story The West Australian shortly.

West Australians will soon be able to describe themselves as “non-binary” under planned reforms that will include abolishing the State’s contentious Gender Reassignment Board.

Via Kate Emery

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Premier Roger Cook says the bombshell verdict in Bruce Lehrmann’s defamation case against Channel 10 will be re-traumatising for victims of sexual assault.

Via Jake Dietsch

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Authorities in WA are “in close contact with the Federal Government” as they prepare for any potential “terrorist-related activity” after the stabbing of a Sydney bishop.

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WA will spend $4.4 million to deploy a second trade commissioner to southeast Asia – this time based in Singapore – as the State seeks to tap the rapidly emerging growth economies of the ASEAN region.

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Reinforcements are on the way for next summer’s bushfire season with the Cook Government recruiting 60 extra career firefighters, completing the biggest expansion of frontline personnel in more than 50 years.

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A mum left languishing with debilitating pelvic pain has been forced to drain her husband’s super account after the years-long wait for a specialist saw her condition spiral into an issue that now requires major surgery.

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