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‘Best practice model’ CommentsPremiumFirst phase of reforms to outlaw coercive control announced

Victims of domestic violence will be able to cite ‘coercive control’ in obtaining a restraining order as part of the Government’s first phase in criminalising the insidious but often overlooked form of abuse.

Jake Dietsch

‘Correcting the record’PremiumCCC blasted over false Craig Peacock tax evasion imputation

The Corruption and Crime Commission has been savaged for falsely implying former Japanese Trade Commissioner Craig Peacock committed tax evasion as part of a bombshell report that left his life in tatters. 

Josh Zimmerman

Final report releasedPremiumFuel management error blamed for dramatic beach plane crash

An investigation into a light plane crash off a Fremantle beach, in which a mother and son were lucky to survive, has found errors in fuel management by the pilot.

Lauren Price

Serious injuriesPremiumPlea date set for man accused of hitting teen hit-and-run

A man accused of a shocking hit-and-run that left a teenage boy with serious injuries after he allegedly struck him with his car and then fled the scene is expected to enter a plea at his next court date.

Emily Moulton

MUST-WATCHVideoIncredibly moving domestic violence speech everyone MUST see

Courtney Ugle’s devastatingly powerful speech about surviving the scourge of domestic violence brought the room to tears at the government’s 16 Days in WA breakfast.

Decades of mistreatmentCommentsPremium‘Shameful period’: Cook apologises to stolen wages workers

Premier Roger Cook has apologised to Indigenous people in WA who had their wages stolen for decades.

Jake Dietsch

unusual incidentPremiumVigilantes on the run after allegedly attacking egg-throwers

Two men who were allegedly egging passing cars on a main road in Spencer Park on Friday, have been chased by a group of men and one seriously assaulted as a result.

Georgia Campion

Savage actVideoPremiumPolice hunt man on the run after brutal machete attack

A man is on the run after he jumped the fence of a woman’s home before viciously slashing her in the head with a machete as one tradie revealed how he helped the bloodied woman. 

Caleb Runciman

iron powerCommentsPremiumWA’s iron ore to help power budget into $20b surplus

Better-than-expected iron ore prices will help hand federal treasurer Jim Chalmers a $20 billion budget surplus, compared to an originally forecast deficit, according to analysis from Australia’s biggest bank.

Adrian Rauso

Police investigatingVideoPremiumTeenage driver dead and three injured in Leeman car rollover

A crash on a major highway north of Perth has left a teenage driver dead and three passengers injured. 

Claire Sadler

‘Relatively cheap’CommentsPremiumPerth housing ‘most affordable’ in country: Report

Perth’s property market is the most affordable of any State capital, despite property prices booming.

Raquel de Brito

News‘Cruel’: Warning to well-meaning Aussies

People wanting to help families whose homes were destroyed by bushfire are being warned their money could be snatched up by scammers.

Nathan Schmidt

WATCH the CCTV VideoPremiumPerth man viciously beaten in home invasion

Police are investigating after a man was savagely beaten by a random intruder inside his own home last week.

Lauren Price

Police raids VideoPremiumMongols associate charged after loaded gun, cash seized

An alleged Mongols bikie gang associate has been charged with a string of serious drug and firearm offences after detectives allegedly found a loaded pistol, ammunition, drugs and cash in his car.

Lauren Price

UpdatedPremiumDecapitated shark found at popular jetty

The diver who found the shark’s carcass called the act “reckless”, especially with people swimming near the jetty at this time of year.

Elena Couper

Terrifying scenesPremiumHomeowners have lucky escape after battery sparks huge fire

Residents have escaped without injury after a home went up in flames early on Tuesday morning in Perth’s south.

Lauren Price

Do not approachPolice seeking public’s help to locate wanted man

Police are urgently seeking information in relation to the whereabouts of a 26-year-old man.

Lauren Price

Wrong restraintPremiumElderly woman died after falling out of wheelchair on bus

A coroner has found that an elderly WA woman who died weeks after falling from her wheelchair while travelling on an aged-care bus had not been properly secured.

Emily Moulton

‘Gladly follow him’CommentsPremiumWA senator Pat Dodson quits politics amid cancer fight

WA senator and so-called father of reconciliation Pat Dodson is quitting Federal Parliament as his battle against cancer takes its toll.

Katina Curtis and Dan Jervis-Bardy

16 Days in WA CommentsPremiumCook unveils $72m spend on projects to tackle DV scourge

An aging refuge will be completely rebuilt – tripling its capacity – as part of $72.6 million in new investment combating family and domestic violence announced by Premier Roger Cook.

Josh Zimmerman

NEWSPremium‘Not a monster’: Sister of gunman speaks

He shot at the passengers of two cars who pulled over to help before stealing a car and terrorising a second town.

Madeleine Achenza

ancient adventureCommentsPremiumAncient Lands Experience unveiled at Ngilgi Cave

The region’s peak tourism body has opened its signature Aboriginal heritage experience at Ngilgi Cave near Yallingup.

Warren Hately

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Ending the cycle of violence is possible

You will have noticed something a little different about today’s edition of The West Australian. We’ve turned our masthead orange in support of the 16 Days in WA campaign to end violence against women.

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Figures show shocking rise in violence at horror PCH ward

There were 13 reports of violence against young patients at Perth Children’s Hospital’s notorious Ward 5A in the past 12 months — nearly triple the previous year.

Josh Zimmerman