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Housing shortage at 'critical point' as Wheatbelt gets left behind

Western Australia is caught in a housing 'spiral', with soaring rents and a lack of supply leaving locals out in the cold.

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Less meth in Western Australia due to border closure leads to dangerous drug landscape change, support workers say

Frontline workers are encountering more people using heroin, benzodiazepines and other tranquillising prescription drugs in Western Australia after the state's border closure.

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Pilbara Preparatory family centre fined $13k by State Administrative Tribunal over barefoot child

A family centre in Western Australia's Pilbara region has been fined after a barefoot child, who was meant to be in its care, was left alone outside on an almost 30-degrees Celsius day.

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Full story behind Abrolhos Islands drug smuggling mission revealed for first time

In what reads like a Hollywood movie script, the calamitous series of bungles that led to $73 million worth of drugs ending up on a barren island off Western Australia's coast can be revealed for the first time.

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‘I want to know why he died’: family seeks justice over Australia’s jailing of Indonesian child

Erwin Prayoga was 14 when he was wrongly jailed as an adult in Western Australia. Shortly after he was deported to Indonesia, he died in agony

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WA COVID mask mandate lifts along with capacity restrictions as Omicron peak passes

Western Australia eases its mask mandate, and drops capacity limits at all venues as the government says it has achieved the "soft landing" from COVID it promised.

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Western Australian students return to school for term two amid eased COVID-19 restrictions

West Australian students and teachers begin to claw back a sense of normality after isolation rules and other COVID restrictions threw schools into disarray in term one.

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Antoine Dicenta pleads guilty as details from Abrolhos Islands drug-smuggling trial come to light

The last of five men involved in an international drug ring that attempted to import $73 million worth of drugs into Western Australia admits his role in the bungled importation.

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Out of the Woods music festival sees major acts — including Grinspoon, and Angus and Julia Stone — return to Western Australia

Music lovers celebrate getting Out of the Woods as a major music festival returns to Western Australia after years of hardship for the entertainment sector.

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Blood donor services forced to reduce operating hours due to WA's labour crisis

Labour shortages in Western Australia add another layer of challenging complications to the supply for blood across the country.

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Death fears for ancient WA coral formation

On Western Australia's stunning Ningaloo coast, a coral bommie that began life 1000 years ago sits ghostly white in the green waters of Bills Bay.

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Calls for reform at troubled WA youth jail

Western Australia's government is likely to be exposed to compensation claims over its treatment of children in detention, a prominent barrister says.

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Mark McGowan forced into isolation as expert warns against easing COVID restrictions too soon

Premier Mark McGowan is forced into isolation as an infectious diseases expert warns a deeper look into how COVID is spreading in Western Australia is needed before restrictions are eased further.

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WA's youth prison 'inhumane': inspector

An independent inspector says conditions at Western Australia's only juvenile detention centre are inhumane and children's rights are being violated.

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Unions warn against PM's industrial plan

Scott Morrison has used a trip to Western Australia to announce two new hydrogen hubs but unions have warned against a plan to reform industrial agreements.

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Industry anger after Defence spends $90 million on second-hand vessel in Canary Islands

Defence officials have quietly travelled to the Canary Islands and bought a five-year-old ship for Pacific Ocean operations, angering the local industry which was expecting the ship to be built in Western Australia.

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Morrison pledges WA defence industry jobs

Prime Minister Scott Morrison has used an election campaign visit to Western Australia to announce a $121 million patrol vessel investment.

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New funding for troubled WA youth prison

Western Australia's government will invest $25 million into the trouble-plagued Banksia Hill youth detention centre in next month's budget.

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Two injured in WA plane crash

A pilot and passenger have survived a crash landing near an airport in Western Australia's remote north.

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WA past COVID-19 peak but mask and vaccine mandates must stay, Chief Health Officer says

Western Australia's Chief Health Officer Andy Robertson officially declares the state is past its peak in COVID-19 cases, but warns that scrapping face masks now could have a devastating impact.

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Labour headaches as WA jobless rate falls

Western Australia's unemployment rate has fallen to a national low of 3.4 per cent, its lowest level in 14 years with almost 1.5 million people now in work.

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Kimberley communities' clarion call for state support to combat COVID

Limited access to rapid antigen test kits, insufficient health services, a food shortage and overcrowding in homes has led Western Australia's remote Kimberley communities to say they feel 'abandoned' in the state government's response to remote COVID outbreaks.

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Western Australia's new COVID rules explained, from capacity limits to close contacts

Close contact rules are relaxed just in time for the Easter long weekend, with fewer capacity limits and the scrapping of check-in rules everywhere except hospitals.

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State of the states: six politics experts take us on a trip around Australia

Over the next six weeks, Prime Minister Scott Morrison and Labor leader Anthony Albanese will dash around the country, trying to secure as many precious votes as they can.

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Expert says Western Australia's COVID-19 cases have peaked, but it's not out of the woods yet

As WA's seven-day average of new cases continues to decline, an epidemiologist says the state has passed its Omicron peak — but there are more challenges ahead, with fresh outbreaks and even future pandemics on the horizon.

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