Western Australia
Fossil fuel company seeks to undo decades of whale conservation

While Australia has been a leader in whale conservation, one energy company is planning a project ...  
Breach of disabled access law leaves Banking Association lost for words

The Australian Banking Association is refusing to answer questions over a breach of the Code of ...  
The oddity of micronations

Micronations, unrecognised nations created within territories, are terribly eccentric and also ...  
Blood on our hands: Banksia Hill is failing our children

Suicide and incarceration statistics from Banksia Hill prison highlight a lack of proper rehabi ...  
Mark McGowan must stand tall on future promise to protect forests

After half a century of continuous efforts by the community to protect forests in WA, an end-of ...  
Woodside's industrial-size attempt at reputation washing

Given the worsening climate crisis, there should be no place for fossil-fuel reputation washing by ...  
Banksia Hill nightmare highlights urgent need for prison reform

Western Australia's Banksia Hill children's prison is an example of a failed rehabilitation system ...  
Woodside's 'climate bomb' Scarborough Gas Project must be defused

An injunction has been sought against Woodside’s Scarborough Gas Project in order to protect the ...  
Sacrifices by the working class will worsen our homeless crisis

A strategy by Treasurer Jim Chalmers on fixing our budget situation could worsen Australia's ...  
Morrison's border backflip: PM's 'Teflon miracle' appears over

It is political orthodoxy that oppositions don’t win elections and governments lose them.  
Mark McGowan is not the dictator in your life — your boss is

WA Premier Mark McGowan's firm stance on border protection doesn't deserve as much criticism as ...  
Border controls demonised as WA effectively shuts out COVID

The media relentlessly attacks the measures imposed to protect people from COVID instead of ...  
Don't punish the poor: Fines must be based on income

There is a discriminatory, classist struggle in this nation, in which the unemployed, the under ...  
Class action may reform laws for the 'forgotten children'

Former inmates of the Banksia Hill Detention Centre are planning a class action lawsuit over ...  
Governments fail to keep suicide prevention service alive

WA's First Nations suicide toll will likely rise with the fall of outreach service NSPTRP, which ...  
Students' racist slurs outrage community

Men need to step up and call out racism and abuse, like that recently perpetrated by a mob of ...  
Wren's Week: Labor won WA, time to vote out the LNP nationwide

With WA setting an example, the rest of the nation should consider voting out the Liberal Gover ...  
Mark McGowan's win a potential victory for Australian climate goals

Labor's landslide victory in the WA Election could mean a greener future for the state and hope ...  

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