Western Australia
Under cloud of secrecy, U.S. weaponises Western Australia

The United States has continued to prepare key areas of Western Australia as bases to fight its ...  
Australia's prison system killed Cleveland Dodd

The fate of Cleveland Dodd was determined by a cruel incarceration system that is designed to ...  
Cleveland Dodd's fate is Australia's national shame

The funeral of a teenager who passed away while inside WA's juvenile detention system was marred ...  
Banksia Hill children’s prison: The facts and the answers

As Western Australia's Banksia Hill continues its legacy of cruelty, alternatives must be discu ...  
Prison tragedy highlights child incarceration cruelty

The recent death of a child in custody has raised concerns about Australia's youth detention ...  
Crackdown on protesters reminding who law really serves

Western Australia's police are targeting those aiming to put an end to environmentally destructive ...  
Australia's shame: First Nations suicides a growing problem

The growing number of First Nations suicides is an indication of a country that has turned its ...  
Hearing exposes regional banks' pattern of profit over people

Hearings into regional bank closures in WA have exposed the level of corporate greed rampant ...  
Australia's cruel deportation laws forsake dying father

Time is running out for a dying man wishing to spend his remaining time with his family, but ...  
Prisons no place for young children

Australia's juvenile detention system is failing our troubled youths and reform is urgently needed ...  
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 ...  
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