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A 36-year-old woman has been jailed for assaulting her six-year-old step-daughter.
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Courts

18 months in prison for bashing girl, 6, over head with a cricket ball

A Perth woman has been jailed for 18 months after violently beating her six-year-old stepdaughter, leaving horrific bruises.

  • by Rebecca Peppiatt
Jeremy Thompson was injured in a bus accident earlier this month.
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Road safety

Transperth driver sacked after boy dragged 300m by bus

  • by Michael Genovese
Brittany Higgins outside the Federal Court in Sydney last November, with partner David Sharaz (left) and lawyer Leon Zwier.
Courts

Court delays WA senator’s trust probe as Higgins, Sharaz prepare to get married

  • by Jesinta Burton
Opposition Leader Peter Dutton has dismissed the costs of nuclear cited in the latest report from CSIRO.
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Nuclear energy

Dutton to name nuclear sites within weeks. Could Collie be on the list?

  • by James Massola, Mike Foley and Hamish Hastie
Teagen’s family has now suffered for many years; from her father inflicting terrible brain injuries on her when she was a toddler, and now from her eventual death due to those injuries.
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Courts

A WA father’s violence cut his daughter’s life short. He will now walk free

  • by Jamie Freestone
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Politics

WA Premier Roger Cook says the government will not pursue a state-based Voice.
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Indigenous

Days of grand gestures for Indigenous reconciliation over: Cook

“The reason why I say that I think the nature of our society nowadays is such that we won’t see these big, grand social projects or social gestures,” WA Premier Roger Cook said.

  • by Hamish Hastie
A move to hire in-house counsel has angered the opposition.
WA budget

Opposition wary of WA government splashing cash on in-house lawyers

The Department of Premier and Cabinet will spend $6 million over the next four years to establish a four-person in-house legal team.

  • by Hamish Hastie
WA Premier Roger Cook.
Gas

‘Trying to save the planet’: Cook wants line of sight on guzzlers of WA gas

  • by Hamish Hastie
The Gorgon Project at Barrow Island.
Gas

WA’s lack of progress on ‘vital’ carbon capture underwhelms minister

  • by Marion Rae
The new procurement rules will apply to billions of dollars worth of governemnt contracts.
Construction

WA builders get more powers to combat construction sector’s ‘profitless boom’

  • by Hamish Hastie

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