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hospital ramping crisisCommentsPremium
The West Australian exclusive
Bleeding, elderly patients left to wait outside ED

Leaked St John Ambulance case logs lay bare the horrific circumstances endured by patients — many elderly — needing to be admitted to WA’s overflowing emergency departments but kept waiting for hours.

Josh Zimmerman

Health warningPremiumWhy screen time is a real pain in the neck for kids

Screen time is causing neck, spine and posture problems in young children and ‘playing havoc’ with their school readiness, researchers have warned.

Rhianna Mitchell

Prolonged nightmareVideoCommentsPremiumPerth family recall five day death notification delay

Arriving at his father’s Mandurah aged care home for a dinner visit, the last thing Bob Ayling expected was to be pulled into a room and told the 89-year-old had died five days earlier.

Caitlyn Rintoul

Watch the videoVideoCommentsPremiumIncredible moment Perth boy hears for the first time

The heartwarming moment a young WA boy hears his mother’s voice for the first time, ‘sweeping away all her denial’ in a powerful moment, has been captured on video. See the clip here.

Brianna Dugan

Families ‘devastated’CommentsPremiumOmbudsman to probe aged care death notice delays

The WA Ombudsman will investigate why it took 10 days to tell the family of Perth great-grandmother Joyce Savage that she had passed away.

Caitlyn Rintoul

opinion
opinion
Heartbreaking experienceCommentsPremium
opinion
‘My dad’s nursing home death was an indignity’

It’s almost two years since I lost my dad, who died alone in an aged care home following a short battle with cancer. I was there every day. This is what I saw in those two weeks.

Kate Ryan

Jab fearsCommentsPremiumVaccine rollout ‘simply not fast enough’: Expert

A leading immunologist hopes “outlandish” anti-vaxxer claims that COVID-19 vaccines contain microchips will have a minimal impact on public confidence in the jabs amid the slow rollout.

Ben O'Shea

Coronavirus crisisCommentsPremiumWA lagging behind three other States in vax roll-out

Only half of the planned 60,000 doses of the Pfizer vaccine have been administered in the first week of Australia’s COVID-19 vaccine program, with WA lagging well behind three other states.

Sarah Ison

Feeling the squeezeCommentsPremiumWorse than Diet Coke? New ratings hurt orange juice

Orange juice has lost its health halo, and is now officially considered less healthy than diet cola, angering farmers and juicers who say its true nutritional benefits are not being recognised.

Jenne Brammer

Coronavirus crisisAuckland locked down after new COVID-19 case found

New Zealand Prime Minister Jacinda Ardern says Auckland will be put into a seven-day lockdown from Sunday after a coronavirus community case of unknown origin was recorded.

Jab jittersCommentsPremiumMcGowan ‘not concerned’ as workers avoid COVID vaccine

The Premier says he is not worried about a slow start to WA’s COVID-19 vaccinations as figures show hundreds of the first 5000 Pfizer doses that arrived on Sunday are unlikely to be used this week.

Angela Pownall and Charlotte Elton

‘Risk factor’VideoCommentsPremiumAirflow checks to stop another ‘case 903’

A review into the adequacy of Western Australia's hotel quarantine system has recommended ventilation assessments of rooms after the case of a security guard triggered WA’s lockdown.

Michael Traill

On noticeCommentsPremiumFirm behind vaccine overdose blasted by health chief

The company responsible for giving two Queensland patients a COVID-19 vaccine overdose have had the ‘book thrown at them’ by the Federal Government.

Sarah Ison

Caught outPremiumNo jail for truckie who smuggled breacher across border

A truck driver has avoided jail for smuggling quarantine breacher Asher Vander Sanden through WA’s hard border, with his lawyer telling the court Lapworth acted out of pity.

Michael Traill

‘One-off freak event’CommentsPremiumWhy Qld vaccination blunder ‘won’t happen here’

The head of the State’s COVID-19 vaccine program says WA won’t repeat the mistake which saw two elderly people given excessive doses as he urged workers most at-risk to get the jab.

Angela Pownall and Josh Zimmerman

Coronavirus crisisPremiumCOVID-19 overdose doctor had not been properly trained

A Queensland doctor who gave two elderly patients a coronavirus vaccine overdose did not do the required training to administer the jab, it’s been revealed.

Sarah Ison

Outbreak findingsVideoCommentsPremiumWhy WA Govt is yet to release hotel quarantine report

Western Australia’s government has received a report into the adequacy of its hotel quarantine system but is yet to reveal when it will be released.

Michael Ramsey

Touchdown!VideoCommentsPremiumFirst COVID-19 vaccines arrive in Perth

WA’s first batch of COVID-19 vaccines have touched down in Perth ahead of tomorrow’s highly anticipated roll out.

Emily Moulton

Isolation overCommentsPremiumCase 903 has now been released from quarantine

The security guard at the centre of WA’s snap five-day lockdown has left hotel quarantine.

Emily Moulton

‘It’s about confidence’VideoCommentsPremiumScott Morrison has just received his COVID jab

Prime Minister Scott Morrison is among the first Australians to receive the COVID-19 vaccine.

Lanai Scarr

investigation
investigation
Dosed to deathCommentsPremium
investigation
The unlikely victims of WA’s hidden drug scourge

There is a deadly epidemic in WA and it’s hiding in plain sight. Kate Emery reports on our State’s prescription drug problem, which is hurting people you wouldn’t expect.

Kate Emery

Myths bustedCommentsPremiumCOVID-19: Sorting fact from fiction about the vaccine

Perth’s COVID-19 vaccine program will start this Monday and social media misinformation about its safety and efficacy is running rampant. Here, Jane Hansen sorts the fact from fiction about the jab.

Jane Hansen

‘No vax no thanx’CommentsPremiumAnti-vaxxers gather at Scarborough in national protest

Thousands of anti-vaxxers have gathered in Scarborough in one of many protests unfolding across the country ahead of the administration of the first Pfizer COVID vaccine doses on Monday.

Phil Hickey

Chaos in BrisbaneCommentsPremiumTinfoil crowns, ‘fake virus’: Anti-vaxxers swarm CBD

Anti-vaxxers are wearing tinfoil crowns and chanting ‘all vaccines are toxic’ in wild scenes unfolding in the Brisbane CBD.

Shiloh Payne

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