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Major fundraiserCommentsWest Coast champ sports rivals’ colours for great cause

Perth’s been swept up in Grand Final fever. But 2021 AFL premiership cup ambassador Glen Jakovich wants West Aussies to remember another important upcoming event too — Purple Bra day.

Charlotte Elton

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The West Australian exclusive
Bombshell allegationsPremium
The West Australian exclusive
Perth Modern investigated over staff bullying claims

The top-ranked public school in WA is being investigated over allegations of workplace bullying.

Bethany Hiatt

From the brinkCommentsPremiumOsher Gunsberg opens up on his shocking health battle

He’s one of Australia’s highest-profile stars but away from the cameras, life hasn’t been easy for TV presenter Osher Gunsberg

Clare Rigden

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The West Australian exclusive
Unprecedented demandCommentsPremium
The West Australian exclusive
Dramatic surge in first-time homeless women

Perth is seeing an increase of first-time homeless women who are fleeing domestic violence, with just one northern suburbs centre forced to turn away more than 6000 pleas for help in the past year.

Kate Emery

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opinion
Dangerous lessonsCommentsPremium
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How a TikTok meal-sharing trend is damaging teen girls

Fears that a new social media trend is exposing young girls to dangerously disordered eating has prompted calls for parents to teach their daughters how to be online.

Kate Emery

Social AffairsInsecure workers fear reporting abuse

Sex Discrimination Commissioner Kate Jenkins has highlighted the particular vulnerability of women who are migrants or in insecure jobs to workplace harassment.

Georgie Moore

Changing habitsMore employees to remain working from home

A new report has found more Australians will work from home compared to pre-pandemic levels, even when COVID-19 restrictions ease.

Andrew Brown

Social AffairsEU urged to ban forced labour products

European Commission President Ursula von der Leyen says the EU should ban the import of products made by the millions of people forced into labour worldwide.

AAP

‘Buried’ claimsCommentsPremiumFIFO victims reveal ‘confronting’ stories to inquiry

The second day of a landmark parliamentary inquiry into sexual harassment within the WA resources sector has heard ‘distressing’ and ‘confronting’ stories from FIFO victims.

Caitlyn Rintoul

Common GroundCommentsPremiumNew 50-apartment Mandurah homeless facility revealed

Funding has been secured for a “sexy” 50-apartment Common Ground homeless facility in Mandurah, with the first tenants expected to move in by 2024.

Jake Dietsch

Ageism reportCommentsPremiumAustralians believe young people are ‘entitled’

Middle-aged people are most likely to be overlooked for employment opportunities, while young people have been accused of ‘expecting things on a platter’, a new ageism report has found.

Briana Fiore

Social AffairsInquiry hears of NBN contract kickbacks

A federal committee has been told of allegations that illegal drugs have been used to help award lucrative contracts for the National Broadband Network.

Andrew Brown

Speaking outCommentsPremiumYoung Aussies raise their voices in Parliament

The voices of young West Australians will be heard in Federal Parliament next month when politicians read visions of the future from the up-and-coming generation of leaders and policymakers.

Kimberley Caines

Shocking incidentFreo ‘drink-spiking’ left woman unable to speak

Three women who attended a Friday night gig claim their drinks were spiked while they were on the dance floor.

Ben Anderson

Social AffairsTaliban to segregate uni classes for women

Afghanistan's new Taliban government says women can continue to study at university but classrooms will be segregated by gender and Islamic dress enforced.

Kathy Gannon

BustedPremiumEvery Year 12 boy banned from top school over prank

All the Year 12 students at one of Perth’s most prestigious boys’ schools were banned from the last day of school because several of them held an unauthorised water bomb fight.

Caitlyn Rintoul

Not forgottenCommentsPremiumVital funding for Indigenous, community services

Premier Mark McGowan has outlined that this year’s budget is about WA’s future, delivering on that talk with a suite of important initiatives earning financial support.

Rangi Hirina

Women’s Safety SummitPremiumGrace Tame’s new crusade on Aussie sex assault laws

The Australian of the Year says an aspect of Australia’s laws gives perpetrators ‘loopholes’.

Sarah Ison

Social AffairsTorres Strait families win legal rights

Torres Strait Islanders can now apply for cultural recognition orders that remove legal barriers to education and government support.

Nick Gibbs

Education neededCommentsPremium‘Men need to change’: AFP boss addresses women’s summit

Australian Federal Police Commissioner Reece Kershaw said campaigns which educated men specifically about consent and on the consequences of abuse were critical to tackle the issue.

Sarah Ison

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The West Australian exclusive
‘It needs to end’CommentsPremium
The West Australian exclusive
More protection for women from coercive control

The West Australian can reveal Attorney-General Michaelia Cash has set a deadline of early next year to finalise legal principals that define coercive control to help women flee violence.

Lanai Scarr

‘Inexcusable’CommentsPremiumHiggins and Tame hold own summit after PM’s snub

Australian of the Year Grace Tame has panned the Government's handling of the Women’s Safety Summit, saying their decision not to invite Brittany Higgins was ‘inexcusable’ and a missed opportunity.

Sarah Ison

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Lanai ScarrCommentsPremium
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The actions we must take to stop violence against women

However he got there, Scott Morrison’s words on violence against women show he actually gets it, that he does want to make a change. Here’s how we harness that.

Lanai Scarr

Lanai ScarrFederal Political Editor

National summitCommentsPremium‘No excuse’: PM’s call to stop violence against women

Speaking at the National Summit on Women’s Safety in Canberra, Scott Morrison said not enough was being done to stamp out disrespect towards women in Australia, saying the nation has ‘a problem’.

Lanai Scarr