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Best of the bestCommentsWA’s most popular baby names revealed

Classic names were popular with WA parents last year, as the Registry of Births, Deaths and Marriages releases the top five girls’ and boys’ names from 2020.

Rhianna Mitchell

Your Story, Our StoryVideoOur seven-part series charting WA’s migration

Most Australian families have come from somewhere else. A nation of migrants, we are bonded by our belief in a fair go and the right to wear thongs! Here we tell your history, through their stories.

Lily Hoffmann

Ready workforcePremiumAboriginal businesses ‘need equal chances’

An Aboriginal employment specialist has implored WA bosses to give Indigenous businesses the same opportunities they would afford to mainstream companies.

Danielle Le Messurier

Special reportCommentsPremiumWhat it’s like to spend the night at Freo’s tent city

Fremantle’s tent city is not perfect but for many, it’s better than the alternative. Reporter Charlotte Elton spent a night at Pioneer Park to understand the challenges faced by the residents.

Charlotte Elton

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Up in the airCommentsPremium
The West Australian exclusive
WACA’s $100m upgrade in limbo as Baz raises concerns

The $100 million redevelopment of the WACA is in limbo after Perth Lord Mayor Basil Zempilas revealed the council was examining the financial viability of its $25 million investment.

Peter Law

New facilityPremiumWellness is best in the west

Western Australia is poised to take on the east coast for the mantle of Australia’s health and wellness hotspot, as a new facility in Victoria Park officially opens its doors.

Danielle Le Messurier

Your Story, Our StoryCommentsPremiumPart Three: From Sicilian struggle to Spud King

Before Tony Galati could be one of Western Australia’s most well-known businessmen, he had to learn what it was like to have nothing. As the son of immigrants, it wasn’t an easy journey to the top.

Lily Hoffmann

Your Story, Our StoryPremiumPart Seven: Disguised as a boy to survive the Taliban

Victoria Park lawyer Rahila Haidari knows all too well the power of male privilege — because she lived a life disguised as a boy while growing up in Afghanistan.

Lily Hoffmann

Your Story, our storyCommentsPremiumPart Two: From POW camp to ‘one of the lucky ones’

From a four-year-old prisoner of war to world-renowned physicist, ever since the forced removal from his Palestinian home life has been far from easy for Erich Weigold. But with tragedy comes triumph.

Lily Hoffmann

Your Story, Our StoryCommentsPremiumPart Six: How a refugee camp helped forge an AFLW star

Perth AFLW star Akec Makur Chuot is part of the last living legacy of her father, one of three daughters born after he was murdered in South Sudan. And her journey to WA was far from straightforward.

Lily Hoffmann

Your Story, Our StoryCommentsPremiumPart Four: From ten pound Pom to true blue Aussie

As Jim climbed towards the steel doors of the mammoth ship, he was unwittingly travelling towards a lifelong identity as a ten pound Pom.

Lily Hoffmann

Your Story, Our StoryCommentsPremiumPart One: ‘Without the first story, there is no story’

For Aboriginal people, Australia’s migrant history is profoundly complicated, characterised by displacement, massacre and for Walter McGuire, the revelation his mum was stolen generation.

Lily Hoffmann

Your Story, Our StoryCommentsPremiumPart Five: How Mai Nguyen found her identity in WA

It was a miracle she wasn’t raped, it was a miracle she didn’t drown, it was a miracle she wasn’t shot – and it was a miracle she made it to Western Australia from war-torn Vietnam.

Lily Hoffmann

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The West Australian exclusive
Shock arrestPremium
The West Australian exclusive
WA school in underage sex tape scandal

A Goldfields school has been rocked by a sex tape scandal, with parents called into a crisis meeting before police charged a 15-year-old boy over allegations of penetration of two 12-year-old girls.

Taylar Amonini

Packing downCommentsPremiumD-Day for Freo’s ‘tent city’ set for this weekend

Fremantle’s tent city is on track to be dismantled by the end of the weekend, with every rough sleeper now being offered “appropriate accommodation” and authorities preparing to issue move-on notices.

Josh Zimmerman, Daryna Zadvirna & Michael Traill

Shock allegationsPremiumAged care bosses fly into WA for death crisis talks

Regis Aged Care executives from Melbourne have flown into Perth — bypassing WA’s mandatory 14-day quarantine — to host crisis talks at the company’s Nedlands facility.

Sarah Steger

Pioneer ParkPremiumRevealed: Alleged Tent City sex predator unmasked

One of the men who allegedly sexually attacked a teenage girl in the early hours of New Year’s Day — an attack police have linked to Fremantle’s makeshift homeless camp — has appeared in court.

Tim Clarke

RETURNING SERVECommentsPremium‘Stop the bullying’: Court ‘disappointed’ by backlash

Tennis champion Margaret Court said she was ‘very disappointed’ by both the backlash, and the leaking of the news, but insisted she would continue to voice her beliefs.

Rhianna Mitchell

Cruelty chargeTeen charged with theft of Adventure World koala

A desperate search was launched after the animal disappeared on a night when the amusement park was open until 11pm as part of a special event.

Phil Hickey

Mosman Heights shopping centreVideoPremiumDeveloper's bid to keep controversial plans alive

A developer could lower the height of a shopping centre redevelopment in a leafy Perth suburb after hundreds of locals opposed the plans.

Jon Bassett

‘Grim reality’CommentsPremiumTent City emergency bed offer ‘just shifting the issue’

Rough sleepers at Fremantle’s Tent City have been offered emergency accommodation, but that’s been panned by homeless advocates who say a long-term solution is needed.

Daryna Zadvirna

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Terrifying attacksPremium
The West Australian exclusive
Shocking new details revealed in evil rapist cop case

New details and never before released images connected to a series of terrifying West Perth sex attacks carried out by a former Federal police officer have been made public for the first time.

Phil Hickey

Crumpled wreckPremiumFMG train smashes through truck in Pilbara

A Fortescue Metals Group train has ploughed through a truck on tracks near Tom Price in WA’s Pilbara.

Sam Jones and Daniel Newell

Booster SeatCommentsPremiumSpacey Jane reveal plans for ultimate Hottest 100 party

The Perth rockers could become the first WA act to top the nation’s biggest countdown and Caleb Harper says he’ll struggle to hide his disappointment at his pool party if it doesn’t happen.

Simon Collins

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