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Gordon Lyons commits to attending GAA match amid criticism

Sport falls within the responsibilities of the DUP minister’s Department of Communities.

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Indigenous leader who runs social programs wants tougher consequences for parents of young offenders

An Indigenous organisation head who signed a joint letter to WA's leaders highlighting Kununurra's youth crime crisis wants child protection workers to come down harder on parents of children who roam the streets at night.

ABC News

Remote Indigenous communities spared by Cyclone Ilsa but evacuees unable to return home

Severe Tropical Cyclone Ilsa has made its passage through Western Australia but many evacuees from the Great Sandy Desert are yet to return home, cut off by floodwaters.

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Charges over alleged WA govt corruption

Western Australia's Department of Communities has been tied to more bribery allegations involving an employee and a former contractor.

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As the first Kimberley evacuees return home, others share survival stories amid record WA flooding

The Fitzroy Crossing resident is thankful to be alive and similar stories of survival are common among the 150 evacuees in the small port town Derby, who are waiting to return to their homes.

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Twenty people share a single three-bedroom house in Perth. Is public housing part of WA's youth justice problems?

Aboriginal matriarchs say their efforts to keep their grandchildren safe and on the right side of the law are being hindered by public housing policies that lead to overcrowding and homelessness.

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Charges over alleged WA public bribery

A former contractor to Western Australia's Department of Communities allegedly transferred money to a public servant who awarded him contracts.

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Cat wandering ban at Tasmania's new Huntingfield housing development due to endangered bird species

Cat-owning residents who want to live in this new suburban housing development will have to prove to the local council their pets won't roam nearby bushland, where an endangered bird species lives — and while bird watchers have welcomed the rule, one expert doubts it will be enforceable.

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Tenant advocates call for halt to public housing evictions 'without grounds' after human rights complaint

Tenancy rights organisations have called on the WA government to cease evicting public housing residents under "no-grounds" provisions after a Federal Court injunction and a racial discrimination complaint.

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More alleged WA public servant corruption

Western Australia's corruption watchdog has made further allegations against people employed by the Department of Communities.

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CCC unearths alleged 'serious misconduct' at Department of Communities, less than a year after Paul Whyte jailed

A former executive assistant to disgraced public servant Paul Whyte allegedly broke the rules in exchange for expensive gifts and luxury dinners before agreeing to pin the blame on Whyte himself, a Corruption and Crime Commission report finds.

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Allegations of cover-ups, staff frustration and management inaction at Ashley youth prison, abuse inquiry hears

Shredded documents, missing reports and staff too scared to speak up, or ignored — Tasmania's commission of inquiry hears more evidence of what goes on behind the gates at the island's only youth prison.

ABC News

WA childcare centre fined over open gate

A Perth childcare centre has been fined after three young children walked out of an open gate.

AAP

Paul Whyte corruption hearing told he started charging for fake services two days after being hired

Notorious former public servant Paul Whyte began the web of deception that led to him stealing $27 million from the Department of Communities almost as soon as he started working there, a CCC hearing is told.

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Child protection failed to act after alleged abuser found living in caravan on same property with kids, mother says

When Ashley awoke from a coma, she says child safety told her to sign over her parental rights. In a phone call late one night, she learned something "very terrible" that derailed her life.

AAP

'Hog-tied, belittled' in Tas youth centre

A former detainee at Tasmania's troubled Ashley Youth Detention Centre says he was searched naked, hog-tied and constantly belittled by staff at the facility.

AAP

Childcarer fined after boy, 5, left on bus

A childcare provider in Perth has been ordered to pay $27,000 after a five-year-old boy was left on a locked bus for more than two hours.

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CCC begins public examination into Department of Communities following Paul Whyte fraud case

Former Department of Communities director-general Grahame Searle will take the stand as part of the Corruption and Crime Commission's public probe into how disgraced bureaucrat Paul Whyte was able to steal $27 million of taxpayers' money.

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House of horrific WA murder to be demolished to help Tambellup community recover

Residents say its presence is a constant reminder of the gruesome, meth-fuelled attack that shocked their town in WA's Great Southern in 2019.

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Port Hedland rental properties too expensive for family left homeless in booming mining region

A Port Hedland mum who says her family has been without a permanent home since July last year has a long wait ahead of her to get into a home after being priced out of the rental market.

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Esther Foundation, now subject to claims of sexual and psychological abuse, supported by multiple WA govenments

Official statements, news releases and the recollections of a former premier show how multiple WA governments funded, supported and celebrated the Esther Foundation, which is now the subject of a parliamentary inquiry.

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Another corrupt WA public servant at Department of Communities led web of deceit with fake invoices scheme, CCC report finds

Former Department of Communities senior project manager Mark Ainslie received about $200,000 using a fake invoice scheme while fellow public servant Paul Whyte was doing the same thing on a grander scale, the WA corruption watchdog finds.

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Woman in violent relationship has kids removed by child protection authorities

When Rachel first met her partner, she was "impressed" by how well he got on with her children. She didn't know then that he would ultimately cost her her family.

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Child protection system failing vulnerable kids across Australia as case workers speak out

Former kids in state care and child protection workers say the cracks in Australia’s child safety system have become craters, as children are forced to stay with sexual predators and subjected to broken bones.

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Coroner urges quick action to save 'current generation' in findings into Child J's suicide in state care

An inquest finds that while everyone did all they could to help Child J, there were still missed opportunities to prevent the Kimberley teen from taking his own life in state care.

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