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West Australian authorities have backflipped on their last-minute decision not to let Cleveland Dodd's incarcerated father attend the teenager's funeral.

A new and undisclosed technique for restraining young people in detention in WA will not involve "a folding of the legs", but the Department of Justice says further details will not be released.

About 100 cells at Banksia Hill Juvenile Detention Centre have been deemed unusable after being damaged by inmates, but justice advocates say troubled youths are under too much pressure at the facility.

A WA Coroner finds police failed to adequately monitor the breathing of a young mother as she was pinned on the ground for an unnecessary length of time, drawing parallels to the death of US man George Floyd. Warning: This story contains images and names of Indigenous people who have…

First Nations people and experts say more funding for suicide prevention is needed, with a focus on services that connect people to community and culture and tackle poverty.

The rate of suicides among Indigenous children is at critical levels, experts say, with young Aboriginal people nearly five times more likely to die due to intentional self-harm than other young people in the same age range.