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The Latest Breaking News from Halls Creek District High School

Halls Creek leaders look to probe service gaps in a bid to drive down youth crime

Halls Creek community leaders to hold a forum for service providers, Indigenous agencies and government departments to tackle youth offending.

ABC News · Apr 11, 2023

Kimberley student attendance drops again as 95 per cent of public schools record significant falls

Just one in four students in Halls Creek and Fitzroy Crossing are regularly attending school, with other communities recording similar falls since 2020.

ABC News · Mar 23, 2023

Halls Creek truancy crisis whistleblower Brock Burston prepares to fight Education Department punishment

The long-running saga involving education worker Brock Burston will now go before WA's industrial umpire, in a case which continues to highlight desperately low school attendance rates in the Kimberley town of Halls Creek.

ABC News · Feb 22, 2023

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WA Education Minister Sue Ellery apologises to Halls Creek residents over botched truancy plans

A report tabled in parliament on the plans found there were "multiple points of failure" in the Education Department's efforts to get students back to school in the remote Kimberley town of Halls Creek.

ABC News · Aug 18, 2022

WA Education Minister declines to answer attendance plan questions amid Halls Creek high school probe

The Department of Education is questioning its own staff in response to an ABC investigation that raised allegations that attendance plans for students were botched.

ABC News · Aug 2, 2022

Halls Creek school attendance plans spark resident demand for meetings

The WA government is investigating allegations attendance plans at Halls Creek were botched. Frustrated families say meaningful face-to-face meetings are the only way forward.

ABC News · Jul 25, 2022

WA government accused of failing at-risk Kimberley students over plans to address school truancy

WA's Education Minister Sue Ellery once described efforts to address a truancy crisis in Halls Creek as "amazing". Now her department is investigating as families accuse the government of botching school attendance plans.

ABC News · Jul 24, 2022

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Opposition accuses government of intimidating Kimberley education worker who leaked attendance data

Brock Burston's criminal trial highlighted dire school attendance rates at Halls Creek District High School and WA's Opposition says he should not be punished for his actions.

ABC News · Mar 17, 2022

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