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Discrimination case launched over child removals

Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander families have launched legal action against the Western Australian and NSW governments over child removals.

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First Nations boy, 10, dies in apparent suicide while in state care in Western Australia

Advocates say the boy took his own life, leaving his family ‘devastated’ and triggering a coronial inquest

The Guardian - AU

Labor vows to ‘get to the bottom’ of robodebt – as it happened

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Breaking the cycle: protesters demand solutions for youth detainees of Banksia Hill

Advocates say system is broken and government needs to work with local community to support young people

The Guardian - AU

‘I was shattered’: grieving First Nations families accused trauma support service of letting them down

Veronica Nelson’s mother among critics of Thirrili, which encouraged people to contact it if they didn’t feel its support was adequate

The Guardian - AU

How will WA's vast landscape and wide array of Indigenous viewpoints affect how it votes in Voice referendum?

A former state premier says the Voice referendum is a risk "we don't need to take". How will Western Australia's unique landscape and entrenched Indigenous disadvantage affect how it votes?

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Dangerous 'folding up' restraint to be banned in West Australian youth detention this month

The potentially-deadly practice used on children by youth detention officers in Western Australia will be replaced with an alternative method within weeks.

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Cassius Turvey: thousands attend vigils across the country for allegedly murdered schoolboy

Rallies from Perth to Sydney pay tribute to 15-year-old killed on his way home from school in Western Australia

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Thousands gather in Perth suburb to remember Indigenous teenager Cassius Turvey

The mother of Cassius Turvey calls for calm as nationwide vigils mark the Aboriginal teenager's death.

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‘We will see a death’: advocates fear for children inside maximum-security Perth prison after boy self-harms

Teenager taken to WA hospital is one of 17 young people transferred from Banksia Hill juvenile detention centre

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Perth protesters rally over plan to move Banksia Hill Detention Centre boys to Casuarina Prison

WA's Commissioner for Children and Young People and protestors voice their opposition to the transfer of 20 boys from Banksia Hill Juvenile Detention Centre to Casuarina Prison.

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Woman fears her teen grandson may die if transferred with other boys to WA adult prison

Noongar grandmother fears for boy’s safety if state government moves him from Banksia Hill juvenile centre to maximum security jail

The Guardian - AU

Loss of culture, lack of legal support direct children to Banksia Hill detention while parents feel helpless

This mother has lived in the Kimberley for 30 years, but she cannot grow old in her own home because she is helping her children break the cycle of youth crime.

ABC News

COVID-19 lockdowns see WA prisoners go days without washing or exercise

Staff are attacked and prisoners are locked down for weeks at a time as WA's prison system struggles to cope with COVID-19 outbreaks.

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