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It has been tagged the Vegemite for Marmite swap but there are plenty of other palatable elements to the Australia-United Kingdom free-trade agreement to digest.
Today we return to a subject that has been all too familiar for many years — the ‘unacceptable’ pressure on WA’s courts.
Allowing the family out of their detention nightmare is the right decision and it’s muddled thinking to suggest their experience will lead to a flood of asylum seekers trying to reach Australia.
There is no doubt the single biggest cultural issue of the past 12 months has been the appalling treatment of women across Australia.
Mr Palmer should abandon his action and find another hobby.
Today WA can take a significant forward with more than 1.6 million residents — including 750,000 people aged 30 to 49 — now eligible to receive the Pfizer jab.
When Scott Morrison attends the G7 summit in Britain later this week as one of the few specially invited guests, Australia will well and truly have earned an admission ticket.
The Long Walk to reconciliation that began 17 years ago arrived in Perth on Saturday, with 10,000 people colouring Matagarup Bridge black, yellow and red.
A young, educated man embarks on a mid-career change of direction and within months is appointed to the boards of two of the most influential companies in the nation — so what’s the problem?
The signs have been all too apparent for some time now — and visible to the wider community through the so-called tent city which sprang up in the Perth CBD, which was then replicated in Fremantle.
WA footy fans jumped at the opportunity to be part of the Indigenous celebration for the blockbuster clash between Essendon and Richmond after the match was moved from the MCG because of COVID-19.
There are plenty of reasons to be concerned about the latest turns in the COVID battle. But it is important to keep in mind the one big positive that has sprung from it.
West Australians have a chance to pay their respects to the contribution to our national game offered by Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander players — and watch a blockbuster of a match too.
Losing a child is heartbreaking, but the pain of waiting to discover whether your son or daughter had adequate medical care before their death takes things to a completely different level.
For the next seven days family, friends and compatriots in one of our favourite cities will find themselves grappling with the anxieties of yet another move to stop COVID-19.
“As we approach the bicentenary of the State in 2029, we’ve got a huge opportunity to say we’re going to have a new future.”
Health workers at the coal face delivering the services we need must be shown the respect they deserve and given a fair hearing if we are to to get the health sector back on track.
While we may once have believed we were among the leading education nations, international comparisons in recent years have often thrown that categorisation into doubt.
West Australians have enjoyed minimal impact from COVID-19 and it is against this backdrop that people are holding back being vaccinated, thinking it is not that urgent here. Here’s why that’s wrong.
The public expects better from all concerned in this matter. They expect all sides to work together to find solutions and to make real and lasting change. So, let’s make it happen.
Hard-working subcontractors deserve legislative protection so that they are not the losers — through no fault of their own — when businesses, like Pindan Group, go under.
While Prime Minister Scott Morrison is under fire over the international barrier, he will finally be understanding what WA has had to deal with all this time from critics in the east.
The report into the tragic death of Aishwarya Aswath shows just how much work is needed to improve the care that is offered to our children.
© West Australian Newspapers Limited 2020
