WA Minister for Child Protection and Women's Interests Simone McGurk has offered her take on renewed calls for smacking to be banned in a bid to stop the scourge of domestic violence.
Sarah Steger
A Mandurah clothing shop has come under fire for displaying a shirt in its window that allegedly makes light of domestic violence, with even WA Premier Mark McGowan weighing in to condemn it.
Amber Johnston
Domestic violence reform will dominate this week of parliament with Labor and the Coalition to make pledges to stop the horrific killings of women in domestic violence incidents.
Lanai Scarr
A survey of nearly 5000 schoolchildren — the biggest of its kind ever undertaken in WA — shines a light on what teenagers think about their friends, sex, drugs and their bodies.
Kate Emery
Australians are proud of their defence forces and want to know they are looked after when they hang up their uniforms. A ban on the Aboriginal flag and welcome to country ceremonies needs to go.
In an extraordinary interview, the family of Hannah Clarke, have said she was so badly burned only a single footprint remained which they want to become a symbol of her legacy.
Benedict Brook and Ally Foster, news.com.au
An empty milk bottle helped missing Chinese student survive five days lost in gold Coast hinterland.
Michael Doyle
Middle-aged ‘Karens’ are verbally terrorising retail workers but young ‘eshays’ are terrorising people on the street, sometimes with violence. We need to work out who is the bigger problem.
Jenna ClarkeAssistant Editor
Defiant animal rights activist James Warden is “proud” of stealing live-stock from WA farms and says he is preparing for a stint in prison when he faces court charged with the theft of a calf.
Sarah Ison
A large crowd held a colourful and noisy demonstration in the eastern German city of Dresden, in opposition to a rally by neo-Nazis.
Christiane Raatz and Joerg Schurig
A 37 per cent increase in the number of strip searches of children by WA Police in the past five years has sparked calls for a change of the organisation’s policies.
Peter de Kruijff
Boredom, non-existent parenting and poverty are driving young indigenous people across rural Australia to risk their lives using synthetic drugs.
Phil Hickey
The families of three female high school runners in the US have filed a federal lawsuit seeking to block transgender athletes in Connecticut from participating in girls sports.
Pat Eaton-Robb
Jetstar ground crew will strike for 24 hours on Wednesday to protest against the airline's current employment proposal, promising chaos for travellers.
Jodie Stephens
Kevin Rudd has refuted claims the Closing the Gap targets had not been set with proper consultation, and says he is worried Scott Morrison is planning on watering down those goals.
Annabel Hennessy
Increased reports of bullying from boys to Kids Helpline prompts calls from mental health experts for more emotional education and anger management classes in schools.
Lanai Scarr and Steve Butler
Little Women could win at the Oscars on Monday. But it probably won’t. The Academy places too much stock in stories about wars and dead people to care about the story of these young women.
A one-year-old girl taken from a Gold Coast property by her father has been found safe and well in Brisbane.
Tracey Ferrier
What does it take to forgive? I’d never really asked myself that question, until a woman called Leila Geagea Abdallah said she forgave the man who allegedly killed her three kids on a Sydney street.
Gemma Tognini
A teenager has broken her legs and an arm after jumping off the roof of a Perth detention centre because she was so worried about not having a place to live when she got out.
Thousands of Invasion Day protestors chanting “change the date” caught the attention of revellers awaiting Skyworks at Perth’s foreshore this afternoon.
Peter de Kruijff and Caitlyn Rintoul
Australia Day in the Northern Territory involved people from 26 countries taking up citizenship.
Greg Roberts
A four-year-old boy has been found in bushland 24 hours after he went missing on his family's propery in rural Victoria.
The Australia Day Honours list for 2020 is heavy with community heroes, including a saviour of struggling farmers who died before he could share his news.
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