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'Racial profiling' - Indigenous people make up more than half of strip searches by WA Police
More than half of the people strip searched by WA Police so far in 2025-26 were...
Giovanni Torre 24 Jun 2026
Deaths spark call for reforms in WA prison system
The second death of an Aboriginal woman in WA's Bandyup prison in under five wee...
Giovanni Torre 20 Apr 2026
WA Children's Commissioner disappointed by government response to inquiry into state's notorious youth prisons
Western Australian Commissioner for Children and Young People Jacqueline McGowan...
Giovanni Torre 4 Dec 2024
Questions from Greens MP expose "shocking" conditions in WA's prisons
Parliamentary questions from Greens MP Brad Pettitt have exposed a grim picture...
Giovanni Torre 28 Oct 2024
Protest at WA Parliament calls for long-overdue Stolen Generations redress scheme
Protesters gathered outside of Parliament House in Boorloo/Perth Tuesday afterno...
Rhiannon Clarke 14 Jun 2023
WA Stolen Generations mark Sorry Day with renewed call for redress

On National Sorry Day Western Australian Stolen Generations survivors have renewed calls for the state to establish a compensation scheme to address the historic and ongoing injustice.

Giovanni Torre Giovanni Torre May 26, 2023
Shocking details of alleged abuse in WA youth detention revealed in 57 letters from Aboriginal Legal Service

Almost 60 complaints from children detained at Banksia Hill Detention Centre and Unit 18 at Casuarina Prison revealing shocking details of alleged abuse have been tabled in Western Australian parliame...

Giovanni Torre Giovanni Torre May 18, 2023
Leaked emails expose mental health crisis in youth prison, WA Law Society slams "unlawful" treatment of detainees

Warning: this article contains details of a suicide attempt.---A boy inside Western Australia's Unit 18 juvenile detention facility at Casuarina adult prison tried to bite his wrists open days after p...

Giovanni Torre Giovanni Torre May 2, 2023
Senator Dorinda Cox and other prominent Australians launch campaign for Truth-telling commission in WA

Yamatji-Noongar woman and WA Greens Senator Dorinda Cox launches a new campaign and video Wednesday featuring eminent Australians calling for the establishment of a truth-telling justice commission in...

Giovanni Torre Giovanni Torre Jan 25, 2023
Renewed calls for full implementation of Royal Commission recommendations after two Indigenous deaths in custody in four days

WA Senator and Yamatji-Noongar woman Dorinda Cox has renewed her call for state, territory and federal governments to implement in full all 339 recommendations from the Royal Commission into Aborigina...

Giovanni Torre Giovanni Torre Dec 29, 2022
Health services "unfit", prisoners waiting in an outdoor cage, air conditioning delayed until 2024 - new report exposes Roebourne Prison

The latest inspection of Roebourne Regional Prison has raised concerns about "chronic" staff shortages, the long delay in installing air conditioning, and "unfit" health services - including prisoners...

Giovanni Torre Giovanni Torre Dec 22, 2022
Petition for Stolen Generations redress tabled in WA parliament

A petition launched by Stolen Generations survivors in Western Australia calling for a state redress scheme has officially been tabled in parliament.

Emma Ruben Emma Ruben Nov 18, 2022
Alarming figures reveal number of suicide attempts and self harm incidents in WA's juvenile justice system

There have been at least three attempted suicides by children being held at Casuarina maximum security adult prison, it was revealed in parliament on Thursday.

Giovanni Torre Giovanni Torre Aug 15, 2022
Momentum grows for WA Stolen Generations compo scheme as MP backs petition

A WA Greens MP has backed the petition to establish a state reparations scheme for survivors of the Stolen Generation in Western Australia, one of the only two states without one in place.

Emma Ruben Emma Ruben Jun 30, 2022
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