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St John WA paramedic Bec Thompson.

Paramedic speaks out after Kalgoorlie attack spurs St John safety campaign

Bec Thompson was in a St John ambulance last year when it was badly damaged in a frenzied attack in Kalgoorlie.

  • Hamish Hastie

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Principal Assistant Ombudsman Alison Cameron, Ombudsman Western Australia Bevan Warner, and Review Director Justine Vassilios.

Damning WA report reveals just 2.5 per cent of serious DV cases get intervention

A major review into the state’s response to family and domestic violence was tabled in parliament today.

  • Holly Thompson
Grace Tame told a national conference about ending violence against women that organisations had cancelled her speaking work for the rest of 2026.

Grace Tame’s bookings cancelled for 2026 amid ‘national smear campaign’

After telling a conference how child sexual abuse thrives on silence, the former Australian of the Year revealed her public speaking engagements for the year had been cancelled.

  • Wendy Tuohy
Melbourne’s tobacco wars are reigniting.

‘They’re getting sent a message’: Tobacco war reignites as Kaz Hamad’s ‘Commission’ fights to retain control

There have been more than a dozen arson attacks and two shootings related to illicit tobacco markets since Hamad was arrested in Iraq in mid-January.

  • Chris Vedelago and Marta Pascual Juanola
Gold Coast mother Kelly Wilkinson was found dead in her backyard.

DV victim’s pleas for help labelled ‘lower priority’ before her murder

Police knew of “high risk” domestic violence complaints against a man weeks before he killed his estranged wife, an inquest has heard.

  • Rex Martinich
The attack happened in the car park of Gold Coast’s Pacific Fair.

Man accused of ‘cowardly’ New Year attack seeks bail

A young man who allegedly threw a “coward punch” that left a victim comatose and bleeding in the early hours of New Year’s Day has been denied bail.

  • Rex Martinich
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The scene of the attack in Loganlea.

Alleged axe attack victims ‘terrified’ over bail bid

Two people allegedly injured by a tomahawk-wielding neighbour are “over the moon” the accused attacker is in custody after being terrified he would get bail.

  • Rex Martinich
More than 10,000 Mexican National Guard soldiers have been deployed to restore order.

Mexico hunts prisoners sprung by cartel as violence fuels World Cup safety fears

Gunmen freed a group of inmates by ramming prison gates with a car, a state official says, amid fears of further cartel violence at this year’s global soccer tournament.

  • Megan Janetsky
The police action on George Street on Monday night.

I’ve worked alongside good police, but what my daughter saw this week shocked me

She asked me why the Herzog protest required such a violent police response. I did not have a simple answer. 

  • Violet Roumeliotis

My dating app ‘match’ imagined his hands around my neck. This is the age of sexual violence

When violent pornography is boys’ introduction to sex, it’s little wonder that six in 10 young Australian women report being strangled during sex.

  • Isabel Cant