Breaking News for Perth, Western Australia
Thousands of foster and family carers will receive one-off payments of $500 or more from the WA Government to help ease household financial pressures experienced through the COVID-19 pandemic. An estimated 7,359 children living in carer households are expected to benefit from the financial boost, which will be provided directly to
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Western Australia is set to host its first major cultural festival since the onset of COVID-19, with this weekend's LiveLighter Multicultural Eid-Adha Carnival to take place tomorrow (August 8) at Burswood Park. Co-ordinated by the Australian Arab Association, the free public family friendly carnival will include international cuisines, music, entertainment, performances
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The WA Government will invest $6 million towards the construction of a new Jewish Community Centre in Yokine to create Western Australian jobs and provide important community infrastructure. The centre, run by Maccabi Western Australia, has been a much-loved gathering place for the Jewish community since 1952. After almost 70 years of
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Police Minister Michelle Roberts has urged Western Australians to spare a thought for missing people and their loved ones during National Missing Persons Week. Every year, WA Police conduct dozens of investigations and in most cases are able to reunite missing people with their loved ones. Western Australia currently has 330 recorded
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The partnership between Virgin Australia and the WA Government is now one of the State's most successful-ever intrastate flight deals, with all of the nearly 8,000 discounted tickets selling out in the first week of the promotion. The partnership, launched on July 21, offered airfares between Perth and Broome and Perth
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Two coastal infrastructure projects worth a combined $11 million have received funding as part of the State Government's latest tranche of WA Recovery Plan initiatives. A range of community and sports infrastructure projects will share a $300 million funding pool aimed at creating an ongoing pipeline of work for local small
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More than 4,700 school children, teachers, and staff from across Western Australia's public schools have undergone their first test for COVID-19, as part of the WA Government's research study scanning the school community for any asymptomatic COVID-19 cases. The program is voluntary, with consent required from parents of child participants and
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Planning is now underway on a multi-million dollar infrastructure upgrade and expansion package for Western Australia's emergency services under the WA Government's $5.5 billion WA Recovery Plan. Some of WA's emergency services volunteers will share in a $13 million fund to upgrade facilities and provide new amenities, as part of a
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$10 million to mobilise specialist volunteers from Western Australia, $10 million in immediate bushfire relief funding and a $50 million investment to support the development of a long-term blueprint for fire resilience were today announced by philanthropic organisation Minderoo Foundation. Minderoo Foundation founders Andrew and Nicola Forrest said the unprecedented bushfire season,
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Premier Mark McGowan and Education and Training Minister Sue Ellery today announced a new 'off and away all day' policy to ban students from using mobile phones during school hours in all public schools. Following consultation with schools which already have guidelines in place about the use of mobile phones, the
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