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Central Regional TAFE will mark Reconciliation Week with a plan to better support Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander students. The annual campaign promotes relationships between indigenous and non-indigenous Australians, with 2020 its 20th anniversary. Starting today, CRTAFE will host several small-scale campus activities and online presentations, including the launch of …

A former education department project manager misused his position to direct almost $14 million worth of contracts to his own IT company, the Victorian corruption watchdog has found. The Independent Broad-based Anti-corruption Commission’s Operation Betka special report, released on Wednesday, reveals the former project manager, who worked in the IT …

Travel credits and refunds… it’s the hot topics in the travel industry at the moment. Why travel credits rather than refunds? And why are refunds taking so long to be processed? Dennis Bunnik, chariman of the Council of Australian Tour Operators (CATO) tackles those questions and explain the complexities of …

Fremantle defender Reece Conca says there’s no reason his side can’t compete with the best in what he believes will be the most even season we’ve seen for quite some time. The Dockers went into round one with a significant injury list and have benefited hugely from the coronavirus-enforced shutdown, …

Premier Mark McGowan is due to hold a press conference into the latest COVID-19 developments in WA. It comes after a fresh outbreak of the deadly virus on sheep ship Al Kuwait, which arrived in Fremantle from the United Arab Emirates. Six crew members have tested positive for the virus …

For Justin Martin there is no better way of broaching a difficult conversation than through art. And that’s what his hoping his design for today’s The West Australian will do. Mr Martin, a Noongar man, has redesigned today’s The West Australian masthead in honour of Reconciliation Week. He hopes the …

Controversial celebrity chef Pete Evans has flagged he is planning to take legal action after grabbing headlines for touting health conspiracies. Dressed in a wetsuit and still dripping wet and puffing after a morning surf, the axed My Kitchen Rules judge addressed what has been a wild few weeks in …

Ex-Wildcats captain and newly appointed Reconciliation WA chief executive Andrew Vlahov has called for the issue to “go mainstream” — declaring every West Australian has a duty to learn about the State’s tough past. Mr Vlahov and the organisation’s Aboriginal co-chair Carol Innes have also thrown their support behind constitutional …

Talk about an eye for an eye. Former Fremantle goalsneak Hayden Ballantyne recalled the time he got teammate Anthony Morabito back for putting Deep Heat in his underwear. Speaking on the Dyl and Friends podcast, Ballantyne detailed the cunning prank on the luckless midfielder involving his car, back in the …

Children as young as 10 continue to be locked up in Australia, with policy-makers urged to unite on raising the age of criminal responsibility at an upcoming meeting. More than 8350 children aged 10 to 13 faced the criminal justice system in the 2018-19 financial year, a new report from …