Setting up tents under the noses of WA’s leaders, 30 of Perth’s homeless residents and allies brought the issue of poverty to the doorsteps of Parliament on Wednesday.

Women living in ‘Tent City’ on Northbridge’s fringe have called for urgent shelter to protect them from escalating rates of sexual assault and violence.

Young girls are being forced to wear tampons for two days, or steal socks from laundromats, because of WA’s chronic rate of period poverty.

Sex workers have been left facing homelessness and hunger due to the impact of Covid-19, sparking calls for the government to provide more assistance.

About 500 people gathered in Langley Park for a youth rally supporting the Black Lives Matters protests last Saturday.

Demand for community-based mental health services has soared during the pandemic, but the McGowan government continues to cut funding to these important preventative services.

Tenancy WA has called on the McGowan government to extend a moratorium on evictions during the Covid pandemic or face a “flood of homelessness”.

A Fremantle Ports manager and his wife are on the run in South Africa after a “sophisticated” fraud scheme at the harbour was uncovered.

Frontline workers in women’s refuges are calling for public support as they brace for an expected spike in demand driven by the Coronavirus lockdown.