Church admits it failed to protect boys from paedophile priest Raymond Cheek
The Anglican Church was aware of the inappropriate behaviour of a serial paedophile priest as far back as the early 2000s but failed to act, the Diocese of Bunbury admits.
View ArticleSex abuse claims: Class action against former Esperance priest Father Kevin...
Lawyers prepare a class action against the Catholic Diocese of Bunbury on behalf of three people who say they were sexually abused by a high-profile priest in Esperance in the 1960s and '70s.
View ArticleI'm a Muslim, ask me anything: Perth Imam Kamran Tahir tackling Islamophobia...
Australia's youngest imam doesn't see the need for Muslim schools and he'd rather shake a woman's hand than cause offence. He's even happy for cameras to be installed in his Perth mosque and has...
View ArticleDying to Know Day: National initiative Dying to Talk encourages communicating...
A national initiative aimed at encouraging preparedness for death may help those struggling with the topic approach the elephant in the room.
View ArticleFormer Bunbury priest jailed over cartoons featuring child sex abuse
A paedophile former Bunbury priest is sentenced to 12 months behind bars for possessing comic strips featuring children being sexually abused.
View ArticleGardener plugs in to 1960s CIA interrogation technique to get her plants to sing
The work of a CIA polygraph expert in the 1960s has led groups as diverse as an Italian commune and a WA gardener to wire-up their plants to get them to sing.
View ArticleInquest into cult leader Simon Kadwell, Chantelle McDougall and daughter...
Simon Kadwell preached to followers worldwide about a looming judgment day from a quiet WA town. That was 10 years ago, and he and his family have not been seen since. Today an inquest may finally...
View ArticleCult leader Simon Kadwell inquest hears police failed to investigate leads...
An inquest into the disappearance of a cult leader and his family from a small West Australian town is told police failed to fully investigate all of the possible evidence, including reports of the...
View ArticleCult leader Simon Kadwell's followers influenced to take their own lives,...
A self-styled religious cult leader may have influenced two of his followers to suicide before he disappeared with three other people, including a mother and child, from a quiet WA town, an inquest hears.
View ArticleCult leader Simon Kadwell abused ex-girlfriend as she tried to leave, Nannup...
A self-styled cult leader assaulted a girlfriend, one of three he had at the time, when she tried to leave him, an inquest into the disappearance of a family of four in WA is told.
View Article'Doomsday cult' coronial inquest fails to solve mystery surrounding...
A coronial inquest into the disappearance of a self-styled religious cult leader and his family in WA fails to determine whether the group is alive or dead, leaving parents without answers after 11 years.
View ArticlePaedophile priest investigation turns to regional Western Australia to reveal...
A law firm turns its attention to regional Western Australia in a bid to reveal the full extent of prolific paedophile priest Denis McAlinden's abuse of young children.
View Article'WA's tiniest church' gets a makeover after being ploughed into by cars on...
A church dubbed the smallest in Western Australia has been closed since 2012 when a car ploughed through its facade, but the church's community is fighting to restore and reopen it.
View ArticleWhy does a donkey have a cross? It depends who you ask
Scientists, storytellers and Christians have all tried explaining why donkeys around the world have a peculiar marking resembling a cross.
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