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Over the past year, the scourge of sexual abuse in the WA mining sector has been laid bare for the whole country to see.

Reporting in The West Australian prompted a parliamentary inquiry, which revealed the shameful treatment of women on remote mine sites and how little the big mining companies did to stop it.

Or see the perpetrators face any kind of justice.

In the wake of these revelations, those big mining companies have pledged to do better.

But let’s be honest… they couldn’t bloody do much worse.

Still, it must be said that new protocols around reporting abuse and strategies for preventing it from happening - like alcohol limits on mine site - have created a safer environment for female FIFOs.

But one massive question still remains.

Where are those female FIFOs going to come from.

Women are still drastically under represented in the resource sector.

Nationally, more than 270 thousand people work in mining, but only about 50 thousand are women.

That’s why Federal Resources Minister Madeleine King is meeting today with 14 top mining execs to figure out how we can get more women into the industry.

The short answer… is not easily.

Beyond the highly publicised issues around safety, which have given the resource sector a massive black eye. the reality is that uni and trade courses that train workers for the industry are also dominated by male enrolments.

So, if the government and mining industry are serious about attracting more women, they need to start by appealing to high school and uni students.

Create more graduate female geologists, engineers and tradies, and you’ll get more of them working on mine sites.

Because to really generate change in this sector you can’t just poach a few women from office and hospo jobs in Perth, luring them in with bigger pay packets and hope that having more women on site will make all the cultural problems go away.

What the sector needs is women in senior positions in management roles and that goes back to what I said before about training.

The government has to find a way to encourage or incentivise women to take up this training. Otherwise the change we’re hoping for in the mining sector will be superficial, at best.

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An eight-year-old boy threw the first punches in a senseless, unprovoked alleged bashing of an unsuspecting 91-year-old stranger which left him with shocking injuries including fractures to his cheek and eye.

The great-grandfather and his 86-year-old female friend were leaving Rockingham’s Cruising Yacht Club after a night out on Friday when, without warning, the child opened the car door and punched him in the head several times.

The alleged assailants were strangers to the victim and there had not been any prior interaction between them before the alleged sickening assault.

Sunrise correspondent Matt Tinney has the details.

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WA’s domestic tourism market has been among the slowest in the nation to recover from the impact of COVID closures, new figures reveal.

Tourism Research Australia data released this month showed domestic visitation in WA in the month of May — both interstate and intrastate travellers — was eight per cent below pre-pandemic levels.

Domestic travel in NSW was down nine per cent in May compared to the same month in 2019, while Queensland was back on level pegging.

Every other State and Territory recorded an increase in visitors — led by the Northern Territory with a whopping 55 per cent improvement and Tasmania at 23 per cent.

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There'a talks of the NRL Grand Final being hosted in Perth. Sunrise correspondent Matt Tinney has the details.

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Sunrise correspondent Matt Tinney talks us through Freo fever hitting Perth.

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We know the hospitality industry, like so many sectors of the economy, has been hit hard by workers shortages. Well, a Perth start-up believes it may have the solution.

Joining the show to explain is general manager of FrothStop, Daniel Andrew.

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The coronial inquest into the death of Aishwarya Aswath is underway, and Day 2 saw even more revelations about what went wrong at Perth Children’s Hospital on April 3 last year.

In the court is Legal Affairs Editor Tim Clarke, who joins the show to take us through the first week of the inquest. morning mate.  

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Some people might be uncomfortable talking about it, but it’s something that impacts 50 per cent of the population.

What am I talking about?

Periods.

And the topic has made headlines this year by Scotland introducing free products, and schools over east this year announced they’re giving out free products, But that’s not the case in WA.

Musician, author and period advocate Lucy Peaches has written an open letter to Premier Mark McGowan to urge WA to offer free period products in schools, and she joins the show to talk all about it.

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The road to Flagmantle is paved purple.

And Purple fever has officially hit Perth. 

Freo fans are getting more confident in talking about Flagmantle as the dockers enter finals.

At The West, we’ve decided to look back at the history of the Fremantle football club. And who better to take us through it than Fremantle historian Les Everett.

To watch the Flagmantle series, head to thewest.com.au

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