Morning all, and welcome to your mid-workweek blog.
Making headlines, WA sovereign citizens who had their firearms confiscated in police crackdowns are taking their fight to get their guns back to the State Administrative Tribunal, despite the ideology not believing in the validity of the court system.
This masthead understands at least five of those targeted in WA Police’s Operation Ascendant last month will be lodging appeals and have vowed to take WA Police Commissioner Col Blanch to task.
Read more here.
Guns seized in the operation.Credit: Police Media
Hundreds more West Australian students scored an ATAR above 90 in 2024 than five years ago, data shows, with the number of students ranking above 99 in their university admission scores also increasing.
That is despite a declining proportion of people in the school-leaving age cohort of the WA population completing a course that makes them eligible for an ATAR.
Find out why here.
New from Good Food, we find out which Perth restaurants are ladling out the best Indonesian soups – from Balinese-style chicken soup as well as regional styles from across Java and Sumatra not commonly found outside of Indonesia.
And, in case you missed it yesterday, the Osborne Park Football Club has now been suspended from the Perth Football League as the fallout from a controversial “Silly Sunday” costume continues.
Stay with us as more news breaks.
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