The West Australian health minister has apologised to the parents of seven-year-old Aishwarya Aswath after she died at a Perth hospital emergency room, saying she should have had better care.
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Perth and the Peel region of Western Australia have avoided another lockdown for now after no further locally acquired coronavirus cases were detected.
Contact tracers are continuing to work through the movements of the three men but all 16 close contacts identified by WA Health as high risk have returned negative tests.
Results are pending for a further four close contacts, while another 136 contacts are deemed casual or yet to be classified.
All the new cases and their close contacts must quarantine for 14 days.
Sunday s AFL western derby between West Coast and Fremantle at Optus Stadium will be played behind closed doors, with the risk of 45,000 spectators travelling to the stadium deemed too high.
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The parents of a young Perth girl who died while waiting for medical treatment have launched a hunger strike outside the hospital.
Her parents began a protest outside the hospital’s emergency department at midnight on Friday, exactly four weeks after they brought their daughter to the building seeking medical treatment.
Aswath and Praseetha Sasidharan have vowed to remain on strike outside the emergency department until the West Australian government commits to establishing a thorough, independent review of the incident.
“We’ve been let down and we’re losing hope in the system. We are still waiting for the initial report from the hospital,” Aswath said on Saturday.
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Members of the Tamil community in Australia have condemned the federal government’s gifting of drones to Sri Lankan police, amid fears they could be used negatively against the country s ethnic minority.
Earlier this month, the Australian Border Force announced it had given Sri Lankan police five surveillance drones for use in “a wide range of activities” including natural disaster scene assessment and recovery, transnational crime investigation and countering maritime people smuggling.
The move has raised eyebrows and alarm, including from the Tamil Refugee Council, which fears the drones might be used to help prevent Tamils from fleeing Sri Lanka and to monitor political activists.
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