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Authorities in WA have leapt to defend the way police responded to concerns raised by the wife and daughter of Floreat double murderer Mark Bombara prior to the shootings.
The WA government will introduce knife laws it says will be "the toughest in the country", effectively allowing officers to scan people in any public place.
With police in WA poised to get new stop-and-search powers targeting knives, the question is whether that translates to making the community safer, or strays closer to the type of laws the police minister opposed strongly a decade ago.
A former immigration detainee, released after the High Court ruled indefinite detention was unlawful, receives a suspended sentence for breaching his curfew and letting his GPS tracker's battery run out.
The WA budget is being announced, with the state expected to confirm a $4 billion surplus. Follow live as we unpack the details.