WA's North West has been branded the nation’s most exposed strategic frontier, with defence strategists and state officials warning the vast, resource-rich region lacks the critical infrastructure and baseline readiness needed to withstand or support a major conflict.
A Perth company fined $975,000 over a workplace death will pay nothing while its two directors are due to get a $158,000 distribution from the company’s liquidators.
That is the surprising but entirely legal financial outcome from the tragic death of a 16-year-old worker at a factory in Welshpool three years ago.
The case concerns RPC Surface Treatment and its two directors and shareholders, Matthew Clarke and Michael Miller.
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02 Oct 2026
