WA news LIVE: School returns as police launch road safety blitz

A woman has been accused of stabbing a man known to her during an altercation at a Thornlie house on Sunday night.

WA Police say they received a report of a disturbance at a home on Carakine Grove about 10pm.

“Police and St John WA attended the scene and located a 47-year-old man with multiple stabwounds,” a spokesman said.

“He was conveyed to Royal Perth Hospital for medical treatment of non-life-threatening injuries.

“The woman was located at the scene and taken into custody without incident.”

A 47-year-old woman has been charged with one count of unlawful wounding with circumstances of aggravation.

She is due to appear in Armadale Magistrates Court today.

It’s the first day of the school year for hundreds of thousands of students across WA today.

WA Police are reminding drivers of the increase in traffic on the roads and 40km/h school zones.

Road Policing Demand Superintendent Glenn Spencer said officers would be out in force from this morning around school crossings to monitor driver behaviour.

“We’ll be using high visibility patrols, and we’ll be patrolling near schools using marked police vehicles, police motorcycles and safety cameras,” he said.

“Police will be targeting dangerous driving behaviours, particularly speeding and driver inattention.

“Officers will be conducting compliance checks to make sure that our drivers and passengers are wearing seatbelts, and the children in the vehicles are using the appropriate child booster seats.”

Here’s what’s making news across the country and around the world today:

• World No.1 Carlos Alcaraz overcame a nightmare opening half hour on Sunday night to defeat tennis legend Novak Djokovic and become the youngest man to complete a career grand slam with his maiden Australian Open title.

• Australia’s housing affordability crisis is showing no signs of abating as the median house price in four capital cities lifts to more than $1 million for the first time.
• Overseas, a five-year-old boy and his father have been released from a Texas ICE facility, where they were held after being detained by immigration officers in Minnesota, following a judge’s order that harshly criticised the Trump administration’s approach to enforcement.

February has certainly arrived with a bang with temperatures pushing into the high 30s. It’s typically our warmest month of the year.

It’ll be a hot first day of the week in Perth before a slightly cooler change then the heat will ramp up again from Thursday.

Good morning and welcome to our live news blog for Monday, February 2.

Making headlines this morning, a friend of the family that were found dead in a suspected murder-suicide in Mosman Park on Friday says the children’s National Disability Insurance Scheme funding had recently been cut.

“The very people the NDIS was created for are the very ones who can’t get the services they so desperately need,” the friend said.

In political news, supporters of Angus Taylor pressured WA’s Liberal leadership rival Andrew Hastie to park his leadership ambitions, creating friction in the party’s conservative wing and complicating its push to oust Opposition Leader Sussan Ley.

Fresh details of the Liberal Party dispute follow a covert meeting in Melbourne on Thursday, held ahead of the funeral of Liberal MP Katie Allen, where powerbrokers sought to end a debate over which MP should challenge Ley following the breakdown of the partnership with the Nationals.

And, in case you missed it, the Fremantle Bridge officially closed yesterday.

Demolition has begun to make way for a new bridge which is due to open in 12 months. It’s expected to have a significant impact on traffic congestion in the area.

Stay with us as we bring you the news of the day as it happens.