A terrified Perth mother is desperately calling on the WA state government to better protect victims of domestic violence.

Her ex-partner was granted bail four times.

The mother-of-three is a domestic violence survivor who wants her story heard and said she's speaking out, while she still can.

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"I'm at breaking point, I'm beside myself and so exhausted, we need help, our women need help," the woman, who 9News is not identifying, said.

The 27-year-old left her partner in January last year after what she describes as years of abuse.

"I've been dragged across the room with my new born baby in my hands, I've been bashed black and blue, I've had to sleep at the train station to get away from him," she said.

She's still living in fear.

Her ex-partner has been charged with a number of offences, including assault, strangulation and breaching protective bail conditions.

Despite that, she says he continues to be released and has been granted bail four times in just twelve months.

"I think it's absolutely disturbing you can give a repeat offender for domestic violence a chance to get out and get bail," she said.

The single mother says she's now terrified in her own home and her young children are all traumatised.

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She says the system has let her down.

"It's like what happens? Do I have to be dead for something to be done?"

She's calling on the State Government to take action and keep domestic violence offenders locked up.

"You need to sit down with victims that are still here and hear our side of the story," she said.

Alison Scott's sister Jessica was killed by her husband almost five years ago. She's now an advocate for change.

"There needs to huge increase in funding in these spaces," Scott said

"Things like GPS tracking which was mentioed in October last year but there's no money in the budget for that."

The Attorney General was unavailable to speak with 9News on camera but says WA's bail laws are among the toughest in the country, with the state government working to tighten legislation to introduce mandatory electronic monitoring as soon as possible.

However Shadow Health Minister Libby Mettam said the state is "living through a family and domestic violence crisis."

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"The numbers don't lie. There have been a 42 per cent increase in family assaults since this government came to office," Mettam said.

National Domestic Violence Service: 1800 RESPECT (1800 737 732). If you are in immediate danger call triple zero (000).

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9newDrivers who get less than five hours of sleep at night are four times more likely to crash, new data has showed.

Traffic Accident Commission and Monash University researchers have found five hours is the tipping point after testing sleepy drivers on a track.

"People are struggling to stay awake, they're not responding quickly, they may not stay within the laneways," professor Clare Anderson said.

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But for one in 10 Australians, five hours of sleep is an average night.

"You need at least five hours to be a safe good driver," executive general manager of road safety Samantha Cockfield said.

"Actually the crash risk is potentially higher than if you've had no sleep at all than if at .05 alcohol level," researcher Jessica Manousakis said.

Driving tired contributes to up to 20 per cent of fatal crashes in Victoria every year and accounts for one quarter of road trauma injuries at The Alfred and Royal Melbourne hospitals.

The TAC have consequently launched a new campaign to target drowsy drivers with the slogan: "Driving tired? Wake up to yourself."

The father of NRL Broncos player Payne Haas has been arrested in the Philippines over an alleged drug smuggling plot, which could see him face the death penalty.

Gregor Johann Haas has been the subject of months-long investigations and is suspected of smuggling drugs in Asia, the Sydney Morning Herald has reported.

The 46-year-old was arrested in Cebu City on Wednesday and is now facing extradition to Indonesia.

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"We suspect him to have networks all over Asia, and we also suspect he has networks in Australia," National Narcotics Agency spokesperson Sulistyo Pudjo Hartono told the newspaper.

"We have good cooperation with Australian police, so we will work with them too."

Indonesian authorities have been searching for Haas after five kilograms of meth was allegedly discovered in December, according to local media outlet Tempo.

Haas also allegedly has links to a Mexican drug cartel according to multiple local news outlets and was found using the fake name Fernando Tremendo Chimenea.

Bureau of Immigration-Fugitive Search Unit chief Rendel Sy told outlet GMA Integrated News the arrest came as a result of a coordinated effort with US and Indonesian drug enforcement agencies.

"The search for him was quite challenging because he knows that the law is looking for him, so he uses different passports or IDs so that he can move freely while hiding," Sy claimed in an English translation of Filipino.

The incident happened around 9pm.

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Australian volunteers, who have been stranded in Vanuatu since an airline's collapse, have been offered a lift home on a luxury cruise ship. 

Sixteen students and their chaperones with the Hive Rotary Club in Albury were on the Pacific island of Tanna when Air Vanuatu unexpectedly declared insolvency last week.

Their club, whose travel insurance policy did not cover insolvency, has been left with $10,000 in out-of-pocket expenses and has been desperately searching for a way to bring the team home.

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Today, however, their luck turned around.

The group have got themselves on charter planes from Tanna back to Port Villa, where a P&O cruise has docked. The company has offered them a ride back to Australia on the six-day Pacific Adventure cruise.

The team were "thrilled" for the "opportunity of a lifetime", Hive Rotary Club president Kellie Kadaoui said in a social media post.

"All have answered a plea for help after being stranded following the collapse of Air Vanuatu," she said.

"P&O has come to the rescue by offering to bring us home. The team will board the ship in Port Vila … at no cost"

The cruise ship will arrive back in Sydney on Thursday.

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Air Vanuatu cancelled all its international flights last week, including those to Sydney and Brisbane, before declaring insolvency.

A statutory report to creditors later revealed the airline has an overall deficit of $US65.9 million ($98.6 million) and owes creditors $US73.5 million ($110 million).

"The company's financial position is dire and it clearly cannot fund its own operations," liquidators from Enrst and Young wrote in the report.

The Vanuatu government has stepped in with financial support as liquidators explore ways to keep the carrier operational.

There are at least 330 vacancies nationwide which Labour says is unacceptably high.