Perth’s biggest local government has come under pressure to scrap its name that honours a key WA colonial figure to be ‘more inclusive’ for the Aboriginal community.
Caitlyn Rintoul & Nadia Budihardjo
Battlelines in the high-stakes bid to prevent Christian Porter’s preferred barrister from helming his defamation case are taking shape.
Josh Zimmerman
An email sent to 280 staff said directors had ‘worked ceaselessly’ for months to find new avenues of cash without success, leading to yesterday’s ‘toughest’ decision to call in administrators.
Sean Smith
A Busselton man stabbed a police officer as four cops tried to arrest him after he stormed into a caravan.
Carly Laden
A man who claimed he was just ‘being a d.......’ when he terrorised shoppers at a Bentley shopping complex and threatened to blow a pet shop manager’s ‘head off’ with a fake gun has been jailed.
Emily Moulton
The daughter of a swimmer who died suddenly at Geraldton Aquarena yesterday morning has paid a touching tribute to the man who took her on ‘loads of adventures’.
Elise Van Aken, Liam Beatty and Phoebe Pin
St Kilda’s looming $3 million contract extension for key forward Max King has laid down a benchmark that values West Coast’s Oscar Allen at $1.2m per season, according to one prominent analyst.
Braden Quartermaine
It put me in the mind of the English author’s famed opening of his classic novel A Tale of Two Cities: “It was the best of times, it was the worst of times.”
Bill Shorten
The prime minister has described an Australian man’s death from coronavirus in India as a terrible tragedy but said the coronavirus-ravaged country wasn’t safe.
Daniel McCulloch and staff writers
WA’s newest mining recruits have entered the sector from a range of different job backgrounds, capitalising on opportunities in an industry that is struggling with the impact of the skills shortage.
Danielle Le Messurier
One of the biggest steroid seizures in WA history has been uncovered after detectives raided two Perth homes — one of which was allegedly being used solely as a ‘base’ for online drug dealing.
Phil Hickey
Court applications to evict more than 460 families were lodged in the first month after WA’s rental moratorium ended as some landlords scrambled to cash in on the red-hot rental market.
New enrolments at WA private schools have increased at twice the rate as those in public schools in the past 12 months. Here are the factors driving the growth, according to education chiefs.
Bethany Hiatt
Police and forensic scientists are this morning exhuming the remains of the Somerton Man from his Adelaide cemetery grave in the latest bid to solve one of Australia’s most enduring mysteries.
Nigel Hunt, Caleb Bond
A year after a local government restructure, bad blood is boiling over and causing a big rift in an otherwise close-knit and progressive remote community. Lisa Favazzo reports from Mount Magnet.
Lisa Favazzo
WA councils fear thousands of tonnes of recycling is at risk of ending up in landfill when a Federal Government ban preventing some Australian plastic from being sent overseas comes into effect.
A least one inmate is being questioned after patched Rebels bikie Jason Kemp was found unconscious with severe head and facial injuries at Casuarina Prison this morning.
Animal activists have been blasted for urging farmers not to kill mice in the name of ‘human supremacy’, as the rodent plague devastates rural areas.
Police believe a brutal attack on a Rebels bikie member at Casuarina prison that left him with severe injuries was a result of ‘infighting within the club’, as detectives interrogate another inmate.
Daryna Zadvirna
A man has been jailed for more than three years over an unprovoked attack on his mother — who was left lying in a pool of blood and thinking she was going to die.
Liam Beatty
A Geraldton man has been sentenced to a intensive supervision order and banned from owning dogs after he cut the ear off a puppy during a mental health episode.
Australia’s tough new laws against foreign interference are damaging the China relationship and international investment prospects, a new report says.
Sarah Ison
The Premier says growing outbreaks overseas shows there ‘is so much the world still doesn’t know about the virus’, as he backed Scott Morrison’s refusal to set a date for reopening Australia’s border.
Peter Law & Clare Armstrong
The Perth Children’s Hospital emergency department nurses who saw Aishwarya Aswath before she died are set to have their conduct investigated by a medical watchdog.
Peter Law
AMA WA chief Andrew Miller has slammed Roger Cook for ‘trying to shirk the blame’ for the culture within Perth Children’s Hospital’s ED, saying the ‘failure to take accountability was disgraceful’.
Sarah Steger
Assistant Defence Minister Andrew Hastie has welcomed a pledge by China’s new consul-general in Perth to promote “friendship and co-operation” between Beijing and Australia.
One of Perth’s most sought-after haridressers, Amy Baines, reveals why pampering products for the entire head are rising in popularity.
Jade Jurewicz
Researchers at Curtin University have revealed zero-sugar energy drinks are “as bad or even worse” for your health than regular options, with links to heart disease and diabetes.
The rollercoaster of planning a big wedding during a pandemic has seen more couples opting for intimate — and flexible — celebrations, with an emphasis on spoiling fewer guests.
Nood Co is transforming bathrooms all over the world with their colourful concrete creations
In hours of often tearful testimony, a woman told a judge she was slipping in and out of consciousness on a night 18 years ago when she said she found That ’70s Show actor Danny Masterson raping her.
Andrew Dalton
Her quirky girl-power pop anthem and performance was definitely made for Eurovision, but it was always going to be tough for Montaigne to stand out.
It took a whole lot of calories and training for Aussie actor Uli Latukefu to fill the giant shoes — and body — of Dwayne “The Rock” Johnson.
Ariana Grande has posted pictures of her wedding with Dalton Gomez on social media.
Luke Ryan appears primed for a comeback just in time to help stop Buddy Franklin after looking good at training, but Adam Cerra was in joggers as he took things easy. SEE THE PICS
Eliza ReillySports Journalist
The 28-year-old leadership group member was dropped despite taking on the competition’s most dangerous small forwards all season and keeping most of them quiet. Here’s why.
West Coast captain Luke Shuey is used to stepping up when a teammate is in trouble on the field. Off the field, there’s no difference.
Kate Ryan
Andrew Brayshaw has backed teammate Adam Cerra to continue to perform for Fremantle despite speculation about his future at the Dockers reaching fever pitch.
Eliza Reilly
Nick Haynes is set to return from injury in GWS's AFL clash with West Coast at Giants Stadium, bolstering an inexperienced defence.
Rob Forsaith
South Australia deserved their win over WA last Saturday after unleashing the passion that has underpinned more than a century of interstate football. But Wednesday WAFL wonders where was WA’s?
John Townsend
Jye Bolton entered the match against South Australia with a chip on his shoulder about State football and ended it alongside WA great Graham Farmer as the winner of four Simpson medals.
State coach Geoff Valentine has defended WA’s contentious selection policy and disrupted preparation which placed the Black Swans in extreme danger before they were thrashed by SA.
The gap between the SANFL and WAFL has been exposed in brutal fashion with South Australia thumping the Black Swans in a one-way affair at Adelaide Oval.
Defending champions Scotch College remain the only undefeated team in the PSA, but Wesley have emerged as the surprise packet under new coach Michael Broadbridge after claiming their second win.
Mitchell Woodcock
PSA footy returns to the West in 2021 with every game of the season broadcast live and exclusively via our all new live sports hub including a game-of-the-week.
Wesley kicked five unanswered goals in the opening quarter before going on to claim a 12.11 (83) to 7.3 (45) win.
Jack Cleaver showed why Aquinas coach Quinten Lynch and the State 17s selectors rate him so highly, while several other young guns stood out across the three games.
Michael Clarke has doubled down on his ball-tampering claims, while Tim Paine insists Cameron Bancroft’s recent comments will not affect his selection hopes.
Rob Forsaith and Ethan James
For an opening batsman who has built his career on letting the ball go outside off stump, Cam Bancroft has been nibbling dangerously at what he should leave.
Cricket Australia has unveiled a crowded 2021-22 Ashes schedule but the home team will play a Test minnow before England arrives.
AAP
The administrators of gold miner and explorer Adaman are pushing ahead with a sales and restructuring campaign despite ongoing litigation by ousted director Simon Raftery.
Neale PriorPersonal Finance Editor
The pay packets of workers on the east coast are growing much faster than they are in WA, which recorded the nation’s equal smallest rate of wage increases in the first three months of 2021.
Commodity-based shares have lost more than two per cent on a bleak day on the Australian share market.
Steven Deare
The big spending Federal Budget has failed to sustain the recent strength of consumer confidence, a worry for both Treasurer Josh Frydenberg and retailers.
Colin Brinsden
Together with existing cash reserves, the $5.5m raising gives the explorer a war chest to follow up recent gold discoveries at the Side Well and Whiteheads projects.
Stuart McKinnon
The Prime Minister is taking a leaf out of the WA Premier’s book as he looks to become a superhero in the lead up to the Federal election
Jenna ClarkeAssistant Editor
Developments in the past week have convinced me that Perth has emerged from the hormonal horrors of the teenage years to become a semi-functional young adult.
Kate EmerySenior Reporter
While Prime Minister Scott Morrison is under fire over the international barrier, he will finally be understanding what WA has had to deal with all this time from critics in the east.
The report into the tragic death of Aishwarya Aswath shows just how much work is needed to improve the care that is offered to our children.
Morrison might be reading from McGowan’s playbook, but he may just be a casualty of the Premier’s roaring success in WA.
What we’re doing is creating a massive “super” honey pot whose attractiveness exists but for the stroke of a pen.
Nick Bruining
The cat’s out of the bag. The Federal Government now wants you to use your family home to fund your retirement. Some will be better off but there’s hidden dangers for the less well-off.
Despite some changes in Tuesday’s Budget, advocates say the Federal Government isn’t doing enough to ensure women are financially secure in retirement.
Matthew Burgess and Haidi Lun
The government’s new solo parent homebuying scheme won’t help many families get the home they want, despite all the fanfare.
Rebecca Di Nuzzo and Nathan Mawby
There are hundreds of thousands of seniors who toiled for decades without the benefits of our world-class super system who now live on tight budgets built around a fortnightly pension.
Neale Prior
Our Your Money experts looks at your options to make sure your loves ones are provided for financially after you shuffle off.
West Australians are still racing to snap up lots to construct new homes despite the winding up State and Federal government stimulus measures.
Caitlyn Rintoul
The only way forward is north — property experts mean that in more than a literal sense when it comes to Perth’s business future and the role Northbridge will play.
Self-storage is booming as an attractive commercial asset for investors as a pandemic-driven rise in e-commerce has increased demand for spaces across Perth.
The industry is awash with rumours, with subcontractors said to have walked off company projects because they had not been paid.
Four months was all Perth’s racing property market took to lift median house prices more than 10 per cent in a handful of the city’s affluent suburbs.
Amanda Keenan went to La Capannina for the pizza and stayed for the breathtaking outlook and fantastic service.
Amanda Keenan
Check out the new gourmet food producers who are bringing the taste of France to WA.
Could it be a sports bar? Maybe a night club? A late-night burger bar? A jumble of styles looking for a theme it might be — but one thing it isn’t, is bland, writes Rob Broadfield.
Simone and Dan Agostino have combined their talents and passion to create a cookbook that pays homage to their rich Italian heritage.
Zinfandel is one of the most curious of all varieties. In an era when winemakers are generally seeking to reduce alcohol, zin fanatics want just the opposite.
Ray Jordan
After losing its way in the 80s and 90s, Grenache is back, and in the hands of top winemakers, the variety is enjoying renewed popularity among drinkers.
A booming health and fitness industry coupled with Perth’s social drinking culture is driving consumer demand for non-alcoholic options, according to a recently-opened booze-free store.
It was Pinot Picnic’s first hit-out last weekend and while the snap lockdown had its predicted impacts on businesses and our lives, it was not enough to put a dampener on this hugely successful event.
When we asked what he had witnessed Arcadia Waters Sales Manager Brett Hancock said he had started to feel the impact.
Arcadia Waters
We talk to some amateur league legends —past and present— about their experiences.
Perth Football League
A simple and successful way for Year 12 students to reduce stress and improve mental health and wellbeing.
The University of Western Australia
The real-estate realm is feeling the brunt of the demand for property in WA.
Blackburne
Optus Stadium continues to offer unique and high-quality offerings befitting to any event, big or small.
Optus Stadium
Adventure is out there! Have you considered these off-the-beaten-track ideas for down south?
Harvest Road
Granny flats are no longer just for grannies, they’re versatile, innovative and affordable for a diverse array of people.
Summit Homes Granny Flats
When it comes to automation, it can be difficult to differentiate between myth and fact.
Auto Control Systems
A man called Kalgoorlie rangers over concerns about a dangerous homemade fence, but then headbutted a ranger while he was working to remove it.
Amber Lilley
Horizon boss Jon Price said the “significant acquisition” aligned with the strategy of consolidating ground near its proposed mill at its flagship Boorara deposit.
Jason Mennell
WA Food Ambassador Don Hancey has passed on his skills to Kununurra jobseekers in a bid to increase job readiness and boost employment in the East Kimberley town.
The court was told once the man arrived in Perth, he allegedly sold the car — valued at $28,000 — for drugs and cash.
A former National Australia Bank employee who stole tens of thousands of dollars from customers’ accounts to pay off debts has been spared jail and handed a suspended term.
68-year-old man has passed away this morning after he was found unresponsive while swimming at Geraldton’s Aquarena just after 7.30am, despite desperate attempts from staff to revive him.
Post-shutdown Kununurra under pressure, reports STEVE BUTLER
Steve ButlerSenior Reporter
The travel team focuses on getting the perfect wildflower shot in readiness for this year’s season
Will Yeoman
Global Gypsies are running a second basic mechanics course for travellers, writes WILL YEOMAN
WILL YEOMAN goes to Paris and Boston via Melbourne through the National Gallery of Victoria’s exhibition, French Impressionism
MOGENS JOHANSEN deciphers the mumbo jumbo without any of the monkey business
Mogens Johansen
WILL YEOMAN has great company by Rocky Pool billabong, east of Carnarvon
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