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In an entertaining interview on Fox Footy's Open Mike program, West Coast Eagles legend Glen Jakovich discussed the club's off-field issues in the mid-2000s, the tragic death of premiership teammate Chris Mainwaring, his famed rivalry with Wayne Carey and insinuations the Eagles flag-winning players of 1992 and 1994 did something untoward to grow so physically big.

Treasurer Scott Morrison MP says that people like him, who hold conservative Christian views on same-sex marriage, battle hatred and bigotry similar to that experienced by LGBTI Australians.

Drivers commuting south-bound on the Mitchell Freeway on Wednesday morning can expect delays with traffic backed up from Ocean Reef to Scarborough Beach Road

Police are searching for a man who disappeared from Fremantle Train Station after going for a midnight swim at Bathers Beach on Sunday night.

A police spokesman said Daniel McCartney remained at the station on Wednesday and that his mobile phone and some of his clothes had been found nearby.

Bush Forever, a Liberal Party initiative, was supposed to preserve 10 per cent of vegetation on the Swan Coastal Plain.

But projections for a 70 per cent increase in WA's population by 2050 have left bush sites open to development and fauna like the endangered forest red-tailed black cockatoo at risk.

"When I first learned about her existence after seeing suspicious texts on his phone, I was determined to find out whatever I could - who she was, how long she knew my husband and, most important, what she wanted from him.

"So I picked up the phone, and I called her."

And you probably thought car versus house crashes in Perth were bad...

This driver smashed into the bedroom of a sleeping girl and, according to her mother, proceeded to light up a cigarette and leave the scene.

Run away and never look back.

That was just one piece of advice friends offered Trina Hibberd, who found a "f---ing huge" python wrapped around her guest room on Monday morning.

The Donald J. Trump filings with the Federal Election Commission reveal a near-$US1 million spend in May, on hats, pens. T-shirts, mugs and stickers, but when Hillary Clinton had already booked TV ad spots worth tens of millions, Trump had booked nothing.

Hear the rousing speech from an 18-year-old cancer survivor

Sierra and her husband Dustin said doctors told them their son's rare condition, in which his brain was growing outside of his skull, meant he would not live long past his birth. They were urged to consider abortion they chose to continue the pregnancy. They planned to meet their son. Then say goodbye.

But, little Bentley had other plans.

Promising research published in Nature Medicine today has found an existing drug may prevent breast cancer in the estimated one in 400 women carrying the faulty BRCA1 gene, with the first international human trial expected to begin within two years.

Murdoch Uni has teamed up with industry figures to help track endangered Carnaby's black cockatoos by fitting injured birds with leg bands, satellite transmitters and solar-powered GPS trackers. It is hoped this will help identify the feeding and breeding habitat of the birds.

Over the next nine months, a team of Greek conservationists will restore the collapsing chapel built above and around the burial cave where the faithful believe that Jesus was buried and rose from the dead after the Crucifixion.

One day Meghan was there: three years old, full of life, beautiful. The next day she was gone, the victim of a simple accident in the home. This is her mum's story - and the message she wants all parents to hear.

Via Essential Baby

Food giant Heinz Australia is being hauled to court over a fruit and vegetable snack that is more than 60 per cent sugar but sold as a "healthy" food for toddlers.

China's southern city of Yulin began its annual dog meat festival, during which thousands of dogs are expected to be killed and eaten, on Tuesday despite opposition from millions of animal rights activists.

The operator of a 7-Eleven store involved in rampant exploitation of its workers has been handed a record court penalty of more than $400,000. The store owner allegedly asked his staff to secretly repay thousands of dollars after they had been paid back some of the money they were owed.

Long before David Feherty forged a career as a Ryder Cup player and golf's quirkiest and most absurd commentator, his father inspired him with his "borderline idiotic optimism".

Now, after Alzheimer's disease steals his dad away from him, he finds himself thinking about the things he wishes he could have told him.

"A plebiscite designed to deny me and many other Australians a marriage certificate will instead license hate speech to those who need little encouragement," Penny Wong - Senator for SA said. "Malcolm Turnbull, and many commentators on this subject, don't understand that for gay and lesbian Australians hate speech is not abstract. It's real. It's part of our daily life."