As Perth soaks through its second-ever wettest day, it's a different story around the country.
Record-breaking heat has brought New South Wales and the ACT to their knees while it's expected to snow in Tasmania and Adelaide was just shaken by a magnitude 2.7 earthquake.
The latest 'Statistics Digest' from WA's Department of Mines and Petroleum shows the mining industry shed more than 3000 workers, from 105,470 to 102,273, in the past two years. The numbers include regular employees and contractors.
As many times stated, I had no desire to see two good men, let alone men over 40, try to batter the other's brain stem to the point that the other would sink into unconsciousness and suffer brain damage while the crowd roars for more, and nothing has changed.
"The bush they plan to decimate in the next couple of weeks is unbelievably beautiful. There are countless balgas, 300 year old tuarts, who knows how many bandicoots and other fauna have their homes there.
"After today's destruction a flock of red-tail cockatoos were circling, looking for their homes and screaming. It was devastating to listen to."
MSNBC reported on Friday night local time that a senior official said the Trump administration would not ask the US Supreme Court to reconsider the ruling by the federal appeals court. The administration could still ask a larger panel of judges of the appeals court to reconsider the case.
Minutes later, White House chief of staff Reince Priebus reversed the earlier statement, saying the White House was "reviewing all of our options in the court system," including possibly going to the Supreme Court.
Comedian Rosie O'Donnell has, of course, put up her plan to play Trump's chief strategist Steve Bannon.
Now, The Good Wife star Christine Baranski has thrown her hat in the ring. Speaking at the premiere of sister series The Good Fight, the award-winning actor joked that she has an uncanny resemblance to Trump's education secretary Betsy DeVos.
You could argue that the modern dating show is the nadir of contemporary culture, a place where the great Western traditions of romance, courtship and marriage are reduced to the coarsest of animal instincts: the twin urges to root and to be on telly. At the same time if necessary.
But you might also argue the opposite. That these rapid-fire romances are the pinnacle of advanced capitalist society, brilliant expressions of Efficiency and Productivity, the ideal couple of the modern age.
Former Liberal MP Ross Cameron has resisted making an apology for derogatory remarks about gay people he made at a conservative fundraiser, as colleagues and the NSW Liberal Party distance themselves from him.
Miranda Kerr has sent the internet into something of a tizzy with an interview given to The Times this week in which she spoke about motherhood, dissed Facebook and maybe alluded to her and billionaire Snapchat founder fiancé Evan Spiegel (who she has been dating since June 2015 and became engaged to in July last year) waiting until they get married to have sex.
The parents of 20-year-old Emily Collie say they "do not believe anybody was at fault" for the crash that killed her in waters off Kata beach in Thailand on Sunday.
What those outside the Canberra bubble make of it remains to be seen, but what is abundantly clear is that Turnbull is determined to do everything within his power, and then some, to recover from one of the most miserable of starts by a national government to a political year.
"Running water has always been a portal for me, creatively," he says. "Sensory deprivation will do it. When you hear water over and over again. Or when you're on a plane and you're hearing the air. All of a sudden one part of your mind focuses on that and the other side, your imagination, just runs wild. It just allows for things to come in. You have to distract the ego."
When it comes to relationships and sexual pleasure, let’s be real about what empowerment means: education, the right to say no, freedom of expression, the opportunity to explore, and choice.
For these crucial goals, Fifty Shades Darker is not an aspirational story for women. Mr Grey is no Romeo. He is the antithesis of a desirable role model for men.
When Australians think of IS fighters, notorious foreign exports come to mind: recruiter Neil Prakash, wild-eyed Khaled Sharrouf, or young Jake Bilardi, who blew himself up for nothing.
But many of this movement's footsoldiers are ordinary Iraqi Sunni Muslims, often from rural areas and with little education. Frustrated and feeling abandoned by the Shiite-dominated national government in Baghdad, they were swept up in a common cause, believing in IS they had found a better, purer future.
For women whose self-worth appears to hinge so tightly on what men think of them (and whose ambitions seem driven by the desire to be the Official Woman in the roomful of men whose professional company they aspire to), being suddenly cast in the glare of disapproval must feel like a betrayal.
"It's my experience that a white footballer has a calf injury and it's a calf injury and a black footballer has a calf injury and it's a drug problem."
