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Treasurer Scott Morrison supported the banks' actions but would not try to explain them.

Big banks short-change customers after rate cut

A Kalamunda couple's dream home has turned into a nightmare.

Dream home build turns into a nightmare for Perth family

The fire in West Perth.

Traffic chaos as West Perth building goes up in flames

Martin Fulton (left) has been sentenced to eight months in jail.

Eight months behind bars for security guard head kicker

ATO tax fraud scams, like this one, have been doing the rounds in WA.

'Nasty' ATO money scam targets vulnerable West Australians

Leanne Morgan says the system has failed; and she is the result.

'I may die': Perth mum with anorexia let down by WA health system

Forced redundancies as West Australian deals with falling proft

Man charged with murder of Perth DJ Jaime Fernandez

Couple wakes up to discover large 'sinkhole' in backyard

QLD

US basketballers snub athletes and stay on luxury cruiser off Rio

Perth bride reeling from big fat Greek wedding travel scam

The orcas stalked the humpback mother and her calf for five hours before their hunt was finally successful.

Tour boat gets close-up view of orca hunt off WA

The conversation between 'Sober' and 'Drunk' Steve.

Man's viral note to 'drunk self'

The look on Matt Priddis' face might sum up the feelings of some fans contemplating the potential lack of spectacle of ...

Five reasons to watch the least anticipated Western Derby

The Snapchat image.

Collingwood's Dane Swan attracts attention with saucy snap

The group of cyclists travel on General Holmes Drive.

Cyclist takes footage to police after 'road rage' video

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Owl bullied by group of birds in South Perth park

PERTH, AUSTRALIA - JULY 31: Matthew Pavlich of the Dockers is greeted by his wife Lauren and children Harper and Jack ...

Matthew Pavlich's 350th game in pictures

Ronan Keating will perform in Perth as part of his world tour in November.

Win tickets to Ronan Keating at Kings Park

Heavy snow blankets Jenolan Caves in western NSW as rain sets in for Sydney

9:34PM

Why breeding bulldogs is borderline inhumane

9:20PM

Cabinet voted 11-10 in favour of Rudd's UN bid

8:56PM

Di and Bill Mitchell at their Yallingup property where they have created a fire retardant garden and water catchment ...

Yallingup residents rule elements with fire resistant garden

Emma Kirk

Dog’s breakfast in Mandurah as Japanese pet cafe trend takes hold

Jess Cockerill

Meth in the water reveals WA's $2 billion drug problem

Heather McNeill

Serial rapist Nigel Yates granted release from WA jail

"Pearl" is believed to be only three or four weeks old.

Rare albino calf spotted off the south-west coast of WA

Brendan Foster

Kings Park and the area around war memorials have become Pokemon hotspots.

Premier joins chorus saying 'No Pokemon' at WA war memorials

Regional personal insolvency statistics for WA, June quarter 2016.

Mining boom hangover starting to bite as WA goes bankrupt

David Prestipino

Luckier than some ... Malcom Turnbull was able to recover most of his investment in PlayUP.

Another roll of the dice for venture PM once backed

The group of cyclists travel on General Holmes Drive.

Truck driver films 'road rage' spray at cyclists

NSW
Georgina Mitchell

Mystical Fire has been blamed for children falling ill at Deception Bay North State School.

Health alert after 'Mystical Fire' poisons school kids

QLD

Sewerage testing has found West Australian's use $2 billion worth of methamphetamine each year.

Meth in the water reveals state's $2b drug problem

Heather McNeill

Prime Minister Malcolm Turnbull has received mixed advice on the wisdom of challenging the Herbert election result.

Scale of Coalition's poor election result slowly emerges

ANALYSIS
Mark Kenny

No police action on Labor's election 'Medicare' text messages

Tom McIlroy

Shorten says right-wing 'puppet masters' will control Turnbull

Fergus Hunter

Scraped home in South Australia; Family First Senator Bob Day.

Family First re-elected to Senate in SA, Labor and Greens miss out

Michael Koziol

Peter Hendy conceded defeat on election night, becoming the first one-term Eden-Monaro MP since the 1970s.

PM hires key backer Hendy as chief economist

Fergus Hunter

Dinkus for Mark Kenny . Photo: Alex Ellinghausen

Turnbull must find courage to avoid a bleak future

ANALYSIS
Mark Kenny
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Peter Dutton spoke to Ray Hadley.

PNG court orders Australian Manus resettlement plan

A man films Li Wenzu, left, wife of imprisoned lawyer Wang Quanzhang, holding a paper that reads "Release Liu Ermin" as ...

China rights activist 'confesses' to subversion

Philip Wen

Seaweed farmer Nikodemus Manefa works off the Indonesian island of Rote, where locals say their fish stocks and seaweed ...

Farmers launch class action over Montara oil spill

Jewel Topsfield

Citizen Vain: Republican presidential candidate Donald Trump is a meme sensation #DonaldTrumpTheMovie.

Billionaires turning on Donald Trump

Paul McGeough

Gregg, Kathryn and Lachlan Brain with Scottish MPs in Edinburgh in May. The Australian family have lived in the Scottish ...

Australian family fails to win reprieve from deportation

Nick Miller

Osama bin Laden's group advised that Islamists should emphasise taking care of civilians they conquered. Islamic State ...

How the US will win the war with IS

COMMENT
Peter Hartcher

Show we only tick Christian on the census if we can sign off on the Nicene Creed?

Religious identity has meaning

COMMENT
Michael Jensen

Prime Minister Malcolm Turnbull announced Brian Martin as head of the royal commission into child protection and youth ...

Chance now for PM to get NT inquiry right

AUGUST 2

Concerns include a general clause that says a resident can lose the right to reside in the village if they cease being ...

Elderly trapped in 'financial exploitation'

EXCLUSIVE
Adele Ferguson

Investigations found the underpaid workers were receiving illegal flat rates.

$15 an hour: the 'going rate' for Koreans

Nick Toscano
48m ago

The big four banks want to protect their profits and are not passing on rate cuts in full.

Banks act to protect profits

Clancy Yeates and Patrick Hatch

Illustration: John Shakespeare.

Not all fun and games at Seven

Colin Kruger, CBD

Tesla-town plan for mega development

Simon Johanson

Nothing to fear but fear itself

COMMENT
Tracey McNaughton

Incriminating tapes out of context: Westpac

Sarah Danckert

Coles battles to get fresh on the shelves

Catie Low

Having my own house gave my life a sense of certainty.

How buying a house gave me something a relationship couldn't

If all else fails, you can always hide the mess.

The quickest ways to get your house clean and in order

Remember, moving house isn't always fun.

Eight things you always forget about moving house

Adam Beck working behind the scenes to bring IOBY and its in-our-backyard projects to Australia.

IOBYs and YIMBYs pursuit for better communities

The owners of Chateau de-la-Motte Husson traded in their East London flat to buy the fairytale castle in the Loire Valley.

Family swap city flat for fairytale chateau in France

Dappr Aviation suggests many uses for the fuselage pieces it converts into small rooms, including a poolside cabana.

The funky new rooms made out of tired old airline jets

Stephen Lacey

Boghossian Jewels boulder opal and emerald butterfly brooch.

Luxury jewellery creating a bit of a buzz

Melissa Pearce

Martin Flood is concerned that ASX rule changes will make it harder for him to access sharemarket floats.

Small investors to be locked out of sharemarket floats

John Collett

Personal loans are cheaper than credit cards.

The cheaper debt product Aussies forgot. Hint: it's not plastic

Nicole Pedersen-McKinnon

The Pokemon game Pokemon Go has swept the world.

Pokemon Go a great new marketing channel

Alexandra Cain

Anthony Mitchell explains the real barriers to true business leadership in Australia.

Why leadership is failing in Australia and how to fix it

Anthony Mitchell

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Fire breaks out in Australian Olympic quarters

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Royal commission needs Aboriginal involvement: Shorten

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Australian arrested over terrorism-related activities

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Citizen Vain: Republican presidential candidate Donald Trump is a meme sensation #DonaldTrumpTheMovie.

Trump's war with Hollywood just got viral

Aja Styles

Quitting ... AC/DC's long-term bassist Cliff Williams, left, with Stevie Young, Angus Young, Chris Slade, and now ...

Is AC/DC over? Tour could spell end for Young

Aja Styles

Reunited and it feels so good: Kyle Sandilands and former newsreader Geoff Field.

Sandilands kisses and makes up with gay newsreader after feud

Michael Koziol

Rebel Wilson's cameo as an air steward hostess in Absolutely Fabulous: The Movie.

Rebel Wilson filmed Ab Fab movie role in one day

Danielle McGrane

Pregnant Rebecca Judd recoiled as Nine News colleague Tony Jones kissed her goodbye.

Pregnant Judd's awkward on-air farewell

Ebony Bowden

Ethicist Peter Singer on Q&A.

Controversial ethicist accused of advocating infanticide on Q&A

Neil McMahon

Taking the mick ... Tatum (centre) in one of his most famous roles in Magic Mike.

Channing Tatum to wear a tail in reboot of fishy classic

Sarah Thomas

John Cleese has launched his own YouTube channel "to benefit the advertising revenue".

John Cleese wants you to know he's 'still alive' and working

Sarah Thomas

Emma Booth and Stephen Curry in Perth film, Hounds of Love.

Perth thriller selected to screen at Venice International Film Festival

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Shadowland sneaks up on Perth

The new 480ml mug at the Wembley Hotel which was sold to us as a pint.

Sneaky pint-sized tricks not smart for Perth pubs

David Jones ambassadors Jessica Gomes and Jesinta Campbell preparing for the launch of the 2016 Spring/Summer ...

How David Jones gets its ambassadors ready for the catwalk

Melissa Singer

Kanye West wants to collaborate with Ikea.

Kanye West wants to collaborate with IKEA

Amy Croffey

Oprah Winfrey on stage during her An Evening With Oprah tour in 2015 in Melbourne.

Why Oprah uses this Rodin face oil on her feet

Stephanie Darling

Eating more regular, smaller meals may do nothing to curb your appetite.

Study suggests it may be time to stop 'food grazing'

Carrie Dennett

Miss Texas Teen USA 2016 Karlie Hay will be keeping her crown despite her history of racism on Twitter.

Miss Teen USA keeps crown despite her racist tweets

Elahe Izadi

"For all of us in that in-between space, perhaps you don't need to always feel aligned with your environment or even ...

Bleach-laced facials and other challenges of a visit to my parents' homeland

Sarah Malik

The 4th Trimester Bodies Project is a group of women who share images of their post-birth bodies and aim to reduce ...

Why the so-called 'mummy wars' are a load of tosh

Celina Ribeiro

A man prays at a makeshift altar in front of the Tsukui Yamayuri En care center for the disabled on July 29, 2016 in ...

Why didn't Japan's worst mass killing since WWII rate?

Carly Findlay

Getting naked is not about 'empowerment'

Sarah Jayne

#MenInHijabs has gone viral, following a call for men to support women's rights by Iranian journalist and activist Masih ...

Why men in Iran are donning the hijab

Rob Moran

Beautiful sexy woman enjoying the taste of fresh strawberry on a red background

Hedonistic or healthy: What you eat and what it says about you

Sarah Berry

weights

The five most overrated gym exercises of all time

Daine McDonald

Omsk, Russia - September 20, 2015: two runners are running during Siberian international marathon

Compression garments may help with muscle recovery

Gretchen Reynolds

The sweetest drink around: hot chocolates from Yarra Valley Chocolaterie

Are these Australia's most creative hot chocolates?

Sofia Levin

Neil Perry's cauliflower fritters.

Meal planner: Vegetarian recipes for Meat-Free Week

Woah Nelly donuts, for quick bites, made by Janell Smith.

Australia's best doughnuts

Lauren Sams

They wanted to see <i>Bad Moms</i>, but two US women say they were left feeling like terrible parents.

Mums kicked out of 'Bad Moms' screening

Staff writers

The times we need to be mean.

The times when you need to be a mean parent

Maggie Dent

Seven-year-old's tongue after consuming Warheads Juniors Extreme Sour last year.

CHOICE warns parents about the dangers of sour lollies

Ariane Beeston

Tourists relax in the thermal pools in the Bolivian Altiplano.

The wild, weird and unadulterated country no one talks about

The Backpacker
Ben Groundwater

A killer whale attacks a turtle in the Galapagos Islands.

Spectacular killer whale attack caught on camera

Craig Platt

The biennial Flower Carpet festival in Brussels' city square.

Giant flower carpet to take over European city square

Europe
Annie Dang

Some of the new and redesigned emoji that will soon appear on Apple platforms.

New Apple emoji include friendlier pistol

Tim Biggs

Gareth Clear, 36, of Bondi says his iPhone exploded, causing him serious burns, after he fell off his bike on the weekend.

iPhone 'explodes', leaves cyclist with burns

Melanie Kembrey, Lucy Cormack

One of the many popular anti-Niantic images that is circulating now.

Why Pokemon GO's biggest fans are turning against it

COMMENT
Patricia Hernandez

NBN chief executive Bill Morrow.

Why Australia needs an NBN education

COMMENT
Andrew Colley

Intersecting Pokestops (left) have all been removed in the game's latest update.

All Pokestops removed from overwhelmed park

Kathryn Wicks

Flyin' Miata has engineered a V8 conversion for the new Mazda MX-5.

Meet the V8 powered MX-5

David McCowen

2016 Ford EcoSport Shadow.

New Ford EcoSport Shadow revealed

Dom Tripolone

2017 Honda NSX.

New Honda NSX price revealed

Sam Charlwood

BMW is set to go racing with a GT4 version of its M4 coupe.

BMW to introduce M4 GT4 racer

David McCowen

2016 Mini Ray.

Mini reveals cheapest model

Dom Tripolone

New Fiat Chrysler Australia boss Steve Zanlunghi

New boss appointed at Fiat Chrysler Australia

Andrew MacLean

These guys will likely be back in action for Sunday - but their battle might just be a sideshow.

Five reasons to actually watch the least anticipated Western Derby

Brad Hardie

A tattooed Dane Swan picture with the apparently topless woman.

Collingwood's Swan attracts attention with saucy snap

Baldock gets some love from the locals after the milestone goal.

The man with more goals in 2016 than the entire Dockers team

David Prestipino

The return of ruckman Nic Naitanui couldn't come sooner for West Coast after a disappointing loss to Collingwood.

Can Nic Naitanui propel West Coast in to the top four?

Kim Hagdorn

Suspended: Zac Dawson.

Docker Dawson accepts three-week AFL layoff

Robert DiPierdomenico.

Dipper's shock Cousins tweet

Brendan Foster

Richmond players contemplate another loss.

Why the Tigers are struggling

Emma Quayle

The Hawks celebrate a hard-fought win.

Four games that decide the top 8