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Former Murdoch Uni vice-chancellor Richard Higgott used a work laptop to access pornography almost 500 times, did not follow university protocol when giving one friend a job and then lied to the institution's chancellor in appointing another, WA's Corruption and Crime Commission has found.

A 60-year-old woman determined to honour the last dying wish of her daughter and use her daughter's frozen eggs to give birth to her own grandchild won a crucial legal victory on Thursday in the second-highest court in Britain.

In news bound to delight its many fans, a release date for Wreck-It Ralph 2 was announced Friday morning during a Facebook live video.

"I don't want to live with people I am afraid of. I want housing where I can feel safe, be in control and choose my supports. I want to feel like I belong in the community, not live in a place that's like a mini-institution."

If the popular vote splits 50-50 between the major the parties, as the latest Fairfax-Ipsos poll suggests it might, Nick Xenophon could decide who the next prime minister will be.

"Why would I go in the VIP room and sip champagne when I can do that anywhere in the world?" Johannesson said, smiling. "No, I will be in the stands with the fans and I will wear my Iceland shirt. And with respect to the French team - it should not underestimate us."

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"This is not crazy stuff - it's a moment to take note of. Even the fact, honestly, that two women are among the two leading candidates [in the US and Britain] - that it could even possibly happen - is in and of itself historic. It's really extraordinary."

"Sally is a pretty blonde, she speaks well, so she is the perfect 60 Minutes Australia person," explains a former producer.

"If she were a fat, overweight mother from the western suburbs, it would have been different."

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A very happy birthday to Perth's Red Bull Racing ace Daniel Ricciardo, who got this really neat present from the Australian Grand Prix on the occasion of his 27th birthday.

"Members of the public are entitled to resort to a hospital, particularly children, without the fear that they're, in effect, going to be the subject of sexual assaults by hospital employees," the judge said in sentencing Shaun David Fairfield.

The West Australian - thewest.com.au's editor-in-chief told staff that the publication's business model was broken and urgently needed fixing - two months before this week's news of a fresh round of redundancies at the state's daily paper.

The Antarctic ozone "hole" - which, when it was first identified in the mid-1980s, focused public attention like few other pieces of environmental news - has begun, in their words, finally to heal.

Western Australia Police have released CCTV footage an unsolved crime earlier this month, in which thieves rammed a stolen ute into the front of a Narrogin supermarket then set fire to it.

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Global car giant Nissan will terminate its sponsorship deal with The AFL Footy Show at the end of the 2016 AFL season in the wake of Sam Newman's scathing rebuke of The Age - theage.com.au journalist Caroline Wilson.

Foreign Affairs Minister Julie Bishop MP could get off scot free for using her mobile phone while driving in Perth on Thursday, after Western Australia Police said it needed a member of the public to make an complaint before it could investigate.

Describing the Twitter trolling as "a river of disgusting, sexist and relentless abuse", The 7.30 Report host Leigh Sales shared tweets depicting her and Prime Minister Malcolm Turnbull in bed.

‪#‎BREAKING‬: Police are investigating after a man's body was found floating in the water in Fremantle Harbour on Friday.

Workers at Chevron's Gorgon project on Barrow Island off the Pilbara coast were told to down tools and evacuate because of a gas leak on Friday.