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Severe weather is set to hit Perth and the South West.

Storms for Perth as South West braces for severe weather

1 hr ago

Sinister clowns which have been popping up around the US are now apparently making appearances in Mandurah...and Perth ...

Scary clown sightings start in Mandurah, Perth next...

Baby Z died suddenly at Bandyup Women's Prison in 2011.

WA coroner: no blame for baby's death in prison

Nic Naitanui modelling West Coast's gold jumper.

'Bought in Bali?' New Eagles clash jumper not gold for many fans

Both the dugite and tiger snake are venomous and potentially fatal to humans.

'Mouth full': dugite eats tiger snake whole near Capel

The Royal Flying Doctors Service has airlifted victims of Friday's incident in Kowanyama to larger medical centres.

Woman dies after vehicle crashes into funeral

QLD

Perth hospital tries to recoup $130k in missed parking fees from staff

'No skeletons': WA mayor defends Perth underworld links

Perth real estate agent quits over 'get the f--k out' fireworks rant

Bunbury siege accused faces further mental assessment before plea

Man, 69, dies after falling off yacht in WA's Pilbara region

"When are you going to stop for me,"

Light's green: Perth driver on phone totally ignores cop pulling her over

Finland has been named the safest country. Pictured, Helsinki.

World's safest countries: the results will surprise you

Actor Ross Higgins as Ted Bullpitt in 1980s sitcom 'Kingswood Country'

Kingswood Country actor Ross Higgins dies

1 hr ago

Eamon Sullivan was less than impressed after the bathroom decorations disappeared.

Eamon Sullivan flushes out thief after bizarre dunny robbery

Dave captured the woman staring intently at the catalogue as she crossed the Narrows Bridge.

Driver reads mag from Canning Bridge to the Narrows

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How NOT to pull over for police

Unlucky in love? This is why you're single

There comes a time in every busy pet owner's life when conflicting obligations lead you to entrust your beloved fur ball ...

'Sorry, I lost your dog' and other petsitting disasters

Wind, rain and thunderstorms for Perth, severe ...

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Brandis flags exemptions for civil celebrants, ...

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Donald Trump and his long list of failings in ...

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Why playing dirty won't pay off for the Block contestants'

The hilariously frank Gumtree ad has drawn a flood of responses.

Hilarious Gumtree ad offers 'financial black hole for rent' in Medina

The perks of a green roof.

Why you should consider a green roof

Pankaj and Radhika Oswal were seeking $2.5 billion.

Taj-on-Swan sell-off may net Oswals $30 million

Emotions can run high at auctions and push prices up beyond expectation.

The true winner at auction: Who benefits under the hammer?

Esky + picnic table + barrels + outboard engine = summer fun.

The floating picnic table to make waves in Perth this summer

David Allan-Petale

Girl, 11, charged over $200,000 arson attack in WA's Mid West

Meth enters classrooms at schools in the South West

Greta Andrews-Taylor

Roger Federer would gasp at the booking fees charged for his match.

Sky-high Hopman Cup booking fees due to 'scalper resale sites'

Brendan Foster

Bomb squad has been called out to a possible explosive device in Tapping.

Bomb squad called out to possible 'explosive device' north of Perth

Brendan Foster

Demolition works have begun on the infamous Perth eyesore.

The bitter end for one of Perth's biggest eyesores

Alexandra Spangaro

Rod Culleton, Senate candidate for WA.

One Nation Senator Rod Culleton in rambling attack on judiciary

The Royal Flying Doctors Service has airlifted victims of Friday's incident in Kowanyama to larger medical centres.

Woman dies after car crashes into funeral

Jorge Branco

The collapse of transmission lines led to the shutdown of SA's entire power network.

What's really going wrong with electricity

COMMENT

Workplace anti-bullying efforts are failing to protect state and federal public servants.

'People like you': public servant wins e-bullying case

ACT

Roger Federer would gasp at the booking fees charged for his match.

Scalper sites scam sport fans with sky high booking fees

Republican vice presidential candidate, Mike Pence.

Running mate backtracks on Trump's proposal to ban Muslims

Republican presidential candidate Donald Trump speaks at a town hall-style forum, Thursday, Oct. 6, 2016, in Sandown, ...

US election 2016: Trump tells terminally ill to 'get out and vote'

Megyn Kelly

Breach of decorum: Fox News presenters fight over Trump

Slammed by the United Nations: the detention centre on Nauru.

UN slams Australia's regional processing centres in Nauru

Michael Koziol

Australia's great shame is the result of policy failure, not silence

COMMENT
Michael Gordon
1 hr ago

Navy should be authorised for freedom of navigation in South China Sea: Marles

EXCLUSIVE
James Massola

Former PM Gough Whitlam and director of the Australian National Gallery James Mollison (left) stand in front of Jackson ...

Selling Blue Poles, a shameful abrogation of Australia's cultural history

COMMENT
Mark Kenny

SYDNEY, AUSTRALIA - OCTOBER 05: Prime Minister Malcolm Turnbull meets with vocational training and employment ...

Turnbull in sixth attempt to fend off royal commission

Tom McIlroy and Clancy Yeates

Attorney-General George Brandis is embroiled in a matter so esoteric we can't afford the legal advice to explain it here.

Same-sex marriage plebiscite advice intensified Brandis row

EXCLUSIVE
Michaela Whitbourn

David Coleman Chair of the House of Representatives Standing Committee on Economics conducting the Review of Australia's ...

Coleman discharges a hopeless task

COMMENT
Amy Remeikis

Dutch King Willem-Alexander and Queen Maxima leave after their inauguration ceremony in Amsterdam in 2013.

A 'spicy question' for Dutch King Willem-Alexander

Nick Miller

Hurricane Matthew tracking north.

Hurricane Matthew: East coast braces as deadly storm lashes Florida

Portugal's Antonio Guterres, the next United Nations Secretary General accepts his nomination on Thursday.

It's a man's world, united or not

Daniel Flitton

The face of Adolf Hitler is projected onto a 3D canvas as part of an art installation during a rehearsal for the 'Berlin ...

Hitler was true author 1923 book hailing him, author says

"Successive governments have waged war on the roughly 60 per cent of Australian families who entrust their children to a ...

At last, we've exposed the lie about our state schools

COMMENT
Julie Szego

Darling has had a tendency to go missing in big games.

West Coast should trade Jack Darling to secure a midfield young gun

COMMENT
Brendan Foster

Bill Clinton's 1992 campaign was the first to propose putting the candidates in a town-hall setting for one of the debates.

Why Trump's attack on Clinton's marriage will rebound on him

COMMENT
Jenna Price

Former Dick Smith CEO Nick Abboud leaving the Supreme Court.

Dick Smith boss saw opportunities, others saw issues

ANALYSIS
Elizabeth Knight
48 mins ago

Melbourne, Australia - Auguest 28, 2015: Sign of Australia Post outside its office in Bourke Street, Melbourne

Australia Post gets books in order, privatisation feared

EXCLUSIVE

Concerns of a Brexit 'hard landing' have kept financial markets occupied.

Energy buoyed, gold hammered, ASX up

SYDNEY, AUSTRALIA - AUGUST 18: Laboratory manager Marina Tretiach sold her house recently through an online marketplace ...

First home buyer numbers don't add up

COMMENT
Michael Pascoe

'Critical' public warning over Aussie online fashion store

'Sad day for Australia': Ford is officially finished

British pound plunges 6pc in 'flash crash'

Bank inquiry was like speed dating gone bad

COMMENT
Elizabeth Knight

"Wild young men can't be expected to act like saints when they're worshipped as gods."

Aaron Smith's tryst isn't excusable, but it's understandable

Life On Mars

Zac and Jordan Stenmark in new perfume commercial they created for Giorgio Armani

Under the influence: 19 men ruling Australian fashion right now

Men's Style

Financial literacy is useless unless you can separate fact from fiction.

Financial literacy won't help if you don't get your facts straight

Noel Whittaker

NAB chief executive Andrew Thorburn at the parliamentary bank inquiry last week.

What the banking inquiry means for shareholders

Scott Phillips

Dan Kurzius, founder of MailChimp.

This company bucked all the start-up cliches and still succeeded

Farhad Manjoo

SYDNEY, AUSTRALIA - DECEMBER 14: Oprah Winfrey revs up the audience on the set during the first taping of the "Oprah ...

Five ways your body language harms your career

James Adonis

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Duterte to human rights groups: 'Go to hell'

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Hurricane Matthew: Florida braces for a hit

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Air New Zealand's new ad campaign targets long-haul passengers

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The US electoral college - explained with M&Ms;

Sydney Dance Company artistic director Rafael Bonachela.

Fairfax photos of the week - October 6, 2016

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Banksy, or someone claiming to be him, in a scene from the documentary Exit Through the Gift Shop.

Will the real Banksy please stand up?

Karl Quinn

Brad Pitt and Marion Cotillard star in the upcoming film <i>Allied</i>.

Could this be the film that broke Brangelina?

Karl Quinn

Mick Jagger, Charlie Watts, Keith Richards and Ronnie Wood.

Stones go back to basics with first studio album in a decade

Todd Sampson in <i>BodyHack</i>.

The simple pleasure of seeing Todd Sampson suffer - a lot

Karl Quinn

Officials told the Associated Press that the armed assailants, who are still at large, tied Kardashian up and locked her ...

Is this the end of Keeping Up with the Kardashians?

Ebony Bowden

White people are cross at Netflix for its supposed lack of 'racial diversity' in <i>Luke Cage</i>

Quit whining, white folk. How can all-black show be racist?

COMMENT
Michael Lallo

Lady Gaga at the Maxwell Spring/Summer 2017 collection at The Russian Tea Room in New York, where she showcased songs ...

Lady Gaga launches new album with a dive bar tour

Kerrie O'Brien

Flight Facilities may not look like classical musicians but the ARIA for classical album of the year is now in their hands.

Flight Facilities' "classical" ARIA Award prompts outcry

Bernard Zuel

Lisa Scaffidi has told ABC Radio she won't accept interviews from its competitor.

Mute: Lord Mayor Lisa Scaffidi 'refuses' to speak to Radio 6PR

Heather McNeill

Lindi Ortega is coming to Perth as part of the Comes A Time festival at The Rosemount.

Robert Ellis, Lindi Ortega headline Comes A Time at Rosemount

David Prestipino

Mooney's always has a line of construction workers waiting for their breakfast.

Move over smashed avo ... Perth's best filthy, fatty fry-ups unveiled

Liz Sheehan

Top look: Dior's T-shirts quoted author Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie.

Dior encourages feminism ... with a $700 t-shirt

Jenna Clarke

Happy family.

Happy kids, great life: How do some people have it all?

COMMENT
Dom Knight

Nazi Paikidze.

Hijab protest: Chess star refuses to attend championships in Iran

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A one-size-fits-all approach is careless, writes Giselle Au-Nhien Nguyen.

It's time to admit we need better forms of contraception

Giselle Au-Nhien Nguyen

Kylie Minogue and fiance Joshua Sasse.

Kylie Minogue puts support behind same-sex marriage

Georgia Love with some of her potential suitors.

What The Bachelorette exposes about our dating culture

COMMENT
Kasey Edwards

Chrissy Teigen campaigning for Hillary Clinton.

Chrissy Teigen 'not strong enough' for Twitter anymore

Breathing: the part you can control.

The breathing trick that can make you more productive

Seth Porges

Do cold baths help? It depends.

Cold baths: helping or hindering your performance?

Sarah Berry

Ellie Goulding works out at Nike Sydney this week.

'I wanted to run like Forrest Gump': Ellie Goulding

Margherita matching at Ombra.

Which wines to drink with pizza

Michael Austin

Neil Perry's passionfruit creme brulee recipe.

Add a splash of passion to your next dessert effort

Neil Perry

Chicken stir-fried in XO sauce.

27 speedy stir-fry recipes

Some of the BOnds x Disney pieces.

Why are people going bonkers for Bonds ... again?

Jo Hartley

Issac in his outfit.

'I am fuming': mum explodes after delivery driver's comment

Cat Rodie

A doctor in the making?

Daughter's hilarious yet blunt get well card for dad

Ariane Beeston

Finland has been named the safest country. Pictured, Helsinki.

World's safest countries: the results will surprise you

Oliver Smith

Two American Samoans have filed complaints over claims they were weighed by Hawaiian Airlines before they boarded their ...

Weighed on a plane: Complaints as airline targets obese passengers

Oliver Smith

Just because we're laughing doesn't mean everyone else is: The 'Budgie 9' at the Malaysian Grand Prix.

The reasons why Aussies behave so badly overseas

Ben Groundwater

Sony's MDR-1000X Bluetooth wireless headphones raise the stakes when it comes to noise-cancelling.

Sony cans' next level noise cancelling

COMMENT
Adam Turner

The Rift headset from Facebook's Oculus.

Facebook, Google chase wireless VR experiences

Joshua Brustein

Dag Kittlaus and his team previously built Siri, which was acquired by Apple in 2010.

Samsung buys AI firm founded by Siri creators

Elizabeth Dwoskin

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The best video game control pads

Kotaku

Pixel is filled with all sorts of custom tweaks not found in the standard version of Android.

Why Google's Pixel is the anti-iPhone

COMMENT
Tim Biggs

Dick Johnson with the 2016 Ford Falcon Sprint.

Driving the last Falcon with Dick

David McCowen

2016 Ford Focus RS.

Is this the world's best hot hatch?

Stephen Ottley

The last Australian-made Ford Falcon rolls off the production line.

The final Ford Falcon

Stephen Ottley

Holden built over 100,000 Cruze in Australia between 2011-16.

Holden Cruze production ends

Stephen Ottley

Ford Australia's Broadmeadows plant.

Could Ford have been saved?

Andrew MacLean

2017 BMW i3 94Ah.

Driven: BMW's updated i3 electric car

David Morley

Premiership Bulldog Tom Boyd.

Pub fight with Cordy a 'turning point' for Boyd

Apologetic: Tom Rockliff of the Lions

Brisbane Lions seething after latest Rockliff indiscretion

Sam McClure

Luke Shuey has claimed his first John Worsfold Medal.

Shuey wins John Worsfold Medal as Eagles' best-and-fairest

Simon White

Ricciardo takes his first Formula One race trophy in Malaysia.

Ricciardo cops pre-race sledge from Red Bull teammate

Austin Waugh celebrates his ton.

Steve Waugh's son Austin scores ton in cricket final

The Jeddah draw leaves Australia undefeated on top of Group B, but only by goal difference.

Socceroos, Saudis fight out thrilling draw

New Brisbane Lions coach Chris Fagan is delighted the club has secured a priority pick in the AFL draft.

Lions handed end-of-first-round priority pick

Sam McClure

Dale Morris and Tom Boyd of the Bulldogs celebrate with the trophy.

Nature called and nearly spoiled Bulldog's party

Ronny Lerner