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Portrait of Brian Burston, One Nation NSW Senator elect at his home in Coal Point near Newcastle. 4th August 2016, ...

One Nation senator wants 'patriotic' broadcaster

The banned Essendon players appeal has failed.

Brownlow decision looms as Dons' Swiss appeal fails

UPDATED

Marianka Heumann was working on a Perth construction site when she fell to her death.

Complaints made at East Perth high rise before fatal fall

Heather McNeill

Missing student, Ehab Elmowafy.

'Shy and reserved' Curtin uni student missing for a week

A man has been taken to hospital with severe facial injuries after an altercation between two groups of men in Joondalup.

Police call for witnesses after fight leaves man with facial injuries

Two 'lollipop women' in Secret Harbour have walked off the job.

Lollipop ladies walk off the job over abuse

What's with the smoke clouding the blue skies of Perth?

Perth bakery fined for having unclean and pest-infected premises

Perth kids banned from driveway netball over strata breach

Ice cream and steak tartare home delivered: UberEATS in Perth

Tostee jury hears final scream of Warriena after fatal Tinder date

Aaron Mooy of the Socceroos

One point each for Socceroos and Japan after key World Cup clash

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Police are continuing their inquiries.

Perth crow reveals meth stash

Sara and Phillip Maria's wedding day had a few uninvited guests...

Swooping magpies photobomb couple's wedding day

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

West Coast Eagles declare Jack will stay their Darling

The groom in emergency with his moon boot.

Perth groom breaks foot, carries bride into wrong hotel room

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The other benefits to dog walking

Phoebe Handsjuk with Antony Hampel. Picture supplied by Richard Baker

Phoebe's death: The society boyfriend and the secret tape

Unlucky in love? This is why you're single

Saudi teen flirts online with a young woman in ...

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Sweetheart deals: Catholic schools benefit from ...

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Curtin University student missing for a week ...

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Professor Barry Marshall and Dr Robin Warren.

WA's globetrotting Nobel Prize legacy could save world $1.6b plus

Maddison Simmonds

Enough clowning: first 'victim', arrest from Perth clown surge

Hannah Barry

Garden City Memory Cafe offers safe haven for dementia sufferers

Maddison Simmonds

If the sky were red instead of blue, this stromatolite landscape could be a picture of Earth billions of years ago.

WA's window to early Earth could provide clue to interplanetary life

Emma Young

The man was found to have an amount of amphetamine in his possession.

Police chase ends in power pole collision in Mount Hawthorn

Hannah Barry

Curious koi photo-bombs little Lior at St John of God Hospital in Bunbury.

Fish photo-bombs two-year-old at Bunbury hospital

Adrian Beattie

WA's biggest-ever burlesque show is set for UWA.

Naughty but nice, WA's biggest-ever burlesque show set for UWA

Adrian Beattie

Marianka Heumann was working on a Perth construction site when she fell to her death.

'Worst thing ever': Co-worker tells of woman's fatal fall

EXCLUSIVE

Alan Jones reportedly dined with Mike Baird on Monday night before the ban reversal is set to be confirmed.

Premier's dinner with Jones before greyhound backflip

NSW

The iTunes gift card backings kept by the Canberra woman defrauded by a telephone scammer.

Scamwatch: Beware the iTunes giftcard con job

ACT

Sophie went missing for 24 hours.

In a cynical world, a shaggy-dog story restores my faith

COMMENT

Republican presidential candidate Donald Trump speaks during a campaign rally, Monday, Oct. 10, 2016, in Ambridge, Penn. ...

An 89-year-old grandmother gives Trump sage advice

Jenna Johnson

Donald Trump and Mark Burnett, pictured here in 2008.

Claims Trump 'used the N-word' as pressure grows to release tapes

Pulling faces: Donald Trump during the second presidential debate.

'Deepest crisis since Watergate': Savage blow for Trump's campaign

Paul McGeough

Prime Minister Malcolm Turnbull addresses the media during a press conference at Parliament House.

Same-sex marriage denied and everyone shares the blame

ANALYSIS
Mark Kenny

Same-sex marriage plebiscite dead after Labor vote

Michael Koziol

New One Nation senator wants 'patriotic broadcasting corporation'

Tom McIlroy

Paul McClintock says there is no believable end to the deficit in sight.

Business group lashes PM over deficit, tax scare campaign

Prime Minister Malcolm Turnbull accuses Labor of immaturity and unreadiness over its stance on the South China Sea problem.

PM slams Labor call to challenge China's artificial islands

"The dark cloud hanging over the CFA has finally been lifted": Employment Minister Michaelia Cash.

'Dark cloud lifted': Country Fire Authority legislation passes

BP has dumped plans to drill in the Great Australian Bight.

BP dumps plans to drill for oil in the Great Australian Bight

Thiolina Marpaung walks through the Sari Club site, now a makeshift carpark.

Fight for peace park continues 14 years after Bali bombings

Police detain a man at Pavao Pavaozinho slum on Monday.

Rio shoot-outs, school closures as crime wave worsens

Paulo Prada

Michael Gorbachev, the last leader of the Soviet Union, at his foundation in Moscow, in May.

War talk is back on Russian TV

A young man in Saudi Arabia known as Abu Sin and Christina Crockett, a young American.

Saudi teen flirts online with a young US woman - and ends up in jail

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Gina Rinehart has made an offer for the Kidman cattle station empire, along with Chinese investors.

Mining mogul Gina Rinehart has a valuable lesson for Australia

COMMENT
Hannah Bretherton

These young women are calling out everyday sexism and sexist attitudes. They expect the right to live free from ...

'If only I were a man - it would be so much easier to get my dream job'

COMMENT
Mary Barry

"Trump wasn't being crude for a cause. He was just being himself."

Lecherous Trump presents an even bigger target

COMMENT
Nicole Hemmer

So-called "car yard" life insurance products paid out a meagre $6 million in claims, or 6.6 per cent of the $90 ...

The time has come for life insurers to get with the times

COMMENT
Adele Ferguson
57 mins ago

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Insurers can longer spy on you in the loo

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Sarah Danckert

The Foscari development site at Truganina in Wyndham.

Truganina site sold as scam victims seek investments

38 mins ago

Hills has stuck a $6 million deal to terminate its licensing agreement with Woolworths and its failed Masters hardware chain.

Woolworths hangs Hills out to dry after $6 million payment

1 hr ago

7-Eleven closes stores in wake of wages scandal

Odd couple equities and bonds separate

Abacus Property Group forms $200m partnership

Consumer groups slam new life insurance code

So simple, yet so effective.

This contraption could solve all your problems in the bedroom

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An expert renovator on how to design the perfect laundry

The bank of mum and dad - now Australia's fastest growing mortgage lender.

Bank of Mum and Dad Australia's fastest-growing lenders

The auction crowd: Two per cent committed bidders, five per cent possible bidders, and 93 per cent sticky-beak neighbours.

The truth about the people you see at every auction

When land costs more than finished homes, you're in dangerous territory, says Deutsche.

Fears China property bubble could cost banks $800 billion

Banksy's former manager and friend Steve Lazarides has brought an unauthorised exhibition to Melbourne.

Who is Banksy? 'He's a miserable, scabby little git'

Arts

There's more to weight loss than losing weight.

21 truths we don't want to hear about losing weight

Boot Camp

Jockey Michelle Payne after winning the Melbourne Cup.

The odds on a Melbourne Cup day interest rate change

ANALYSIS
Jessica Irvine

Inappropriate incentives are at the heart of the banks' cultural problems. Illustration: Kerrie Leishman

Motley Fool: The elephant in the bank inquiry room

Scott Phillips

Rory Kennard, founder of Makinex.

This Australian company has a very rare goal

Alexandra Cain

Trent Innes, Xero Australia MD says we need more small businesses.

The surprising truth about starting a business today

Trent Innes

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John Oliver blasts Trump and Billy Bush

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Remains of 23 people unearthed in Peru

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Australian, Briton arrested in Bali for drug possession

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Trailer: Jackie

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Rebecca Ferguson and Justin Theroux as Anna and Tom Watson in The Girl on the Train.

The Girl on the Train: Let's discuss that ending

COMMENT
Emily Yahr

A long way from the City: Sarah Jessica Parker and Thomas Haden Church in <i>Divorce</I>.

Sarah Jessica Parker's 'Divorce' is no Sex and the City

Michael Idato

Silvia's Italian Table: Silvia Colloca, centre, serves up dinner to celebrity guests like Kathy Lette, from left, Tom ...

Razer takes knife to ABC cooking show over 'fatuous property porn'

Andrew Hornery

Solange Knowles

Solange Knowles steps out of Beyonce's shadow

COMMENT
Bernard Zuel

The tape includes audio of Billy Bush and DonaldTrump having a conversation inside the bus, as well as audio and video ...

Billy Bush could be sacked from Today as fallout deepens

Michael Idato

<i>Fraggle Rock</i> and its colourful characters are heading back to the screen.

Jim Henson's world of Fraggle Rock is set to return to TV

Huy Truong: "Our version of the Trump Mexican wall".

Q&A recap: Shock value high as panel debate immigration

ANALYSIS
Neil McMahon

Ratings for the second debate fell sharply.

TV ratings fall for bitter Clinton-Trump presidential debate

Michael Idato

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

Protest in France.

Imagine if Australian women went on strike

Clementine Ford

Bec Judd's followers dismayed by her skinny jeans post 11 days after giving birth to her twins boys.

Bec Judd's followers dismayed by post 11 days after giving birth

Amy Croffey

Peta Credlin hasn't abandoned Canberra life forever, she attended this year's Midwinter Ball at Parliament House.

Peta Credlin calls out 'gutless wonders' in Canberra

Jenna Clarke

"I want all governments to be scared of women," says Marta Lempart, Polish women's rights campaigner and lead of its ...

How the women of Poland pulled off a nationwide protest

Daisy Dumas

Kim has never really cared about her detractors.

Kim Kardashian dares to reflect the male gaze

Natalie Reilly

Prior to donning this outfit, Melania Trump said her husband's lewd comments about women were "unacceptable and offensive".

Melania Trump's silent rebellion at the second debate

Jenna Clarke

Donald Trump and Hillary Clinton.

An otherwise bitter debate actually ended with kindness

Colby Itkowitz

"I remember the shame:" Actor Amber Tamblyn shares story of sexual assault after Trump tape.

'I was grabbed under my skirt': Actress shares sexual assault

Elahe Izadi

The rules of water? There's only one.

Don't drink eight glasses of water a day - do this instead

Sarah Berry

Fibromyalgia: "It's soul-destroying because so little is known about it". Photo: iStock

The soothing sip that saved me from a life of agony

Charlotte Lytton

Fit to fight? Hillary Clinton and Donald Trump.

How Donald and Hillary fuel themselves to fight each other

Three Blue Ducks chefs at Rosebery.

The Three Blue Ducks' guide to barbecuing like a legend

Myffy Rigby

Look for protein and fibre for the longest-lasting sense of satisfaction.

A nutritionist rates your favourite packaged snacks

Bonnie Sutherland

The Katering Show will get a free to air debut on the ABC next year.

The Katering Show answers your cooking questions

KATE MCCARTNEY AND KATE MCLENNAN

People wearing clown outfits have been terrorising residents in America.

Creepy clown 'scares woman into premature labour'

Cat Rodie

Paul Van Der Toorren proposed to his girlfriend of seven years, Elysia Simons, at Uluru, the place they first met as ...

Wedding bells for pair who met as children, filming iconic Qantas ad

Suzi Catchpole

Gabi Shull was determined to dance on pointe again.

Teen defies odds to become ballet dancer after leg amputation

Adella Beaini

The plane's dining room and bar.

Inside the world's most luxurious passenger plane

Kylie McLaughlin

The epic, 9289 kilometre-long Trans-Siberian railway is now 100 years old.

The world's longest railway line, 9289 km, is now 100 years old

Don't waste your time and money on a bad tour.

Worst. Tour guide. Ever. When that 'bargain' isn't one at all

Ben Groundwater

The ill-fated Galaxy Note7 is no longer being made, and Samsung has asked that it is no longer sold.

'Power down': It's all over for the Note7

Tim Biggs

Sony Xperia XZ gets Aussie launch details

Tim Biggs

Gears of War 4 review

Gears of War 4 review: the original and still the best

Tim Biggs

The web is rife with annoyances.

Browser extensions to make web less annoying

Alan Henry

A US plane was evacuated last week after a phone caught fire.

Three new Note7s catch fire in one week

Tim Biggs

Ford has paused Mustang production in the wake of reduced demand in the US.

Ford shuts Mustang factory

2017 Kia Soul.

Kia cuts Soul price

Dom Tripolone

The BMW M3 Competition.

BMW M3 Competition reviewed

Andrew MacLean

Spy shots of the Opel Insignia testing in Europe.

Commodore may get drift mode

Stephen Ottley

Volkswagen Scirocco.

Last VW Sciroccos to go on sale

Dom Tripolone

2016 HSV Clubsport R8 Track Edition.

HSV Clubsport Track Edition review

Mark Short

Combatants on the NRL field, Cooper Cronk and Johnathan Thurston are united in their view Perth needs a team in the ...

Thurston and Cronk say Perth is ready for an NRL team

Bryce Gibbs.

AFL trade period 2016: live coverage, day two

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Claire Siracusa

Nick Kyrgios with his third tour trophy of the year in Japan.

The secret behind the rise of Nick Kyrgios

Linda Pearce

The former world no.1 says he is not out of the woods yet.

Woods says he's not ready to take on world's best

The Freeview app will offer "live-streaming from all the free-to-air networks" and feature at least 15 of the 25 ...

Free-to-air networks unite to put live TV in your pocket

Lucy Battersby

Bryce Gibbs is looking for an out after more than 200 games with Carlton.

Blues hold out hope they can keep Bryce Gibbs

Michael Gleeson

North Melbourne midfielder Daniel Wells is bound for Collingwood.

Wells heading to Collingwood as a free agent

Sam McClure

"A little guilty": Curtis Luck.

Perth golfer denies good mate a Masters spot

Adam Pengilly