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The Government agrees to scrap its plan to tax 95 per cent of backpackers' superannuation to reach a deal with the Greens to pass the backpacker tax at 15 per cent. Follow live.
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Persistent lead contamination in the water supply at the new $1.2-billion Perth Children's Hospital is continuing to frustrate efforts to complete the building.
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A man loses fingers and a woman suffers serious stab wounds during an altercation in the Western Australian port city of Geraldton overnight, while a teenager is found with a stab wound to his stomach outside a kebab shop in Fremantle.
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A man who attacked two homeless men, killing one, "to satisfy a thrill" told police he believed he was putting his victims "out of their misery because they were suffering", a Perth court hears.
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Protesters who forced a suspension of yesterday's Question Time again breach security at Parliament House, abseiling down the front of the building to unfurl a banner reading "Close the bloody camps now #justice4refugees".
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The craze of bottle flipping has been labelled noisy, annoying and addictive, but while some schools are banning the pastime, one is turning it into a competitive sport to teach students about probability.
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A six-year-old female giraffe named Kitoto arrives in Perth after leaving Sydney for a gruelling 4,200-kilometre journey across the Nullarbor.
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The pilot of a chartered plane carrying a Brazilian soccer team told air traffic controllers he had run out of fuel before crashing into the Andes, according to a leaked recording of the final minutes of the doomed flight.
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A 65-year-old man who was bitten by a great white shark while he was surfing on New South Wales' Mid North Coast is "quite happy" and in stable condition.
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Golf to tennis ball-sized hail hits the Sunshine Coast hinterland as "very dangerous" thunderstorms make their way across south-east Queensland, the Bureau of Meteorology says, with a weather warning out for destructive wind and heavy rainfall which may lead to flash flooding.
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Former Labor candidate for the federal seat of Fremantle Chris Brown takes his case to the Equal Opportunity Commission.
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Capital city home prices continue to rise in November, but the increase is driven by detached houses with apartment values falling according to a key private index.
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Australian Federal Police join forces with the Make-A-Wish foundation to grant an unusual request from a 12-year-old cancer patient, organising a day at a training village so he can "blow stuff up".
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The creator of the Big Mac, Jim Delligatti, dies age 98, almost 50 years since the world's most well-known burger was introduced.
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Experts are warning people to be careful of heatwaves, saying they are a natural disaster responsible for killing the largest number of people in Australia.
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Cyber crime victims are hiring professional hackers and private investigators to get to the bottom of online scams that authorities refuse to touch.
