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Impressive running back Griffin Logue.

Fremantle re-signs top draft pick after just two weeks

Canberra's Maisy Ellis was lucky enough to receive a Hatchimal for her seventh birthday two weeks ago.

Online scrooge's selling 'must have' Hatchimals for huge mark ups

The couple barely escaped with their lives.

Perth woman tried to 'drug couple' and torch their Ballajura home

Workers in regional WA are paying up to $2500 to fly home for Christmas.

$2,500 return: Calls for inquiry into cost of FIFO Xmas flights

Simon Mackin took an 11-wicket haul.

Western Warriors break losing streak with 8-wicket WACA win

CCTV shows the woman carrying the puppy after her and an accomplice entered the pet shop.

'Puppy-napper' returns dog to Morley pet store after police hunt

New fixed camera on Graham Farmer Freeway angers drivers

All in a day's work: The police 'ride along' that I never expected to see

COMMENT

Ben Cousins fined, released from custody over VRO breach

Freo 'banned' from holding citizenship ceremonies on Jan 28

Iron ore price surges 3.2 per cent overnight in two year high

Harley Bennell is yet to play a home and away match for the Dockers.

Dockers star recruit Harley Bennell's car impounded by police: reports

Rosberg's successor will drive a car like this one.

Want to become a formula one driver? Check the job ads

Stuck is a new app for roadside assistance.

New app launched in WA claims to be the Uber of roadside assistance

The towers will be sunk somewhere between Rottnest and Garden Island.

'Fish towers' to be sunk off Perth to help bring bumper catches

Josh Thomas in last night's emotional Please Like Me.

Thomas tears up as fans praise 'devastatingly raw' Please Like Me

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Indonesian earthquake: nearly 100 dead

The Currambine Bar & Bistro is one of eight finalists competing to be named Radio 6PR Pub of the Year.

Perth's top 8 watering holes in Radio 6PR's Pub of the Year

Every ex's dream: Bella Hadid bumping into her ex The Weeknd on the Victoria's Secret runway in Paris on Wednesday.

Kendall and Gigi take to the Victoria's Secret runway in Paris

Online propaganda and hacking pose fundamental ...

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'There is a silent extinction going on': Giraffe ...

11:08PM

Sandy Hook denier charged with threatening parent ...

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Jamie Murphy and his father Brendan arrive at Denpasar International Airport.

'Jamie won't go to the media': Friends help pay legal fees

Ben Cousins bail delayed for court to hear ex-partner's story

Heather McNeill

Roadhouse bungle could curb controversial speed camera trial

Damien Mills claims an award for mortgage broking just months before he drowned off Leighton Beach on Friday

Fremantle charter boat company on trial over fatal cruise

Fireworks

Elder pans Barnett's 'redneck' comments on Australia Day saga

Emma Young

Funding furore: The Turnbull government has decided the areas on the map in pink, including Mandurah and the Peel ...

Funding furore as government claims Peel part of Perth

Nathan Hondros

Fisheries said the boat's owner was interfering with other fishers' lobster pots.

WA fisheries seize expensive boat over lobster pot mischief

David Allan-Petale

Mike Baird talks about the lockout law changes at Parramatta this morning.

Lockout, last drinks laws relaxed after review

NSW

Fencing is erected on Northbourne Avenue as Capital Metro undergoes earthworks for the light rail project.

Light rail worker thrown 2 metres by electric shock

ACT

There has been a renewed push for domestic violence leave to be available for women across Australia.

Premier calls for national push on violence leave

QLD

Assistant Minister for Immigration Alex Hawke says Fremantle council cannot hold its citizenship ceremonies "under any ...

Council slapped with citizenship ceremonies ban

Prime Minister Malcolm Turnbull has said the Coalition would not implement an emissions trading scheme.

Government killed carbon scheme despite dynamite bill advice

EXCLUSIVE
Adam Morton

There's nothing illegal about Conroy's new job. But it smells bad

COMMENT
Nick O'Malley

The R word: Talk of recession 'alarmist', say Turnbull, Morrison

Tom McIlroy

The funding announcement will deliver some immediate certainty but not the longer term security providers had been ...

PM gives reprieve for family violence, homelessness services

Kristina Photios has quit the Liberal Party over a lack of action on climate change.

Liberal powerbroker's wife quits party over conservatives

EXCLUSIVE

Tom Keneally has been a vocal defender of parallel import restrictions.

Labor to oppose cheaper book imports, backing Australian authors

The Hazelwood power station in Victoria.

In a post-fact world, Turnbull has sided with the wingnut fringe

COMMENT

Alex Younger has warned of the threat of 'hybrid warfare'.

Online propaganda and hacking pose fundamental threat: MI6 chief

Latika Bourke
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Injured people receive treatment outside a hospital in the quake-devastated area.

Grim work at the heart of Aceh's killer earthquake

Jewel Topsfield

Bana al-Abed has become the Anne Frank of the Syrian civil war.

Bana Alabed, from Aleppo, gains sympathy and doubts

Sufia Begum, a Rohingya who recently crossed over to Bangladesh, cries on December 2 as she describes her experiences in ...

'No one there to save us': Rohingyas accuse Myanmar military

Colin Pettit is WA's Commissioner for Children and Young People.

Views of vulnerable children must guide justice policy

COMMENT
Colin Pettit

ABC managing director Michelle Guthrie has plans to reshape the organisation.

Don't like all that change at the ABC? Better get used to it

COMMENT
Karl Quinn

Hefty age gap: Marlon Brando, 48, and Maria Schneider, 19 star in Bernardo Bertolucci's film <em>Last Tango in Paris</em>.

Bertolucci and Brando forever stained by Last Tango butter rape

COMMENT
Karl Quinn

Why would a company need higher standards unless its previous standards were too low?

Woolworths may have acted legally, that doesn't make it right

COMMENT
Michael Pascoe

Tabcorp chief David Attenborough

House prices are too high ... just ask CEOs

Colin Kruger, CBD

US President-elect Donald Trump will struggle to make America great again by shunning migrants.

America will never be 'great again' without migrants

COMMENT
Harold Mitchell

Iron ore prices have surged on thanks in large part to a Chinese policy error.

China oversight sends Aussie miners' skyrocketing

Media experts weigh in on News Corp's APN buyout

Owner of CIMIC fined $400,000 for insider trading

Henry blasts 'truly bad' politicians and our 'fiscal mess'

Rio chief: 'I would love to have more diamonds'

Mulled wine can bring a festive bouquet.

Five ways to get your home smelling like Christmas

Cater to the various age groups' needs and suggest activities but don't worry if they just want to chill out at home.

Hosting holiday guests? 12 things to do before they arrive

The historic Fremantle Prison warders' cottages straddle the entrance to the markets on Henderson Street.

Huge buyer interest in Freo convict-built cottages

'First we tuck our phones in, and then ourself'- Arianna Huffington's wellness startup is selling $US100 phone beds.

New phone bed device set to redefine sleep mode

The cubicle was never a good way to work.

Seven office designs we will be glad to see the back of

Tesla Supercharger stations.

Australia's east coast to become a Tesla Supercharger highway

Cars

There is a class divide in the way society fights drug addiction.

How drug laws are catching up to high-flying professionals

Culture
Liam Pieper

Christmas should be a time of fun not stress.

Seven ways to have a champagne Christmas on a beer budget

There's no Smart Money, there's just competent and different levels of dumb, just like in the Jim Carrey movie Dumb and ...

Dumb and dumber: the truth about the sharemarket

Christo Hall preaches against to-do lists.

Why you can ditch the to-do list

Bhakthi Puvanenthiran

Bursting the bubble on the economy has unintended psychological results.

Surprising outcome of an economic downturn

James Adonis

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2016: Year in review

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AACTAs 2016: Protesters gatecrash red carpet

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Ghana decides in close presidential election

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Ben Cousins appears in court

Michael Leunig

A touch of Leunig humour for Christmas

Good Behaviour

Michelle Dockery as you've never seen her before. Good Behaviour now streaming on Stan.

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Younger Season 3 fast tracked from the U.S. every Thursday.

Understanding your toddler's fine motor skills

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Wander through ancient landscapes in WA

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FILE - This is a Sept. 30, 1972 file photo of the members of the rock band Emerson, Lake and Palmer,Greg Lake, left ...

British prog rock musician Greg Lake dies of cancer

57 mins ago

George Ogilvie, who cast Russell Crowe in his first feature film recalls the crew thought he was 'an arrogant little ...

Russell Crowe was 'an arrogant little pisspot', says director

Peter Munro

Jennifer Aniston makes her ruthless CEO's frustrations appear real.

Office Christmas Party ranks among all-time clumsy comedies

Jake Wilson

Josh Thomas in last night's emotional Please Like Me.

Thomas tears up as fans praise 'devastatingly raw' Please Like Me

Rob Moran

Mel Gibson twice asked Sunrise's Edwina Bartholomew who she was.

'Who are you?': Sunrise star's awkward run-in with Mel

Ebony Bowden

Johnny Depp, pictured on February 20, 2016, previously had a tattoo of the word "SLIM", a nickname for Heard on his ...

Will Hollywood finally stop hiring Johnny Depp?

COMMENT
Rob Moran

Daryl Somers' new show, <i>You're Back in the Room</i>.

Here it is: The best - and worst - TV of the year

Melinda Houston

Stephen Fry stepped down in February after 13 years of hosting BBC quiz show <i>QI</i>.

Before quitting QI, Stephen Fry needed 'a vodka and lie down'

Ebony Bowden

Swinney Vineyards uses bush vines, where the grapevines are left to grow naturally.

Drones propel WA winery Swinney to great heights

David Prestipino

Miguel Maestre is one of Austraia's top chefs.

Miguel Maestre loves our Great Southern land

David Allan-Petale

Pints are back on the menu at two popular waterholes in Perth after some public pressure.

Perth pubs succumb to beer pint pressure!

David Prestipino

Ford is right that more men should endeavour to understand what it's like to be a woman, but will penetrative sex do that?

Should all men be penetrated? Not for the reasons given by Tom Ford

Clementine Ford

Ashley Graham at the Glamour Woman of the Year Live Summit 2016.

Designers 'flatly refused' to dress Ashley Graham for Vogue cover

Nicole Economos

PARIS, FRANCE - DECEMBER 06: Cara Delevingne walks the runway during "Chanel Collection des Metiers d'Art 2016/17 : ...

Chanel entices Cara Delevingne back to modelling

Christmas gift guide

Who should get Christmas presents ... and who shouldn't

Jenna Price

All the gendered expectations that straight people take for granted must be rethought.

When I date women, we don't argue about housework

Breena Kerr

SYDNEY, AUSTRALIA - DECEMBER 07: Dami In arrives ahead of the 6th AACTA Awards Presented by Foxtel at The Star on ...

Best and most creatively dressed at the AACTAs

Jenna Clarke

adult dance

How adult dance classes helped me reclaim my body after birth

Sarah McKenzie

Sacha Baron Cohen and Isla Fisher at the 6th AACTA Awards in Sydney on Wednesday.

Isla Fisher and Sacha Baron Cohen confused by protest

Amy Croffey

Contributing to the world around us can change our biology.

The surprising power of purpose

Sarah Berry

Running into better health.

Get a fitness check in your checkup

GRETCHEN REYNOLDS

Limit your options and create mental space.

How I cured my decision fatigue

Helen Russell

Neil Perry's Asian-inspired Christmas lunch.

Neil Perry's Asian-inspired barbecue Christmas feast

Adriano Zumbo's macaron rocky road.

Adriano Zumbo's 'Macaroni Road' macaron rocky road recipe

Stracciatella with beets and tomatoes at Kindred in Sydney.

'Hipster cheese' and other cheese trends making Australia grate again

Justin Ross and son Cooper at a baseball game.

Dad who left son to die in hot car gets life with no parole

Should parents be graded on their commitment to their child's education.

The school 'grading' parents on their performance

Police are investigating new leads in the search for Madeleine McCann.

'Sick' Madeleine McCann merchandise pulled from sale

BAY4GD The Yungas Road, Road of Death, Road down to The Yungas, lowlands of the Beni region, Bolivia, South America

The 8 most beautiful places in the world are also the most dangerous

Neil Gladstone

If you detest seat recliners, try to get a bulkhead seat since there's no seat in front to recline.

Can't afford to fly business? Where the best seats in economy are

Michael Gebicki

Aircraft manufacturers have struggled to deal with the issue of overweight passengers.

What it’s like to fly as an overweight passenger

Google Home. Cute. Knows everything.

Review: Google's Home is where the heart is

The recently-released $US100 Pebble 2 tracks activity, sleep and heart rate, is water resistant, allows for interaction ...

Smartwatch pioneer Pebble shuts down

Donald Trump favours Twitter.

Australian Twitter in 2016: Trump, tragedy and teen heart-throbs

Tim Biggs

Rocio Camacho-Morales, a PhD candidate at the Australian National University.?Here she adjusts the laser equipment in ...

New glasses will one day let you see in the dark

Apple says the issue only affects a small number of 6s units made in September and October 2015.

Some iPhones are randomly shutting down

2016 Mercedes-AMG GLC 43.

Mercedes' Macan rival reviewed

Stephen Ottley

Updated Toyota 86.

Toyota commits to 86 successor

David McCowen

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Paris
France
Avenue des Champs-Elysees
Arc de Triomphe
Traffic
Night
Street
City
Vacations
Europe
Arch
Place ...

Major cities ban diesel engines

David McCowen

Skoda Fabia hatch.

What classy city car should I buy?

Cameron McGavin

2018 Holden Commodore. EMBARGO: 10.01AM 7/12/2016

New Commodore revealed

David McCowen

2017 Mercedes-Benz E-Class Coupe.

Mercedes E-Class Coupe revealed

Greg Kable

The red card change is expected to come into effect next October.

MCC set introduce red cards in all levels of cricket

Nick Hoult

Andrew Bogut ought to call out the bogus.

The truth is out there Mr Bogut, you just have to look

COMMENT
Greg Baum

Shane Yarran been charged over an alleged incident in July 2015.

Career of Shane Yarran in the balance after fresh police charge

Ben Cousins will appear in Armadale Magistrates Court on Thursday.

Ben Cousins due back in court over VRO breach

An aerial view of the new Perth Stadium.

New Perth Stadium to host Bledisloe Cup clash in 2019

Saxon Durrant

Frustrated: Patrick Dangerfield has not ruled out strike action by AFL players.

Pre-season strike action is a possibility: Dangerfield

Sam McClure

Mitch Marsh has hit form in the ODIs but isn't expecting a Test recall soon.

WA all-rounder Mitch Marsh not expecting a Test recall

'Time to unlock the hidden honey badger': Daniel Ricciardo.

Daniel Ricciardo to unlock 'hidden honey badger'