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The Barnett Government is accused of misrepresenting the true cost of the Perth Freight Link project by billions of dollars after FOI documents are released, but Treasurer Mike Nahan says they are out of date.
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While the WA Premier was not amused by protesters in costume outside a Perth school, at least he got some love today from Perth Lord Mayor Lisa Scaffidi, who tweeted her support for his government.
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Workers in the hospitality, retail and fast-food industries will be paid less for working on Sundays and on public holidays after the Fair Work Commission decided to cut penalty rates today.
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With the Fair Work Commission's long-awaited decision on weekend penalty rates handed down, a fierce political fight is reignited between Labor and the Coalition.
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Kim Chance, who was an MP for 17 years and built Australia's biggest commercial camel dairy that transformed outback ferals into calm milking machines, dies at the age of 70.
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Australia Post director Ahmed Fahour resigns just weeks after his $5.6 million was revealed by a Senate committee, which dismissed calls for it to be concealed from the public.
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The Archbishop of Sydney, Anthony Fisher, tells a royal commission the response by Catholic Church leaders to allegations of child sexual abuse amounted to "criminal negligence".
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Mexico reacts with anger to a Trump administration plan to deport non-Mexican illegal immigrants over their border if they entered the US from the southern neighbouring nation.
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New York City swing dance aficionado Lana Turner brings her passion for getting people onto the dance floor Down Under.
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Three Pakistani seafarers who jumped over the side of their livestock ship into Fremantle harbour in an apparent asylum bid will be deported, the Immigration Department says.
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It is almost impossible to fathom director and performer Jonathon Young's personal story of tragedy, which he has drawn on to create the powerful dance theatre show Betroffenheit.
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A pug dog that was reported missing by its Sydney owner, who allegedly spun a bizarre tale of violent robbery, died and was buried at the man's home, according to police.
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If your strategy is based on "down, down, down" like Coles, or "cheap, cheap, cheap" as in Woolworths, it becomes a race to the bottom.
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Electricity retailers ERM Power and Alinta Energy opt to pay more than $130 million in penalties, rather than meeting their renewable energy obligations, raising fresh questions about the Renewable Energy Target.
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A Perth doctor is found guilty of professional misconduct for prescribing large amounts of steroids and other drugs for "no proper therapeutic reason" — with some of his patients having suffered adverse effects.
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Australia's batsmen are digging in Pune in the first Test against India. Follow the action in our live blog.
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Former federal treasury head Ken Henry lashes out at the political and media dysfunction that he says has led to reform paralysis, saying over the last decade almost every major infrastructure project had turned into a fight.
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Allison Baden-Clay's former husband Gerard Baden-Clay will not get any of her money and her father Geoff Dickie has been made executor of her estate, the Supreme Court rules.
