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Images released by police of the stolen car and Joseph during the desperate two hour search.

Man charged over stealing car with toddler on board

Daniel Joshua Ward pleaded guilty to seven offences in the WA District Court on Thursday.

'Inhumane': 12 years jail for 'appalling' rape at WA caravan park

EXCLUSIVE

A mass search of the Murray is being conducted on Friday morning.

River search after mother allegedly tried to drown two sons

UPDATED
17 mins ago

Summonsed home: DFAT is trying to wrangle 113 Very Important Diplomats back to Australia.

Foreign affairs aghast: Only $1.1 million to fly diplomats home?

47 mins ago

The project has attracted more trouble than any government could have bargained for.

Documents suggest 'figures fudged in Roe 8 rush job'

EXCLUSIVE
Emma Young

Pauline Hanson and WA One Nation leader Colin Tincknell at the launch of One Nation in WA at Parliament House.

Pauline Hanson heading west as One Nation takes a hit in WA

The Liberals are now tarnishing One Nation by association

COMMENT
Andrew P Street
1 hr ago

Former Seven West employee ready to sue as affair spat escalates

Bayswater Council knocks back Guildford Road expansion

Three high-profile AFL players front boss over bitter pay dispute

EXCLUSIVE

Push to stop 'guru' David Avocado Wolfe coming to Perth

Mark McGowan and Colin Barnett.

WA election: Exclusive poll shows Labor may fall short

Brendan Foster
46 mins ago

The WA election looks set to be a nailbiter.. how do your views align with those we polled?

Interactive: Have your say on how WA's election is shaping up

21 mins ago

The two Liberal Party billboards that grace the building owned by Lisa Scaffidi and her husband.

Impartial? Scaffidi gives Libs a second serve of free election ads

New York comedian Jenn Welch.

Hilarious reaction to Tinder user who told matches her dad died...

Marc Fennell and the team at The Feed have come up with an SBS parody of the Department of Finance's ridiculously bad ...

That cringe-worthy government ad just got even better...

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Fairfax poll results explained

The cost of living means most people need to work if they can.

It's worth working even when the juggle is a struggle

Communicating with your partner during intimacy is also a strong predictor of orgasm, the study found.

How the 'orgasm gap' can be solved for straight women

Coalition MP Entsch makes kamikaze penalty rates ...

2:03PM

Heavy rainfall warning extended to Sydney as ...

1:44PM

Interactive: Have your say on how WA's election ...

1:43PM

Micro festivals like the Night Noodle Markets will be encouraged if Labor wins the election.

WA Labor to champion micro-festivals and pop-up bars

Pauline Hanson's One Nation might not be the political force in WA politics.

One Nation on the slide in WA as new poll reveals voter drop

Can agriculture become a bigger sector for WA's economy

Growing agriculture and education critical to driving WA economy

The two Liberal Party billboards that grace the building owned by Lisa Scaffidi and her husband.

Second pro-Liberal billboard erected at Scaffidi building

Labor's Ben Wyatt has asked the Barnett government to clarify the details around the Western Power sale, with fears ...

Labor demands details on Western Power deal amid price hike fears

1 hr ago

Labor's Ben Wyatt has asked the Barnett government to clarify the details around the Western Power sale, with fears ...

Labor demands Western Power sale details amid price hike fears

1 hr ago

Is Pauline Hanson heading west to secure One Nation stronghold?

Brendan Foster

Man tells of abhorrent sex abuse at Christian Brothers orphanage

Remains of microorganisms at least 3,770 million years old were found in Canada.

Researchers help discover the world's oldest fossils

David Allan-Petale

The two Liberal Party billboards that grace the building owned by Lisa Scaffidi and her husband.

Impartial? Another Liberal billboard adorns Scaffidi building

David Prestipino

Hundreds queued to be the first in the doors.

Fashion frenzy as new H&M store in Perth draws crowds

Hannah Barry

Rusty was attempting to find his owner who had gone to Margaret River for a wedding.

Real life Red Dog: Pilbara K9 hitchhikes 1400km to find owner

Heather McNeill

Canberran Elliot Schultz has designed a Canberra video game, which includes realising the cities iconic bus stops in ...

The local who turned Canberra into a video game

ACT

David Avocado Wolfe.

Petition to stop wellness 'guru' spreading message

Four properties in Londonderry were inundated with 40cm of water overnight.

Houses flooded as severe weather warning issued

NSW

Photos of the Catholic Worker movement members vandalising the Cross of Sacrifice on Ash Wednesday were emailed to Fairfax.

Religious fanatics charged over memorial damage

QLD

A syphilis outbreak in northern Australia has seen notifications of the infection skyrocket in Indigenous communities.

A national sexual health crisis nobody is talking about

EXCLUSIVE
Michael Koziol
1 hr ago

Coalition MP Entsch makes kamikaze penalty rates pledge

James Massola
1 min ago

Australia's first Joint Strike Fighters unveiled

David Wroe
1 hr ago

Summonsed home: DFAT is trying to wrangle 113 Very Important Diplomats back to Australia.

Foreign affairs aghast: Only $1.1m to fly diplomats home?

SKETCH
47 mins ago

Khaled Sharrouf is the only known case of an Australian terrorist being stripped of their citizenship under the laws.

'Sensational beat-up': Ministers at odds on anti-terror laws

Penalty rates: "This is a matter that the Government has not decided."

MPs could lose seats unless PM intervenes on penalties: polls

EXCLUSIVE

JAKARTA, INDONESIA - FEBRUARY 09: Michael Chan (L) and Helen Chan (R) mother and brother of Andrew Chan hold a press ...

Bali 9 family 'disappointed' by quiet death penalty decision

EXCLUSIVE

Jared Kushner met with Russian ambassador Sergey Kislyak at Trump Tower.

Jared Kushner on growing list of Trump officials who met Russian envoy

David Alexander

Not going away: the Russia shadow. President Donald Trump.

The Trump presidency can't seem to shake Russia's shadow

ANALYSIS

Swedish Army personnel take part in the annual gay Pride Parade in Stockholm in 2015.

Sweden brings back the draft amid security worries

Dianne Reeves, of Seattle, holds an upside-down U.S. flag, commonly seen as a sign of distress, and a photo from the ...

A Republican state-level push to criminalise protest

Former prime minister Tony Abbott.

Go ahead, cut migration. It will only cost $7000 for each Australian

COMMENT
Jacob Saulwick

Bride

Giving up your name after marriage is worth questioning

Clementine Ford

PIC JIM RICE.02.07.2110. PIC SHOWS.piggy bank , Generic saving , investment property , mortgage , home loan , home loans ...

The simple fix to make high-earning investors pay $240m more tax

COMMENT
Peter Martin

Snapchat co-founders Bobby Murphy, left, and CEO Evan Spiegel, center, ring the opening bell at the New York Stock ...

How can Snap lose so much money yet be worth $45b?

ANALYSIS

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Markets Live: Hawkish Fed takes its toll

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Patrick Commins and Jens Meyer
29 mins ago

Willoughby has been home to the Nine Network for 50 years.

Goodbye Willoughby: Nine finds a new home

Carolyn Cummins
58 mins ago

Bunnings' expansion plans for Australia reveal Wesfarmers' $705 million purchase of UK hardware outfit Homebase has not ...

Bunnings swoops on Masters sites to drive major expansion

Catie Low

'Are you living in the real world': MP flames NAB boss

UPDATED
Mario Christodoulou

Robots will take our jobs, expand our 'romantic possibilities'

Colin Kruger, CBD

Cannabis bets take Aussie hedge fund to No.1

Bei Hu

Snap shares frenzy: Kerr's fiancé makes $2.1b in a day

Phil Bock and his dog Sam outside the guest house Phil runs on French Island.

The islands that offer a quick commute to the city

Not all investors take the same approach to getting the keys to the castle.

Which of the five different property investor types are you?

327 Albion Street, Brunswick

Starting from scratch: How to build your own property portfolio

Sycamore Valley Ranch, formerly the Neverland Ranch.

Price of Michael Jackson ranch Neverland chopped by a third

A cozy bedroom

This is what our readers think is missing from every home

A well-proportioned sleeve can make tiny hands look normal.

There's something very different about Donald Trump

1 hr ago

La Corniche ticks all boxes.

Big business: The boutique hotels wooing high-flying CEOs

First Class

Beyonce has the same number of minutes in her day as you.

The secret to finding more time

Catherine Robson

Working into your 60s can be financially rewarding.

Should I retire at age 60 or 67?

YOUR QUESTIONS

Founder of Boost Juice Janine Allis speaking at the Sage Summit.

Janine Allis' advice to entrepreneurs: Marry well

Cara Waters
1 hr ago

Father and son team Ben and Bill Stuth run Bill & Ben The Electrical Men.

The rise of the iTradie

Cara Waters

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Kris Smith: 'Life with Dannii was surreal'

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Senate leader calls for Sessions to resign

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PwC accountants barred from Oscars

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2017 BMW M4 GTS vs BMW S1000 RR video comparison

A blue sky and white clouds are reflected in a street mirror in Frankfurt, Germany,

World of Photos

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Liar. Lover. Con artist - Imposters, new series premiering exclusively on Stan

Stan - Adventure time

Adventure Time Seasons 1-7 now streaming on Stan

Understanding your toddler's fine motor skills

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Hit the road and escape the city

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Wander through ancient landscapes in WA

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Germaine Greer in 1970, at the height of her campaign for women's rights.

Trailblazing feminist Germaine Greer's secrets revealed

Gina McColl

Elle McPherson at Industry Beans in Fitzroy.

Elle Macpherson on business, health and her vegan, digital detox

Melissa Singer

Ed Sheeran had a year off but the new album shows him happy, settled and hit-filled

REVIEW: Ed Sheeran's album will divide and conquer the charts

Bernard Zuel

Martha L. Ruiz and Brian Cullinan from PricewaterhouseCoopers at the Oscars in Los Angeles.

Oscars debacle accountants given bodyguards following threats

Rob Moran

Ryan Corr.

Ryan Corr explains why they made the sequel no one asked for

Karl Quinn

Lorde returns with a pop-focused new single, Green Light.

Watch Lorde's return single filled with heartbreak and dancebeats

COMMENT
Bernard Zuel

Kris Smith was the fourth celebrity voted out of the show.

Kris Smith reveals he walked out on relationship with Minogue

Rob Moran

Alec Baldwin has made a "uge'' impression with his impersonation of Donald Trump.

Baldwin may step in for Trump at White House dinner

Broede Carmody

The Kookaburra boats are towed out to compete in the America's Cup.

How the 1987 America's Cup defence changed Perth forever

There'll be four days of epic music at the Port Beach Weekender from March 9-12.

Neil Finn headlines four days of epic music at Port Beach Weekender

The fluids should really run wild, and be good, on Valentines Day.

What wine romantics should drink

David Prestipino

Actress Lisa Kudrow was told on the set of Friends she was only appealing once she had make-up on.

Lisa Kudrow was told she wasn't 'f---able' without makeup

Annie Brown

New York comedian Jenn Welch.

Woman tells Tinder matches her dad died and shares the hilarious replies

Lisa Bonos

The "clones".

Here are the 7 'dream partners' I would create from scratch

Kate Iselin

Jane Fonda at the Golden Globes earlier this year.

'I thought it was my fault': Jane Fonda reveals sexual abuse

Why wasn't there as much outrage about the rate of child sexual abuse?

The outrage directed towards Kasey Edwards missed the point

COMMENT
Jane Gilmore

BEVERLY HILLS, CA - FEBRUARY 25: Actress Naomi Watts, wearing CHANEL, attends the Charles Finch and CHANEL Pre-Oscar ...

Photos: What the Oscars crowd did after the party was over

Emma Watson in the March 2017 issue of Vanity Fair, photographed by Tim Walker.

Everybody needs to calm down over Emma's 'topless' photo

COMMENT
Annie Brown

Models wear a creation for Dries Van Noten's Fall-Winter 2017-2018 ready to wear fashion collection presented in Paris, ...

Paris Fashion Week: Why we'll soon all be dressing like Muppets

Olympic diver Greg Louganis.

How Greg Louganis survived and thrived after a HIV diagnosis

Sarah Berry

A good egg: What's the story?

Butter or olive oil? Eggs or no? New nutritional review cuts through the myths

Cara Rosenbloom

You don't have to abstain from food completely when you fast.

New intermittent fasting studies reignite debate about its benefits

Sarah Berry

EMBARGOED FOR GOOD WEEKEND, FEB 25/17 ISSUE. Neil Perry recipe :?Spaghetti with bottarga Photograph by?William Meppem

Neil Perry's simple cherry tomato spaghetti

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Stop the snack attack

Five tricks to stop late-night snacking

Donald Trump likes his steak very, very, very well-done.

Is Trump's fast food diet to blame for his issues?

Andrew P Street

Rhianna Truman, 17, with her four month old son.

After pausing cancer treatment to give birth, teen mum is dying

Some kids are raking in up to $40, but the average per pearly white is $2.62.

Kids receiving up to $40 per tooth as Tooth Fairy expectations rise

What happens when a school stops giving out homework?

What happened when a primary school stopped giving homework

A deep blue hole at the world famous Azure Window on Gozo island.

Move over, Mykonos: Europe's most beautiful, underrated islands

David Whitley

This is the world's most visited country, according to the figures. But where is it?

Traveller quiz: Which country gets the most international visitors?

Mal Chenu
23 mins ago

The Alaska Train travelling along the shores of Turnagain Arm near Girdwood.

One of the world's greatest train journeys takes just four hours

Brian Johnston

A flat phone battery might lead to a fine.

Battery life the big issue for mobile phone users

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The AWS outage lasted slightly more than four hours.

Amazon's cloud outage due to human error

Moving from portable to home console and back again is as easy as dropping the Switfch into its dock, or lifting it out.

Review: Hybrid console Nintendo Switch is simple, but smart

Artist impression of a habitable planet in the volcanic Hydrogen habitable Zone.

TRAPPIST 1: prospects for life getting better

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What to believe from the Galaxy S8 rumours

Kotaku

Car v Bike: BMW M4 GTS v BMW S1000RR.

Car vs Bike: Which is faster?

Andrew MacLean
48 mins ago

2017 Mercedes-Benz E-Class Cabriolet.

Mercedes-Benz E-Class Cabriolet revealed

Greg Kable

The go-anywhere image of SUVs has helped them outsell passenger cars in Australia.

SUVs sales overtake passenger cars

David McCowen

2017 Holden Astra sedan prototype.

Prototype drive: Holden Astra sedan

Andrew MacLean

2017 McLaren 570S.

Driving McLaren's baby supercar

David McCowen

2017 Range Rover Velar.

Range Rover Velar revealed

Andrew MacLean

Mitchell Marsh is learning to trust his defence.

'I don't read Facebook': How Marsh plays his many critics

Andrew Wu

Bernard Tomic cited "unbearable heat" for defaulting from Wednesday's opening-round match in Acapulco.

Tomic should have been banned after default: Rasheed

Linda Pearce

Lethlean has been announced Mark Evans' replacement.

New AFL footy boss keen on higher scoring

Daniel Cherny

Causing a stir: Amar'e Stoudemire.

Ex-NBA star: 'I'd shower across the street' to avoid gay teammate

Victor Mather

In tune: Jeremy Howe uses his voice.

Buckley gives Pies players an earful

Rohan Connolly

Charging towards a title: Casey Prather grabbed 18 points.

Wildcats can smell series victory

Tim Keeble

Rio Silver medalist: Yulia Efimova.

Swimmer at centre of Rio doping suits up in Oz

Phil Lutton

Australia's Matt Renshaw did well on his debut in India.

Warner's simple advice for young Renshaw