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A woman with a headscarf was attacked outside Coles in Beeliar for not saying 'Merry Christmas'.

Perth man fined for attacking Muslim mother at shops

Josh Kennedy is back for the Eagles.

Eagles power forward Josh Kennedy back for crucial Western Derby

Australian man Shaun Davidson is still on the run.

Bali prison escapees re-enact their great escape through waste tunnel

Will the offer of cheap pies lure punters to see the last Eagles v Dockers clash?

Cheap pies on offer to fill the cheap seats at Western Derby

Cockburn residents are issued 'sad face' flyers for not separating their rubbish correctly.

What a waste: WA man slams 'bin snoops' after 'frowny face' sticker

A letter submitted to the Royal Commission dated September 15, 1959, from Bunbury Bishop John Goody to Marist Fathers ...

Letter reveals WA bishop hired paedophile priest despite sex abuse

Perth man fined $10,000 over animal cruelty to two dogs

Judge says WA police appeal against $1.1m Taser case likely to fail

Perth businessman dies in parasailing tragedy in Thailand

Remains found at WA Museum construction site are human: Police

Unamused Andy Murray corrects reporter overlooking women

Sint Maarten is a popular destination for plane spotters, as the planes fly low over Maho Beach into the airport.

Kiwi woman dies after being thrown from the blast of departing plane

Fly-in, fly-out workers have previously been blamed for pushing up prices for regional airline seats.

Fancy a last-minute flight from Broome to Perth? That's $5,862

Perth, one of the most dangerous places in the world, apparently...

Look out, Perth! We are one of the world's most dangerous cities

The shark was estimated to be around five metres long.

Monster great white feasts on Freo whale carcass

Anthony Paul Zempilas.

It's a boy! Zempilas family welcomes baby number three

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Bali prisoners re-enact their escape

#3: Little Caesars in Mundaring is a right of passage if you grew up in Perth's east.

Perth's top 10 pizzerias: the top five unveiled

Arts and crafts will keep kids entertained for hours.

The staying put in Perth guide to school holidays

Jailed China critic and Nobel winner Liu Xiaobo ...

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Picture Editor's Choice, July 14, 2017

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Look out Perth! We are one of the most dangerous ...

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The drugs found by Derby Detectives.

Teens charged over drug bust near Derby

Phil Hickey

'You have hurt her heart': The devastating impact caused by WA child sex offender

Phil Hickey

New Rockingham development only hits 'tip of iceberg'

Hannah Barry

Dolphins chase down a fishing trawler off the Pilbara coast.

Pilbara dolphins follow fishing boats on WA coast

Hannah Barry

The District Court of WA heard Ruse, a diagnosed schizophrenic, had not been taking his medication and was instead using ...

Four years jail for stabbing housemate in the neck

An early design concept for the staircase would link the park to the look-out tower.

Questions surround Whitfords staircase development

Hannah Barry

Mark Thomas Nelder tried to pay his girlfriend $5000 to prevent her from reporting the accident.

Perth man who broke drunk girlfriend's leg narrowly avoids jail

Australian Roger Hussey before the fall on Kata beach, Thailand.

Australian dies while parasailing in Thailand

Environmental groups want plastic straws banned in Queensland.

Push to ban straws, plastic coffee cups, helium balloons

QLD

Former Rebels bikie gang member Ricky Ciano was last seen alive in Penrith in Sydney's west on February 11.

Man found dead in car may have been given 'hot shot'

NSW

Passengers at Sydney Airport.

Immigration moves to outsource visa system

ACT

Minister for Environment and Energy Josh Frydenberg addresses the media during a joint press conference at Parliament ...

Frydenberg warns states not to go it alone on clean energy

Adam Gartrell

The minister who could make or break the government

Matthew Knott

Big tobacco's behind-the-scenes 'astroturf' campaign

EXCLUSIVE
Adam Gartrell

Liberal MP Craig Kelly in Parliament.

'People will die due to renewables': Turnbull government MP

Greens senator Lee Rhiannon was last month excluded from decisions on contentious policies for the foreseeable future.

Greens hope to end infighting with balance of power compromise

The Curtis Liquefied Natural Gas project site in Gladstone, Queensland.

What's really to blame for your rising electricity bills

EXCLUSIVE
Peter Martin

Same-sex marriage is on the parliamentary agenda again.

Don't get your tux dry-cleaned for gay marriage just yet

COMMENT
Judith Ireland

FILE - In this 2005 file photo, Chinese dissident Liu Xiaobo speaks during an interview with Japan's Kyodo News in ...

Jailed China critic and Nobel winner Liu Xiaobo dies

BREAKING
Chris Buckley
14 mins ago

Malaysian financier Jho Low at a New York charity event in October 2014.

Playboy billionaire blasts Singapore court on missing millions

Lindsay Murdoch

Bali prison escapees Sayed Mohammad Said and Dimitar Iliev in orange police jumpsuits re-enact their escape from ...

Australian Shaun Davidson took four hours to tunnel out of Bali jail

Jewel Topsfield

Christopher Wray, Donald Trump's nominee for director of the FBI, speaks during a Senate Judiciary Committee nomination ...

Trump's pick for FBI vows independence

A teddy bear among the debris of flight MH17 at the crash site outside the Ukrainian village of Grabovka in 2014.

'Did you see the dolls and toys?' An open letter to Vladimir Putin

COMMENT
Jerome Skinner

Same-sex marriage is on the parliamentary agenda again.

Don't get your tux dry-cleaned for gay marriage just yet

COMMENT
Judith Ireland

Co-locating a wind farm with a battery farm makes practical and financial sense.

It's not the wind, it's the gas. Why power prices are going berserk

COMMENT
Peter Martin

Banks will be forced to defer at least 40 per cent of senior executives' bonuses for four years.

Bonus crackdown could lift base banker pay, Treasury warns

Clancy Yeates

Federer

Every good deal has to have something in it for everybody

COMMENT
Harold Mitchell

Nathan Tinkler's thoroughbred empire has officially been wound up.

Gerry Harvey wins as Nathan Tinkler's horse empire sold

Colin Kruger, CBD

The currency is being buoyed by strong Chinese trade data as well as dovish comments by US Federal Reserve chief Janet ...

$A bursts through US77¢ to four-month high

UPDATED
Jens Meyer

Fed's Yellen lights up ASX and $A

Myriam Robin

'Wow them': The charts to show your boss to get a payrise

IN DEPTH
Jessica Irvine

Cochlear 'committed' to Australia despite China move

Mathew Dunckley

First home buyers the new kings of housing market

COMMENT
Michael Pascoe

The new series of The Block is expected to draw attention to Elsternwick.

Homes on 'death row' saved by The Block for new season

Sarah Bouker and partner Anthony Joel are living at her family's place in order to save for their first home.

More adult children living at home, census data shows

Julie Nance knew she had made a mistake as soon as she closed the front door on her house for the last time.

'Let's move back': Why Julie bought the same house twice

Employees work on the warehouse floor at an Amazon.com Inc. fulfillment center in Peterborough, U.K., on Tuesday, Nov. ...

Has Amazon finally thought of a better way of storing its boxes?

From the outside, the building looks like any other early 20th century church. Inside, it's a different story.

'It's a masterpiece': The reinvention of a 100-year-old church

The ongoing fight to become the next hot cold one has seen some breweries take extreme measures.

Silly suds: Are you game to try these extreme flavoured beers?

Fine Drinks

Moncler combines Alpine elegance with a new, invigorating street style.

Alpine style: The sports brand making puffer jackets cool

Men's Style

New York-based Australian writer Emma Vuletic let her Brooklyn apartment via Airbnb to stave off financial trouble.

'I made up for lost child support with Airbnb'

Emma Vuletic

A number of trends are causing higher volatility for individual shares.

Volatility is the new normal in equities

Marcus Padley

Small business ombudsman Kate Carnell would like to see Australia Post CEO Christine Holgate consider bulk deals for the ...

Ombudsman takes on Australia Post over small business rates

Cara Waters

Garrett Jandegian (left) and Ricky Herbert are the co-founders of alkaline water business Aqualove.

Generation ambition: hard working Millennial entrepreneurs buck the stereotype

Cara Waters

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Al Gore launches Victoria's green energy plan

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Connor McGregor: 'He looks like a 12yo gangster'

MAKO tidal turbines

Harnessing tidal power

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Jail for man who trained pets to kill

A demonstrator is taken into custody by U.S. Capitol Police as activists protest against the Republican health care bill ...

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Gather the congregation for the brand new season of Preacher - now streaming only on Stan.

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It is happening again. The new Twin Peaks is now streaming. Only on Stan.

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Sarah Tiong's devastation at sending Eliza home on MasterChef.

MasterChef's immunity pin play that 'weighed heavily' on Sarah

SPOILERS
Aja Styles

Nicole Kidman at the 70th annual Cannes Film Festival.

Kidman, Mendelsohn tipped for Emmy nods as GoT misses out

Broede Carmody

Australian artist Montaigne caused a stir at last year's ARIAs during her 'incomprehensible' acceptance speech for best ...

This could be a costly move by Channel Nine on Ten's turf

Broede Carmody

Edgar Wright (left) and Ansel Elgort on the set of Baby Driver.

Why Baby Driver director was driven by music

Garry Maddox

Tough night: A poor performance from the vast majority of the Blues side in game three.

Stage of Origin final smashed the TV ratings

Broede Carmody

Sophie Turner on the blue carpet for Game Of Thrones season 7.

'It feels like a death in the family': GoT stars at premiere

Michael Idato

Former ABC host and mechanical engineer Yassmin Abdel-Magied.

Prue MacSween cops backlash over Abdel-Magied comments

Rob Moran

Lorde has given us the best record so far with <i>Melodrama</i>.

The 50 best songs of 2017 (so far)

COMMENT
Andrew Murfett

Might be time to start drinking solo, if the art of drink-dodging continues.

'Whose bloody round is it?' Is the art of 'shouting' dying out?

COMMENT
Brendan Foster

Perth's only high-rise school, St George's Anglican Grammar School, has a rooftop basketball court.

'It's inevitable' Perth will get a high rise primary school

IN DEPTH
David Allan-Petale

Chris Rock's Total Balckout show dives into some personal failures.

Chris Rock delivers personal bombshells to Perth crowd

Fran Rimrod

Clementine Ford with her baby son: "He is the cost too."

Speaking out online has a personal cost, and now my family wears it too

Clementine Ford
1 hr ago

"When I did this to the girls, I felt like I was big."

A twisted version of masculinity breeds sexual abusers

COMMENT
Jane Gilmore

<i>To the Bone</I> tells the story of a young woman's recovery from anorexia nervosa.

Why we shouldn't be afraid of anorexia film, To the Bone

Winnie Salamon

Actor Shia LaBeouf was arrested for public drunkenness.

'I've hit rock bottom'- LeBeouf apologises for racist rant

Joey Pucino

Malala Yousafzai spent her birthday with girls who had been forced to leave school.

Malala has fun birthday with girls who were forced to leave school

The pantry staples: "I like Cobram Estate extra virgin olive oil because they?re Australian; and I always have extra ...

The argument against coconut oil has gone too far

Sarah Berry

Prince William, Duke of Cambridge and Catherine, Duchess of Cambridge attend a State Banquet at Buckingham Palace on day ...

Kate Middleton wears Princess Diana's favourite tiara

Annie Brown

Britain's Andy Murray at a press conference after losing his Men's Singles Quarterfinal Match against Sam Querrey of the ...

'First male player,' Andy Murray corrects reporter, wins hearts

Mary Ward

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'Cafe's babycino ban makes no sense'

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The deadly spot we're missing when we apply sunscreen

Facebook: Angela O'Guinn Downs

Teen electrocuted while using mobile phone in bath

Sushi Shapes. Recipe by Dani Valent, to be used for upcoming story. Images by Julian Kingma, please credit.

Kids in the kitchen: Simple recipes from sushi shapes to basic cakes

Mexican meatballs in spicy macha sauce.

Neil Perry's Mexican meatballs in spicy macha sauce

The good ol' vanilla slice

Top 10 Australian junk foods - do these match your list?

Want an upgrade? Dressing nicely is unlikely to help you.

Dress well for upgrade? Ten of the biggest myths about air travel

Michael Gebicki

What the world famous Azure Window in Gozo island, Malta looked like before it collapsed.

Scathing TripAdvisor reviews for attraction ... that no longer exists

Hugh Morris

Bangkok IS street food.

The best thing about visiting Bangkok is about to be destroyed

Ben Groundwater

DNA.

Scientists store a film in DNA for the first time

Mario Kart VR

Mario Kart VR is a real thing from tomorrow

No-one will accept responsibility for breaking the deadlock which is leaving Australians with no home phone or broadband ...

Australian homes caught in a broadband Catch 22

COMMENT

An ankle exoskeleton.

Humans key to great therapeutic robotics

Google has been facing a steady stream of legal challenges across Europe, with many of the disputes focusing on the ...

Google avoids $1.7b bill for back taxes in France

Aston Martin Valkyrie.

F1 for the road: Inside Aston Martin's Valkyrie

David McCowen

Picture supplied for publicity purposes. Picture shows Holden Commodore's VX HSV XU602

What to look for in a used HSV VX Clubsport

David Morley

The new camera technology detects drivers using their phones.

Top 10 dangerous activities Australian drivers admit to

David McCowen

Suzuki Ignis GL v Kia Picanto.

Head to head: Kia Picanto v Suzuki Ignis

Andrew MacLean

2017 Infiniti Q60 2.0 GT.

Infiniti's BMW 4-Series rival reviewed

Andrew MacLean

2017 Audi SQ5.

Driven: Audi's new petrol-powered hot SUV

Stephen Ottley

Harley Bennell looks set for a handful of games at WAFL side Peel Thunder before his Dockers debut.

Harley Bennell on course for Dockers debut against former side Gold Coast

Kim Hagdorn

Defending champion Andy Murray leaves the court after a shock loss to Sam Querrey.

Defending champion Murray knocked out of Wimbledon

Agony and ecstasy: Queesnland players embrace as Blues slump to the ground in defeat.

Queensland win 11th series in 12 years as Daley defeated

Adam Pengilly

Alex Fasolo is one of the players who has shone a light on the prevalence of mental health issues among footballers.

AFL players set to receive major mental health care boost

Sam McClure

Novak Djokovic was the second major departure from Wimbledon on Wednesday.

Wimbledon: Injury derails Djokovic, Federer triumphs

Patrick Dangerfield holds Luke Hodge in high regard.

'Selfless' Hodge a finals master, says Dangerfield

Jon Pierik

Germany's Marcel Kittel, wearing the best sprinter's green jersey, crosses the finish line to win the eleventh stage.

Tour de France: Marcel Kittel powers to stage 11 win

Thomas' first encounter with Aussie Rules.

Meet the AFL's newest partner: Thomas the Tank Engine

Chloe Booker, Claire Siracusa