Daily stress to make ends meet
PAIGE TAYLORThe Dalys live in the mortgage stress capital of Australia.
Tales of neglect, lives cut short
PAIGE TAYLORThe boy was a toddler when he was found in a park in a remote town in Western Australia’s far-north Kimberley.
ExclusiveFlight triggers asylum boat talk
PAIGE TAYLORThe return of Sri Lankans from Christmas Island to Colombo has fuelled speculation a suspected asylum vessel was intercepted.
exclusiveIslanders take tentative steps
PAIGE TAYLORMalays from the Cocos (Keeling) Islands want to be acknowledged as indigenous Australians.
Race that creates legends
PAIGE TAYLORPatricia Frazis will today recite the Lord’s Prayer in Greek then climb into a boat.
Satellite alert for shark patrols
PAIGE TAYLORThe WA surfbreak where 17-year-old Laeticia Brouwer was killed by a shark will be fitted with satellite detectors.
Beers, bets and breasts
Paige TaylorCoolgardie locals defend their town as the nation’s most notorious pub is back in the news again.
Bush work should be life-changing
Paige TaylorMy mum Narelle was a barmaid down the road from Coolgardie’s Denver City Hotel when she met and married my dad Greg.
ExclusiveParadise open for business
PAIGE TAYLORThe federal government has signalled it is ready to allow more development in some national parks | GALLERY
exclusiveThe elite schools set to lose
STEFANIE BALOGH, PAIGE TAYLORMore than 100 schools will receive less federal funding as part of the PM’s education reforms | SCHOOL SEARCH
exclusiveThe new housing reality
PAIGE TAYLORIt is a tough real estate market when the sale of a house at half the original asking price triggers celebrations.
exclusiveA feral-fed catastrophe
PAIGE TAYLORWork has begun northwest of Alice Springs on the world’s largest predator-proof animal enclosure.
Anzacs’ last glimpse of Oz site
Paige TaylorThe town of Albany on Western Australia’s pristine south coast is at a crossroads.
Acclaim stems from love of nature
Paige TaylorFor her ninth birthday, Eileen Wenn wished for a bunch of roses from her Nana’s garden.
exclusiveSurfers riding next renewables
PAIGE TAYLORSurfers in south-western Australia are watching their community take the next step in renewable energy.
Gay marriage ‘good for business’
EWIN HANNAN, Paige TaylorQantas chief Alan Joyce says most Australias are “fed up” with parliament’s failure to address marriage equality.
EXCLUSIVE‘Cancer means talking to kids’
PAIGE TAYLORDenise Breen embarked on treatment for breast cancer with the wellbeing of her two sons at the front of her mind.
exclusiveCourt: pastor, helper, champion
Paige Taylor, Samantha HutchinsonMarika Court barely recognises the Margaret Court she has read about over the past fortnight.
How to travel platinum class
PAIGE TAYLORAfter decades as a flight attendant, Andrea King is now happy to pay a premium for another kind of adventure.
Where is justice for ‘Justin’?
PAIGE TAYLORWhen a small Aboriginal boy stood in court in July 2003 accused of stealing a car, the judiciary had a dilemma.
McGowan would scrap mine fees
PAIGE TAYLORThe cash-strapped WA government may kill off iron ore fees for miners in exchange for massive one-off payments.
Unions ‘betrayed over jobs threat’
PAIGE TAYLORTensions are emerging from the Labor-affiliated unions that helped the McGowan government win office in March.
Giants gear up for WA tax fight
PAUL GARVEY, PAIGE TAYLORBHP and Rio Tinto will attempt to repel a surprise tax grab from the new West Australian government.
Diversion for childhood obsession
PAIGE TAYLORBrett Chilman started collecting comic books when he was 12. Now he is putting them on display.
exclusiveMowers, cleaners get NDIS cut
ANDREW BURRELL, PAIGE TAYLORMore than 50 maintenance companies sign up to $22bn NDIS to service clients including parents of children with autism.
Cops seek help in dog stabbing
Paige TaylorA labrador has been stabbed to death in a Perth park and police are asking for the public’s help in finding the attacker.
WA borrows $11bn for basics
PAIGE TAYLORThe WA Treasury is weeks away from running out of money for basics, state Treasurer Ben Wyatt said yesterday.
exclusive‘Softer’ juvenile regimen shelved
PAIGE TAYLORThe McGowan government has shelved a ‘softer’ regimen in a WA juvenile detention centre.
Man dies after police tasering
PAIGE TAYLORA man has died after being tasered by a police officer during a struggle in Perth.
