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'Really dodgy': Michel's Patisserie faces investigation over expiry date outrage

A Michel's cake featuring coloured tiles that have had their expiry date extended.

Operators of the national chain's stores have been told to extend the use-by dates on cakes and other goods by up to six months.

  • by Adele Ferguson

Accused Perth 'dunny creeper' revealed as boss of cleaning company

Graham Dunlop.

The man accused of following women in public toilets and hostel showers has been revealed as the managing director of a cleaning products company.

  • by Phil Hickey and Heather McNeill

Abbott tells children climate change catastrophe isn't going to happen

School children at a climate change protest near the office of Tony Abbott in Manly.

Young and old braved dark rain clouds to go, armed with signs to protest climate inaction. Tony Abbott told them carbon increases were "modest". 

  • by Laura Chung and Jenny Noyes

Labor lifts environment offers to $1 billion with species, coast plans

Coastal protection from climate change will be part of Labor's environmental priorities if it is elected on May 18.

A Shorten Labor government would channel $62 million into helping to limit coastal climate change impacts, and create a $100 million fund to protect endangered native species, if elected this month.

  • by Peter Hannam

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'Don't sit next to me on a train, I'll flick you': Perth woman lifts lid on life with Tourette's

“Not only is it more rare for a girl to have Tourette’s, it’s even rarer to have coprolalia – that’s the swearing.”

  • by Kate Hedley
Johanna Morrow plays the didgeridoo during a memorial service for Justine Ruszczyk Damond at Lake Harriet in Minneapolis in 2017.

'Not a victory': Damond's family given $US20 million

The settlement comes comes days after a former US police officer was convicted of the Australian woman's murder.

  • by Amy Forliti
Police are investigating the incident, which occurred in Australind on Friday night.

South West crash claims life of young motorbike rider

Police are investigating a crash which claimed the life of a 30-year-old motorcycle rider in Australind on Friday night.

Embattled British Prime Minister Theresa May certainly has nothing to smile about.
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Brexit chaos

'F--- Brexit': Voter anger hits home as Tory and Labour councils routed

Pro-Brexit parties were battered and anti-Brexit parties soared. Does this mean the country now wants to Remain?

  • by Nick Miller
Najibullah Zazi arrives at the offices of the FBI in Denver in 2009 for questioning.

Najibullah was trained to bomb New York, then he switched sides

Najibullah Zazi was a high-school dropout working in a coffee cart when a friend gave him a tape of a radical cleric.

  • by Colin Moynihan
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Lambswool or leather? How to choose the perfect sofa for your home

Lambswool or leather? How to choose the perfect sofa for your home

The following advice details how to choose the perfect sofa for your home including tips on size, shape, placement and styling.

  • by Amelia Barnes
'It feels luxurious and wonderful': Inside a tree house-inspired home

'It feels luxurious and wonderful': Inside a tree house-inspired home

The design of this idiosyncratic home developed in an appropriately unconventional way, as Glenn sought out her daughter’s friend as the architect.

  • by Lucy Feagins

Business

All eyes are on Reserve Bank governor Philip Lowe ahead of a potentially history making Reserve board meeting on Tuesday.

Will they or won't they? Reserve Bank ponders historic election rate cut

After three years on the sidelines, could Australia's central bank be poised to strike, just 11 days out from a federal election?

  • by Jessica Irvine

Small business

'Tie vitality' determines how likely coworkers are to stay in contact after a team disbands.

Two factors that keep teams together

  • by James Adonis
Labor's family trusts tax plan could "punish the majority for the sins of a few", writes Peter Strong.
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Finance

Family Trusts – Good? Evil? Dodgy? OK?

  • by Peter Strong
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Broadcast blue: ABC sport's Andrew Moore (right) believes Ray Hadley (centre), who he accused of bullying at 2GB, exchanged pleasantries for the benefit of Phil Rothfield's column.

Emotional Hadley's pep talk doesn't rate well

It was what 2GB shock-jock Ray Hadley didn't say that left some staff members ''gobsmacked''.

  • by Andrew Hornery
Les Murray at home in Bunyah in 1996.

Taking stock: Australian poetry in the wake of Les Murray's death

"Good poetry takes you beyond yourself. Not just to a club where everyone thinks the same as you." 

  • by Broede Carmody

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Motorola's characteristic round camera bump is here, and also inspires the custom time widget on the screen.
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Moto G7 Plus continues the streak of excellent mid-range Motorolas

At $500, the G7 Plus offers some perks you usually only get with more high-end devices.

  • by Tim Biggs
I want my son to be able to defend himself.

I want my son to be kind, but I also want him to know how to defend himself

Maybe - probably - I am drilling him on self-defence as a way to cope with my own history.

  • by Kristin VanderHey Shaw

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Night rider: Fabian Coulthard after winning the opening race of the PIRTEK Perth SuperNight series.

Coulthard leads Team Penske to one-two finish under lights in Perth

Despite a drama-filled build-up, the Ford Mustangs of Fabien Couthard and Scott McLaughlin resumed normal service in Friday's historic Supercars night race.

  • by Ed Jackson
SYDNEY, AUSTRALIA - DECEMBER 05: John Longmire, Senior Coach of the Swans talks to media during a Sydney Swans AFL pre-season training session at Lakeside Oval on December 5, 2016 in Sydney, Australia. (Photo by Mark Metcalfe/Getty Images)

'Pointy end of elite': Longmire can coach Swans 'as long as he wants'

Swans coach John Longmire breaks Paul Roos' record not as a horse limping over the line but instead a champion who will not be pulled up anytime soon.

  • by Andrew Wu

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