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WA Police chase MPs in the dead of night hours before hard border comes down
WA Police have spent the early hours of Friday morning chasing around federal MPs who arrived in Perth on Thursday night and were not greeted by officers who usually hand them a written note about coronavirus restrictions.
- by Nathan Hondros
'Go hard and go early': credit card tracking, drivers license scans and pop-up testing to fight new outbreaks
A review of contact tracing systems says they must be digital from end to end, including more use of check-in apps and data to find who has been at hotspots.
- by Katina Curtis and Rachel Clun
'Unprecedented interference': Universities push for more changes to foreign veto bill
It comes as the government agreed to amend its foreign relations bill this week to limit the scope of its powers to tear up agreements with foreign universities.
- by Lisa Visentin
Criminal prosecution must follow Afghanistan war crimes inquiry: experts
Defence experts say it is vital that prosecutions follow the release of a review into the alleged war crimes but warn the public’s expectations must be managed.
- by Anthony Galloway
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‘Trouble seemed to be part of my DNA’: Nick Cave on his teenage years
In an extract from the soon-to-be-released Boy on Fire, the boy from Wangaratta faces a turning point.
- by Mark Mordue
Dazed and confused: Mixed messages on concussion a serious problem
When you have concussion experts strongly disagreeing with those on the frontlines of rugby league, something has to change.
- by Peter FitzSimons
WA media's favourite power couple bound for bright lights of Hollywood
Michael Genovese and Jerrie Demasi will exit the Nine newsroom on St Georges Terrace for the bright lights of Sunset Boulevard.
- by David Prestipino
No copyright in upmarket Australian designer bags, court rules
It's the neoprene tote bag that spawned countless copycats, but the Federal Court has ruled an Australian brand's design is not protected by copyright.
- by Michaela Whitbourn
WA to drop hard border as PM confirms all states to open by Christmas
Australia's COVID-19 recovery continues, with all states to open their borders by Christmas. Meanwhile, the US and Europe face a surging new wave.
- by Roy Ward and Tom Cowie
Western Australia
Inquiry calls for Eagles and Dockers' power over WA football to be reined in
A Parliament inquiry has called for WA's two AFL clubs to have less power over the state's peak football body.
- by Peter de Kruijff
Wesfarmers bosses say limiting retail products to Australian-made would burden customers
Bunnings sources between 35 and 40 per cent of its products from Australia, but Wesfarmers' wider retail businesses source between 20 and 70 per cent of products from China, depending on the category.
- by Hamish Hastie
Upper house rips up Templeman's local government changes
Local Government Minister's attempt to eliminate disputed powers that gave elected councils the ability to side-step chief executives overthrown in Parliament.
- by Peter de Kruijff
WA 'not ready' for COVID-19 outbreak, doctors warn, as PPE sits in warehouses
Just days before the borders lift, the top bodies representing the state's nurses and doctors have taken aim at the government, saying health staff were yet to be trained and properly fitted with PPE.
- by Marta Pascual Juanola
Green group challenges Twiggy to dump gas investments after FMG's renewable revolt
"Mr Forrest cannot expect to be credible by talking on the one hand about renewable energy being the future while still exploring for oil and gas in the Kimberley."
- by Hamish Hastie
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'Economic inequality on steroids': Greens to fight stage three tax cuts
Parliamentary Budget Office modelling requested by Greens leader Adam Bandt shows the Morrison government's tax reform plan will see 58 per cent of the savings flow to the top 20 per cent of income earners.
- by Jennifer Duke
National emergency laws but no sovereign aerial firefighting fleet
- by Angus Livingston and Mike Foley
Business
Running on empty: Oil refineries at breaking point as world grinds to a halt
Silent freeways, empty skies: the deepest and fastest oil demand crash in decades is reverberating through the industry, pushing oil refineries to financial breaking point.
- by Nick Toscano
World
Migrants drown in Libya shipwreck, the fourth accident this week
Twenty African migrants are believed to have drowned off the coast of Libya when their boat sank as they tried to cross the Mediterranean to Europe.
- by Emma Farge
Official behind US misinformation debunker site tells associates he expects to be fired: sources
- by Christopher Bing and Joseph Menn
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At home with former Neighbours actress Mavournee Hazel
The former Neighbours star, who has chosen Australia over Hollywood for now, loves to fill her home with sentimental pieces.
- by Jane Rocca
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'I couldn't look at a tennis court': Why Kyrgios was ready to quit before COVID hit
Kyrgios is a man of few regrets. He doesn't care for the opinions of those he doesn't care about. But if he could go back in time, there is one thing he would change.
- by Michael Chammas
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Australian rugby
Fantasy league: Rugby must be careful not to become NRL's poor cousin
As Larry David says, a good compromise is where both parties walk away equally unhappy. If both sides feel like winners, one of them is kidding themselves.
- by Malcolm Knox
Twenty years after mum's debut for Jillaroos, Parker hits Origin stage
Heading into the Sunshine Coast clash, NSW's Shanice Parker reflects on the legacy her mum left behind to make the women's game what it is today.
- by Sarah Keoghan
Langer backs Warner and Burns partnership over Pucovski
Australian coach-selector Justin Langer has put a high price on incumbency, meaning Will Pucovski faces another hurdle to make the Test XI come next month's series opener against India.
- by Jon Pierik and Andrew Wu
'It's at the stage of mild dementia ... and he's only 40 years old'
The confronting findings of Macquarie University's National Repetitive Head Trauma Initiative lay bare the devastating impact of repeated concussion in sport.
- by Peter FitzSimons
Giants keen to use record-breaking draft haul to move up the order
They never wanted to lose Jeremy Cameron, but Greater Western Sydney are excited about what they could do with the bounty of draft picks they received from Geelong.
- by Vince Rugari
'Unfinished business': Goorjian returns as Boomers coach
Brian Goorjian was there at the beginning, now fate has put him back in the coaching chair for a run at the Australian Boomers' first Olympic medal.
- by Roy Ward
Have Your Say
Malcolm Knox: Fantasy league - Rugby must be careful not to become NRL's poor cousin
As Larry David says, a good compromise is where both parties walk away equally unhappy. If both sides feel like winners, one of them is kidding themselves.
