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Man who tested positive to COVID-19 on ship off WA coast taken to hospital
A man who tested positive to COVID-19 has been taken off a ship currently in Commonwealth waters in northern Western Australia and will be moved to a Perth hospital.
Up to 70 per cent of properties in Kalbarri damaged by severe cyclone
Premier Mark McGowan said it could be days before power is restored to towns in the Mid West. Two evacuation centres have been set up in Dongara and Shark Bay.
House prices in WA forecast to increase 15 per cent this year
The strong forecasts are driven by a 5 per cent increase in prices recorded over the first three months of the year.
Seven stands by its senior executive over new evidence of attempted cover-up
The media network says the former soldier denies new allegations that he attempted to cover up police and military investigations into alleged war crimes and buried evidence.
Exclusive
Secrets of War
Ben Roberts-Smith under fresh investigation over burner phones and sealed envelopes
A new police investigation is the third into Australia’s most decorated living soldier and will look into whether he was involved in a conspiracy to silence witnesses.
Mandatory jabs likely for WA quarantine staff amid low take-up
The rules, which are expected to be implemented over the next fortnight, will be similar to existing rules requiring aged care workers to get flu vaccinations before taking on jobs in nursing homes.
Time for a rollout reset, GPs say, with Pfizer freezers a major hurdle
Australia must develop a new model for its COVID-19 vaccine rollout, with general practitioners unable to deliver the preferred vaccine to younger Australians.
‘Grave matters’ to be examined as WA Crown royal commission begins
Day one revealed expert evidence was likely required on whether WA’s casino regulation legislation, enacted in the mid-1980s, remains fit for purpose.
Crown taps former SkyCity deputy chair for board rebuild
Crown Resorts has appointed prominent South Australian businessman and former SkyCity deputy chair Bruce Carter as a director to help rebuild the casino group’s emaciated board.
Opinion
Crown royal commission
No more blissful ignorance of corporate ‘Frankensteins’
The Perth Casino Royal Commission must ask some difficult questions of Crown that go beyond the company’s corporate figureheads as it kicks off today.
Dr Elise Bant
Analysis
Royal family
Tensions remain as Harry returns for Philip’s funeral
The Duke of Sussex’s return to fold for final farewell to Prince Philip offers a chance for reconciliation after the bombshell Oprah Winfrey interview.
Camilla Tominey
The Australian women who don’t officially exist
Up to four former wives of Islamic State fighters are believed to be stuck inside the squalid al-Hawl refugee camp in northern Syria but there is no record of them.
Turnbull says News Corp the most powerful political actor in Australia
Former prime minister Malcolm Turnbull says Rupert Murdoch’s News Corp is a threat to Australian democracy.
US economy at ‘inflection point’, says Fed chief
Fed chief Jerome Powell echoed both his recent optimism about the economy and a warning that the COVID-19 pandemic had not yet been fully defeated.
The groundbreaking Masters champ so shy he had to be coaxed into celebrating
After becoming a national hero as the first Japanese man to win a major, Hideki Matsuyama lifted his arms in triumph at Augusta National. Eventually.
WA HOSPITALS IN CRISIS
WA police coronial unit to assist inquest into seven-year-old’s death
Premier Mark McGowan revealed the coronial unit has been called in to help with the inquiry to run concurrently with the Health Department investigation.
‘We need another hospital’: AMA says at least 500 beds needed to solve WA crisis
Health Minister Roger Cook has pledged answers for Aishwarya’s parents but defended the health system and the government’s response to its ‘challenges’.
Western Australia
‘Black water’: The three Australian sites that are ground zero for climate
Over the past 10 years, each of Australia’s three most important marine sites – two of which are in Western Australia – has seen a disaster. And recent wild weather signals history repeating.
Updated
Weather
Perth misses wild winds as severe weather warning for WA’s south-east cancelled
A severe weather warning for the south-east of WA has been cancelled as the remnants of tropical cyclone Seroja passes by Esperance.
The roof over our balcony is gone’: journalists face brunt of storm as eye of Cyclone Seroja moves over Kalbarri
Nine News Perth reporter Darius Winterfield said his crew was barricaded at the back of his apartment as they were worried the glass doors of the balcony would smash in the cyclonic winds.
WA coastal locals wrap vital supermarket in plastic, sandbag homes as cyclone bears down
Locals are sandbagging their vital food source, dragging rental kayaks as far from surging water as possible and sandbagging homes as they wait for Seroja.
Eighty assaults in WA hotel quarantine which lacks singular workplace culture
About 80 assaults have occured in Western Australia’s hotel quarantine system which lacks a singular workplace culture across its multiple sites, a review has found.
Politics
Aged care sector calls for uncapped home care packages, more staff funding
Two coalitions of aged care peak groups on Monday released their formal responses to the royal commission, urging the government to commit to a total overhaul of the system.
Business
‘No concerns’: Klarna boss unfazed about big banks’ BNPL plays
The Australian head of buy now, pay later outfit Klarna has dismissed concerns over Commonwealth Bank’s recent foray into the sector.
World
‘Huge’ explosion rocks St Vincent as volcano keeps erupting
“It’s destroying everything in its path,” one expert said, as officials said they were worried about the lives of those who had refused to evacuate.
Opinion
Deluge of new US bond sales to test markets’ nerves
Stephen Bartholomeusz
Senior business columnist
The pill causes clots too. Why no outrage?
Gabriela Fowler
Explore
Property bydomain
The second-best option for first-home buyers in a hot market
That dream home might look out of reach as prices run away, but many first-home buyers are turning to this backup plan to get onto the property ladder.
A new seller's dilemma takes hold in booming property market
What do you do when moving into a smaller home would cost more than you've been quoted for your own?
Life & Culture
Exclusive
Literature
Peter Carey: ‘I don’t think we’re going to lose great literature because Philip Roth acted like an a---hole’
The Australian novelist says social change is overdue but there are “a lot of wrongs being done in the name of justice”.
Sport
Updated
AFL 2021
Dockers deny Hawks a second stirring comeback for 2021
The comeback win against Essendon and the two losses full of promise and effort against Richmond and Geelong would have filled Hawks fans with pride. Not Sunday’s early showing, though.
Just In
US Masters
LIVE: Marc Leishman trying to win first green jacket
Marc Leishman is trying to become just the second Australian to win the green jacket as Japan’s Hideki Matsuyama takes a four-shot lead into the final round.
Opinion
AFL 2021
Four Points: Collingwood at a crossroads, Grundy spooked, Dog ruck’s new role
At the end of last year, Collingwood finally admitted it had a problem and made moves to fix it.
Michael Gleeson
Sports columnist
Dees withstand Cats to party like it’s 1994
Melbourne withstood both the conditions and an undermanned but persistent Geelong to continue their unbeaten start to the season, leaving the Demons 4-0 for the first time in 27 years.
Retired Blue Simpson in shock comeback bid
Kade Simspon retired from football after 18 seasons at Carlton. But as he heads towards his 37th birthday, he wants to play AFL football again.
Crows storm home to defeat an injury-depleted North Melbourne
The Roos activated their sub in the first quarter when Luke McDonald was injured and minutes later Cameron Zurhaar was also out with concussion, leaving the home side with three on the bench for the remainder.
Opinion
AFL 2021
The Toby Greene I know: a competitor with a contagious will to win
Just who is the GWS Giants star, so loved internally and so often criticised by those outside the club?
Wayne Campbell
Have Your Say
Big-game players and acres of self-belief: Why the Reds are the real deal
Queensland started the season playing too loose but now they are relentless. Playing against them must feel like opposing a high tide.
