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Dockers assistant coach sidelined after breaching quarantine; player fined for walking dog
Josh Carr will miss the next two Fremantle games after breaching quarantine rules on return from Queensland while a young defender has been fined for walking his dog.
Ancient sites, rainbow serpents raise risks for Australian miners
Sacred indigenous sites, endangered sawfish and Aboriginal rainbow serpents are the latest challenges confronting Australia as its top mining companies meet for their biggest annual conference.
Exclusive
Hawthorn
Clarkson to payout to near $1m as he and Hawthorn part ways
Hawthorn have asked the AFL about the rules for spreading a termination payment out over multiple years, perhaps three seasons, as The Age revealed the four-time premiership coach would leave the club.
Man turned away from protest tested positive for COVID next day
Police are investigating a 35-year-old man who was allegedly stopped at Central station before he could attend the anti-lockdown protest last Saturday, only to test positive to COVID-19 the next day.
Live
Tokyo Olympics
‘Probably not clean’: US swimmer questions ROC winner
Ryan Murphy said Friday’s 200m backstroke final was “probably not clean” after he lost his Olympic title to Russian Evgeny Rylov but quickly walked back his comments.
Breaking
Japan
‘I can’t believe it’s over’: Australian BMX star Saya Sakakibara out after crash
Sakakibara led throughout the course. As she leapt into the final ditch of the concrete course her bike appeared to skid, before another rider landed on top of her.
Take a sneak peek inside Perth’s best private dining rooms
Stuck in our home town with disposable cash to burn, Perth nightowls found solace splashing a little more on food and wine experiences once post-pandemic restrictions lifted last year and going out became a thing again.
ABC defence to Porter defamation case to be scrubbed from public file
The Federal Court has ordered that secret parts of the ABC’s written defence to a defamation suit brought against it by cabinet minister Christian Porter should be removed from its public records.
Bid for inquest into Perth schoolboy’s death ‘may help save other kids’ lives’
Outside WA’s Supreme Court, tearful parents Pamella and Chris Fink pledged not to give up the fight for mentally unwell children in WA schools.
Opinion
University
UWA sells its soul to appease Australia’s resources sector
What’s the point of actually going to university if there’s no one interesting to learn from, let alone with an international reputation in something like the politics of climate change?
Mark Beeson
Breaking
Shipping
Ship attacked off the coast of Oman: British military group
The region has become the site of several ship attacks suspected to have been carried out by Iran since Trump withdrew America from the nuclear deal in 2018.
Opinion
Coronavirus pandemic
Our anger is focused on vaccination, but is it fed by a dangerous mythology?
Public fury over the slow vaccine rollout presumes that fixing it will deliver us from our troubles, but what if it can’t?
Waleed Aly
Columnist, co-host of Ten's The Project and academic
Why beach volleyball players still wear bikinis
No, women are not required to wear bikinis to play beach volleyball at the Olympics.
Tokyo Olympics
Opinion
Japan
Olympic Games have long been a disaster for some in host cities
- by Michael McDougall and MacIntosh Ross
Breaking
Japan
‘I can’t believe it’s over’: Australian BMX star Saya Sakakibara out after crash
- by Eryk Bagshaw
Updated
Rowing
‘Pretty upsetting’: Australia miss medals in rowing eight, Canada and NZ win
- by Malcolm Knox
Opinion
Opinion
Russian revelation: Why there’s no easy solution to state-sponsored doping
- by Darren Kane
Western Australia
Graphic content
Courts
‘Come get your sister’s dead body’: Perth man killed wife after forced marriage
The court heard Mohammad Ali Halimi had become frustrated about his failed attempts to kindle the marriage.
Exclusive
Courts
Ex-Eagle accused of ‘dodgy’ business dealings, leaving stakeholders in lurch
Reliance Online’s internal legal battle between Andrew Donnelly, Kim Hanson and the company’s directors over a questionable firesale deal finally went to trial this week.
WA Supreme Court judge’s life saved on hockey field
Lucky for Justice John Vaughan the team boasts an ICU specialist, mining company chief executive, former police and surf lifesavers among their ranks.
WA man refused entry into state just days before testing positive to COVID-19
The returned overseas traveller had just completed 14 days quarantine in Brisbane when he landed in Perth and was ordered to spend two days in isolation before being put on a return flight. Days later he tested positive.
Exclusive
Coronavirus pandemic
WA study shows ‘long COVID’ symptoms linger in many
About one-quarter of WA COVID-19 patients continue to experience symptoms like loss of taste and fatigue six months after their infection, a WA-based study has found.
Politics
Exclusive
Defamation
Sky News pays $40,000 plus costs to avoid Hanson-Young defamation suit
The money will be donated to the Australian Youth Climate Commission after Sky News wrongly aired claims the Greens senator involved her niece in a dangerous anti-logging protest.
Business
Ryan Stokes named Boral chair, Seven ups board presence
Seven Group chief executive Ryan Stokes is the new Boral chairman, while the Stokes family investment vehicle has upped its board representation to two after claiming a 70 per cent stake in the company.
World
Updated
Population
The best place to ride out a global societal collapse is New Zealand: study
But if the skies were to darken, seas swell and economies crumble, the best place to ride out global collapse of civilisation, would be New Zealand.
Opinion
The ruthless decision Albanese had to make
David Crowe
Chief political correspondent
Explore
Property bydomain
House prices soar by up to 51 per cent in regional towns
Regional Australia is continuing its dizzying house price growth, with a spectacular 12.5 per cent rise over the past year, latest figures show.
Why the mega-rich have set their sights on luxe inner-city pads
While the leafy old money suburbs still have their appeal, there's some seriously big money flowing into our inner cities.
Life & Culture
Take a sneak peek inside Perth’s best private dining rooms
Stuck in our home town with disposable cash to burn, Perth nightowls found solace splashing a little more on food and wine experiences once post-pandemic restrictions lifted last year and going out became a thing again.
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Sport
Exclusive
Hawthorn
Clarkson to receive $900,000 payout as he and Hawthorn part ways
Hawthorn have asked the AFL about the rules for spreading a termination payment out over multiple years, perhaps three seasons, as The Age revealed the four-time premiership coach would leave the club.
Opinion
Wallabies
Pick and stick: My Wallabies team to face the All Blacks
There are close calls, particularly with younger players challenging the assumption that experience is a necessity on Test rugby’s most difficult stage.
Paul Cully
Rugby columnist
Standard bearers: the footy fans kicking goals for AFL banners
Banners have been part of the game since at least 1939, and they’ve only grown more monstrous in size, complexity – and parochialism – in the decades since.
Flying colours: Aussie women’s sevens team make thumping Olympic return
The Rio 2016 champions opened their campaign in Tokyo with a dazzling 48-0 rout of Japan on Thursday morning and a 26-10 carve-up of China in the evening.
The stakes are high for David Teague - has he lost the players?
St Kilda are only half a game outside the eight, and Carlton not far behind, but Friday night’s clash is between arguably the two biggest disappointments of the season.
Ruck loan: Bomber Phillips to play for Blues twos
Essendon’s Andrew Phillips will return to his old club for a guest stint in the VFL.
China revels in defeat of United States and Australia
The Chinese freestyle relay team surprised themselves by winning gold. President Xi Jinping will see it as “the epitome of a country’s strength and civilisation”.
Have Your Say
Pick and stick: My Wallabies team to face the All Blacks
There are close calls, particularly with younger players challenging the assumption that experience is a necessity on Test rugby’s most difficult stage.
Paul Cully
Rugby columnist
