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Cleo Smith rescued from house just seven minutes from family home
WA acting commissioner Col Blanch said police body-worn cameras captured the moment detectives found and embraced the little girl.
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Police
WA’s top cop ‘broke down in tears’ after Cleo was found following ‘car clue’
“You wouldn’t see too many tears from commissioners these days,” Mr Dawson’s counterpart in NSW, Mick Fuller, said.
Premier Mark McGowan to speak, detectives embraced Cleo after finding her in house
World leaders are struggling to reach a new pact to limit rising temperatures, Victorian state Liberal MP Tim Smith is refusing to quit Parliament and NSW will review its process of awarding taxpayer-funded grants.
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Loading‘We would bring the school down’: The Discord chat that allegedly led to a Perth teacher’s stabbing
Perth Children’s Court heard two female students, aged 13 and 14, had used social app Discord to message one another about a plot to kill over the space of two weeks.
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Crime
‘That sounds fun’: Perth school stabbing was weeks in the making, court told
A 13-year-old girl accused of being an accomplice to a school stabbing by smuggling a 25-centimetre kitchen knife in her bag had texted “that sounds fun” and “that’s so cool” about the plot, according to prosecutors.
Santos’ swinging platform off WA coast had ‘high potential for multiple fatalities’
Dramatic video showed the structure supporting the platform suddenly separating at the head height of two workers, who scrambled for their lives to avoid the platform and numerous steel cables.
Analysis
AUKUS
Australian officials fear leaking Macron’s texts crossed a line amid US tension
Australia’s decision to leak text messages from French President Emmanuel Macron made some officials believe a line had been crossed that risked alienating the Biden administration.
‘He’s lied to me’: Turnbull joins Macron in rebuking PM on subs deal
Malcolm Turnbull said Scott Morrison had lied to him when they worked together in government, but had committed a graver mistake by being dishonest on an international level.
Opinion
Glasgow summit
COP26, a grotesque mix of rent seekers, hangers-on and political wannabes
In Glasgow, world leaders are only a small slice of a climate carnival best described as part-trade fair and part-public relations opportunity.
Bevan Shields
Europe correspondent
Facebook to shut down face-recognition system, delete data
Facebook said it will shut down its face-recognition system and delete the faceprints of more than 1 billion people.
Budget to improve by $45 billion but huge deficits to continue: Deloitte
Deloitte Access expects stronger commodity prices, the recovery from lockdowns and the high take-up of vaccinations to save the budget $45 billion. But it predicts deficits of $60 billion will soon be the norm.
Analysis
Coronavirus pandemic
The COVID conspiracy theorist inside the White House press corps
Suggesting that luciferase is related to Lucifer is like suggesting a bibliography is religious. But none of this matters to Emerald Robinson.
Philip Bump
The search for Cleo Smith
Police searching for Cleo Smith complete extensive highway bin search
Roadside bins from a distance stretching some 600 kilometres along the coastline where Cleo Smith went missing have been scoured by police.
‘Lots of leads’ but no suspects as search for driver of mystery car in Cleo Smith case continues
Nearly two weeks since four-year-old Cleo Smith went missing and police say they have plenty of leads to follow up despite having no luck in identifying a car seen near the remote campsite she disappeared from.
Western Australia
Stokes advisor gets position on WA stadium operator board
Sport and Recreation Minister Tony Buti announced Guy Houston’s appointment to the VenuesWest board alongside UWA director Chris Massey.
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Horse racing
Perth Racing whistleblower pushed to resign after calling out inappropriate conduct
Professor John Yovich was sacked in May after a female staff member approached a member of the organisation’s board and alleged she had received inappropriate text messages from him.
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Mining
Andrew Forrest’s Fortescue faces investor clash on Aboriginal heritage
Billionaire Andrew Forrest’s Fortescue Metals Group is coming under mounting pressure from large investors to campaign for serious Aboriginal heritage reforms.
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Crime
Students accused of plotting to kill teacher at Willetton school appear in court
A Perth student who allegedly stabbed her teacher on Monday is accused of plotting with another teenager to kill the woman.
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Coronavirus pandemic
‘I’m really scared’: Stranded WA traveller granted exemption to see dying mum
Ethan Carter arrived in Sydney from Los Angeles on one of the first international flights which require no quarantining.
Politics
Budget to improve by $45b, but big deficits to continue: Deloitte
Deloitte expects stronger commodity prices, the recovery from lockdowns and the high take-up of vaccinations to save the budget $45 billion.
Business
Analysis
Superannuation
More super for workers, but will employers pay?
Extending superannuation to more workers is welcome but without greater efforts to crack down on enforcement, there is a real risk that super underpayments will grow.
World
‘Take a judgment’: Johnson appears maskless next to 95-year-old David Attenborough
Johnson also apologised to Israel’s energy minister after she complained that a lack of wheelchair access had stopped her from attending the event.
Opinion
Modern-day Robin Hoods at the RBA still loosing monetary policy arrows
Shane Wright
Senior economics correspondent
Carbon offsetting: does it actually work?
Miki Perkins
Environment Reporter at The Age
Fighting fires at home, Xi Jinping makes a two-way bet on climate
Eryk Bagshaw
North Asia correspondent
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Property bydomain
Why are first-home purchases at a decade high when it's so hard to buy a home?
Property prices have spiralled since the pandemic hit, leaving first-home hopefuls scrambling to meet the deposit gap – yet many have found a solution.
'Beginning of the end': How rate rises could kill the property boom
A strong economic recovery may mean earlier than expected rate hikes, which will see home loan repayments increase by hundreds of dollars a month.
Lifestyle
HR is pressuring my sister to go part-time. What can she do?
Working full-time is a financial necessity for many but what happens when your employer wants to change your hours? Start with knowing your rights, says Kirstin Ferguson.
Culture
Paul McCartney, Lisa Wilkinson, Hannah Kent: new books to read in November
With the Christmas book season well underway, publishers still have some treats heading our way.
Sport
The Melbourne Cup everyone needed and no one saw coming
Verry Elleegant, the winner of this year’s Cup, bolted down the Flemington straight like a teenager released from lockdown.
Analysis
Melbourne Cup
‘Substandard? It will go down as one of the great Cups’: Beaten Euro
There was plenty of debate about the quality of this year’s Cup field, but the European raiders say critics don’t know what they are talking about.
Analysis
Melbourne Cup
Melbourne Cup finishing order: Assessing each runner and what the jockeys said
The finishing order is in for the 161st running of the Melbourne Cup at Flemington. It’s the race that stops a nation and this year was no different. Future Score was scratched on Tuesday morning.
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Melbourne Cup
Tralee Rose to be monitored after being galloped on in the Cup
Tralee Rose was sent to Werribee Veterinary Hospital for precautionary scans after the 161st running of the Melbourne Cup, but she has escaped serious injury.
Opinion
Rugby World Cup
Three decades on, Wallabies’ World Cup win still resonates
Thirty years ago, the Wallabies hoisted the Rugby World Cup, launching wild celebrations and an awkward meeting between the Aussie skipper and the British prime minister.
Greg Campbell
Ball winner must be rewarded, says Matthews
The holding the ball rule became a point of debate among senior coaches this year but AFL great Leigh Matthews insists the player who wins the ball must be favoured.
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AFL off-field behaviour
‘Forcible touching’ dropped but De Goey still facing assault charge
Troubled Collingwood star Jordan De Goey no longer faces a charge of “forcible touching”, but New York prosecutors have maintained a charge of assault.
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Melbourne Cup finishing order: Assessing each runner and what the jockeys said
The finishing order is in for the 161st running of the Melbourne Cup at Flemington. It’s the race that stops a nation and this year was no different.
