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Violent sex offender released after High Court ruling charged with indecent assault
He attacked three elderly women between 2013 and 2014. He allegedly offended again within a month of the High Court ruling that freed him from detention.
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Healthcare
Babies exposed to vapes as calls to West Australian poisons helpline spike
Health experts have issued a stark warning to West Australian parents about the dangers of vaping products amid a spike in the number of calls to the poisons helpline.
‘Never too late’: WA cops launch podcast to catch killers
A 19-year-old beauty pageant contestant found murdered in 1979 is the subject of the first in a series of podcasts launched by WA Police on Monday.
‘You dealt with rejection in an extreme manner’: Perth dating app stalker caught doing it again
Tom Geoffrey Lewandowski, 35, is back behind bars after police found him once again harassing and stalking women he met online.
Jacinta Price rejected 52 ABC interview requests during Voice campaign
The public broadcaster has cited its futile pursuit of the senator to appear on its national programs as an example of its efforts to cover the divisive referendum fairly.
So you scored a perfect ATAR? Perth students reveal what happened next
Four former students who managed that elusive perfect ATAR result tell how their achievement shaped their future.
Analysis
Australian cricket
Johnson’s blow-up lays bare the divided team he played in
The tone of Mitchell Johnson’s weekend column said as much about his personal playing career as it did about the team he was critiquing.
Labor MP Peta Murphy dies aged 50
Murphy was a public defender before winning the Melbourne seat of Dunkley in 2019, rising to become chair of the House of Representatives committee on social policy and legal affairs.
Teenager pleads guilty to shooting at Perth school
The 15-year-old boy who sent teachers and students into a terrifying lockdown after taking two rifles to school, appeared at Perth’s Children’s Court on Monday.
There are few things better in this world than this
The good people of Argentina have done away with the frippery to serve you a whopping hunk of melted dairy.
Sleep-deprived penguins survive on thousands of naps every day
“This just highlights the fact that we don’t know much about sleep, and all animals are not sleeping like the way we read in textbooks.”
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AFP
Undercover and alone: How the AFP mishandled its most endangered officers
Australia’s undercover police live a dangerous double life, lying for a living and surviving on their wits. A devastating report shows how they were let down by the agency supposed to protect them.
WA education minister apologises to students with disabilities
An autism expert will take part in the review to better support children in the state system, and help is on the way for teachers coping with “complex behaviour”.
Opinion
AI
AI, profit and power: Is Sam Altman sugarcoating the apocalypse?
OpenAI’s CEO Sam Altman, 38, has assumed the role of the upbeat face of AI’s future. But is that what the world needs right now?
Maureen Dowd
New York Times columnist
Western Australia
A little greyer, a little older and a little less arrogant, but he’s still our Robbie
More than three decades into his music career, Robbie Williams still knows how to work a crowd – as Perth found out on Thursday night.
The school catchments behind Perth’s most in-demand suburbs
Domain data reveals the main school catchments people are searching for when looking to buy a house, and the results are more varied than you might think.
How one Perth father's death inspired board shorts range
A Fremantle business is selling bright and bold board shorts in memory of a Perth father who died on a WA beach earlier this year.
Updated
Crime
Perth teacher arrested at school, charged with child exploitation
Detectives will allege the man used various online sites to have sexually explicit conversations, with someone he believed was a young boy.
Updated
City of Perth
State rejects Zempilas’ version of Perth safe night space talks
Lord Mayor Basil Zempilas laid bare details of a conversation with former premier Mark McGowan about the women’s safe space, but the government says he’s wrong.
Politics
France and Australia move to repair relationship after AUKUS rupture
Australian navy ships are to gain greater access to French military bases in the Pacific as part of a plan to deepen relations between the two countries.
Business
Origin shareholders billed $77.7m for failed deal
Advisers from law firms to investment banks are the biggest winners after Origin shareholders rejected a multi-billion-dollar takeover offer from Brookfield and EIG Partners.
World
Investigation
China relations
A country three hours away from Australia is the next frontier of China’s ambitions
There are fresh allegations of intimidation in the Pacific as Beijing’s influence grows to encompass everything from infrastructure to media, mining, policing and healthcare in one of Australia’s closest neighbours.
Opinion
AI, profit and power: Is Sam Altman sugarcoating the apocalypse?
Maureen Dowd
New York Times columnist
Have you ever, ever felt like our kids are being swept away by foreign content?
Jenny Buckland
CEO, Australian Children’s Television Foundation
Explore
Property
Tiny Bondi apartment, with no car park, sells to investor for $511,000
The investor made a final $1000 bid to win the keys to the studio apartment which is the same size as a small hotel room.
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Title Deeds
Double Bay waterfront trophy home listed for $45m, sells for $10m less
It was the first time the house sold in 45 years, and well-heeled neighbours include the Lowy family and former garbo Ian Malouf.
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Meal prep
14 hassle-free meat-free dinners to cook this week
Lifestyle
Opinion
Working from home
Getting back to the office comes at a cost, but who will pay?
The cost-of-living crisis may be a factor in getting workers back to the office. But are bosses blind to the push factors?
Ben Hamer
Futurist
Opinion
Christmas
There are too many Christmas parties, and it needs to stop
Thomas Mitchell
Culture reporter
Opinion
Careers
Three things your boss wants you to stop doing at work
Shelley Johnson
Careers contributor
Culture
Baz Luhrmann reinvented his film Australia using an epic 2.1 million feet of footage
The celebrated Australian director has turned his most polarising film into a six-chapter miniseries for Disney+.
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Analysis
Australian cricket
Johnson’s blow-up lays bare the divided team he played in
The tone of Mitchell Johnson’s weekend column said as much about his personal playing career as it did about the team he was critiquing.
Opinion
Australian cricket
Mitchell Johnson is entitled to his opinion about David Warner – but he’s wrong
As a former fast bowler, Johnson should know you need to hit the mark when sending down a thunderbolt.
Andrew Webster
Chief Sports Writer
Every player from the AFLW grand final rated
We rate every player and both coaches for their performances in a tense and pulsating AFLW grand final.
Fresh injury scare for Magpies, but premiers are as ‘hungry as ever’
Just days after Daniel McStay’s season ended before it started, the Magpies had a scare at training on Monday, but star recruit Lachie Schultz has no concerns about his new teammates’ desire for more success in 2024.
‘We need to get people watching’: What we learnt from the Lions’ triumph
Emma Kearney declared “If there’s one thing you should never do, it’s underestimate the Lions”. So who stood out for the club, and what comes next for this champion team?
Opinion
EPL
Postecoglou silences critics as undermanned Spurs dare to deliver glorious draw
Given their predicament, there were calls for Spurs to apply the brake, shut up shop, park the bus, be more defensive. But, mate, that was never going to happen. Not with Ange Postecoglou in charge.
Jason Burt and Greg Wilcox
‘Yes, we can’: How a jerry can fuelled the Lions’ belief in AFLW grand final
After they lost last season’s grand final at home, the Brisbane Lions went on a gruelling pre-season camp to lay the foundation for success.
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Johnson’s blow-up lays bare the divided team he played in
The tone of Mitchell Johnson’s weekend column said as much about his personal playing career as it did about the team he was critiquing.
