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Bondi Junction shooting, stabbing live updates: Multiple people dead after shooting, stabbing in Sydney’s eastern suburbs
Four people have died in a stabbing spree at the Bondi Junction Westfield on Saturday afternoon. Follow for live updates.
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Multiple people killed in Bondi Junction shooting, stabbing spree
Police have declared a critical incident after at least four people were killed at Bondi Junction Westfield on Saturday afternoon. Follow our rolling coverage.
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Israeli-Palestinian conflict
Qantas’ Perth to London route changed to avoid Iranian airspace
The change in flight path is due to fears Iran is planning an imminent attack on Israel.
Inside backlash facing the biggest energy company
In a narrow peninsula near the WA town of Karratha, construction workers are building what will become the country’s biggest fossil fuel development in a decade.
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Who’d have thought James Taylor, who gave us Fire and Rain, was such a goofball?
The famously subdued singer surprised and delighted the Kings Park crowd with full-blooded renditions of his cherished songs and lots of jokes.
Over 100 millimetres of rain in under an hour during Perth storm
The Department of Fire and Emergency Services confirmed they responded to 59 calls for assistance.
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AFL 2024
Fremantle Dockers to take on Port Adelaide in round five
Follow along for all the major moments and post game reactions as AFL Saturday for round five plays out.
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Ex-garbo buys his neighbour’s house to create $70m compound
He already owned two neighbouring houses, but what could be even better? Adding a third.
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Property development
Hate property developers? It’s high time you stopped
The building of homes by developers is a necessary form of trouble. Let’s work together to get it right if we want to solve the housing crisis.
Tony Richards
Director of the Australian Housing and Urban Research Institute
Biden wipes away another $11b in student debt
Millions of Americans still owe their undergraduate and graduate loans, even though they borrowed only about $US5000 initially.
Former US ambassador, a double agent for Cuba, jailed for 15 years
Manuel Rocha incriminated himself in a series of secretly recorded video conversations with “Miguel”, an FBI agent posing as a Cuban spy.
Trump allies have a plan to hurt Biden’s chances: Elevate third-party candidates
Polling shows that third-party candidates could play an especially large role in 2024.
Alysia has a full-time job. That’s no longer enough
The sales representative knows how lucky she is her rent is less than other places, but she has to do more to stay afloat.
Mind the baby, Boomer: How more grandparents are ending up on the childcare frontline
Who’s looking after the kids? Increasingly, it’s Gran and Gramps.
Garth had been dead for 38 years. Ethne fell in love anyway
Diaries and love letters scribbled in cursive by soldiers at the front can be difficult to decipher. To the rescue: this 91-year-old – and others like her.
Opinion
Retirement living
How to live better now we’re living much longer
It’s likely we’ll all live much longer, and we want those years to be good years. Here’s how to make that happen.
Bec Wilson
Money contributor
Love thy neighbour? What to do when you can’t stand who’s next door
Being woken up at 4am? Or perhaps Mr and Mrs Nosy are constantly complaining about you? We’ve got you covered.
First KISS, next Taylor Swift? Meet the unlikely band opening for the stars
A group of young Central Australian musicians want to inspire the youth of Alice Springs, currently under curfew until Tuesday.
Western Australia
Perth Uber drivers start five-day strike on Friday with airport blockade
Friday night could be chaotic for many as about 4000 ride-share drivers plan to stay home with another 500 of them intending to blockade Perth’s airport.
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Weather
Perth flash floods trap drivers in cars
Cars are underwater, and several people have had to be rescued after an extreme downpour hit Perth’s northern suburbs. See the gallery here.
FMG’s Pilbara actions ‘like kicking a dog when it’s down’, court hears
A remote Aboriginal community’s long and poisonous battle with Fortescue Metals Group over its iron ore-rich Pilbara land has reached the Federal Court.
Perth aid worker shot at during food delivery to Gaza
Tess Ingram worked for WAtoday before taking a job with the UN. She was in a vehicle waiting to deliver aid when bullets began to fly.
Billionaire Stokes family wins support to take over Australia’s largest concrete maker
Boral’s independent directors have caved in to Seven Group’s hardball takeover bid.
Politics
Doctors fear Medicare reforms could ‘reproduce failures’ of UK health system
There are early signs of pushback as the government probes changes that would give pharmacists, nurses and others greater authority to prescribe medicines or make referrals.
Business
Inside backlash facing nation’s biggest energy company
Woodside shareholders are about to decide if the company is doing enough to diversify revenue away from fossil fuels as warnings intensify about emissions heating the planet.
Opinion
Competition
Why the crackdown on ‘killer’ deals is no silver bullet
Clancy Yeates
Deputy business editor
World
Psychedelics and trauma: How one survivor of festival terror attack ‘felt no fear’
For a group of Israeli researchers, the attack on the music festival has created a rare opportunity to study the intersection of trauma and psychedelics.
Opinion
Does banning my child from wearing ‘merch’ make me a bad parent?
Melissa Singer
National fashion editor
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Renting
What can a landlord get away with? In the court of public opinion, it’s changing
Gemma Toogood paid $875 a week in rent for a mould-riddled, rat-infested cottage. Do we still think that’s reasonable?
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Renting
Never-ending run of rises pushes Perth rents to new high
Perth’s rental crisis has worsened as unit and house rents reach fresh highs off the back of a record-low vacancy rate.
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Lifestyle
Mind the baby, Boomer: How more grandparents are ending up on the childcare frontline
Who’s looking after the kids? Increasingly, it’s Gran and Gramps.
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Health and nutrition
Making sense of health headlines shouldn’t be so difficult – or dangerous
Sarah Berry
Lifestyle Health Editor
Culture
From K-drama to K-horror: How South Korea is reinventing zombie flicks
South Korea already as a reputation for making great TV dramas and now Netflix is helping bring their horror films to the world.
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AFL 2024
Burnt out and rocked by the death of his legendary dad, Marsh takes a break
Paul Marsh is reluctantly taking a three-month sabbatical. “It wasn’t a negotiation, it was an ultimatum,” says AFLPA president Patrick Dangerfield.
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AFL 2024
A crying shame: Lion should cop a week for stupidity
The Brisbane Lions have a chance to lead by example in stamping out personal sledging. We’re waiting ...
Greg Baum
Sports columnist
Nina Kennedy won a world title with a broken back. Imagine what she can do in Paris
The 27-year-old pole vaulters had sustained a stress fracture at the end of the previous season and missed months in recovery.
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Courts
AFL great Carl Ditterich charged over alleged historical indecent assault of underage girl
Australian Football Hall of Famer Carl Ditterich has been charged with a string of child sex offences for allegedly assaulting a girl who was under his care in 1985.
‘We all cried’: Australia overcome injury blow with huge Paris ramifications
Australia have overcome a heartbreaking setback on the eve of their Billie Jean King Cup tie, with the extent of a star’s injury woes revealed.
Smith hangs tough to keep Masters dream alive, DeChambeau leads after opening round
Former British Open champion Cameron Smith was “absolutely chuffed” to have ground out a first-round 71 after spending almost a week battling food poisoning.
Lion taunts Melbourne forward with ‘crybaby face’ in spiteful exchange
Two years after being left in tears by a sledge from Lion Dayne Zorko, Melbourne’s Harrison Petty has been targeted with a ‘crybaby’ gesture by another Lion.
Have Your Say
South Africa will be back if they can’t make Europe pay off
Move to Europe and the cash will flow, they said. Well, it hasn’t for South African teams just yet. If it doesn’t, they might be back in Super Rugby given the extraordinary cost of keeping up with the giants of European rugby.
Paul Cully
Rugby columnist
