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Stepmother jailed for bashing WA girl, 6, over the head with a cricket ball

A 36-year-old woman has been jailed for assaulting her six-year-old step-daughter.

A Perth woman has been jailed for 18 months after violently beating her six-year-old stepdaughter, leaving horrific bruises.

How to sell your home in Perth for $100,000 more than your neighbour

Green homes are in high demand with energy-efficient homes spending fewer days on the market and attracting more views per listing.

Dutton to name nuclear sites within weeks - could Collie be on the list?

Despite a day of confusion among senior MPs about the timing of opposition energy policy, the nuclear plan is imminent.

Perth mother Sophie Cooper with her two daughters Ophelia, 14, and Hope, 16.

Do you hate maths? Don’t tell your kids, WA teachers warn

How can parents do their best to encourage children to enjoy maths, especially if the subject was never one they loved?

Opposition wary of WA government splashing cash on in-house lawyers

A move to hire in-house counsel has angered the opposition.

The Department of Premier and Cabinet will spend $6 million over the next four years to establish a four-person in-house legal team.

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Home loans

Have property prices peaked for now? These factors suggest so

Weakness could emerge in Australian house prices in the second half of 2024 with the RBA potentially keeping interest rates on hold.

Robert Baharian

Thousands of Australians want a place at a top US university. Here’s how Rizina got hers

Rizina Yadav attended an Ivy League university

Australian students vying for entry to elite US and UK universities are beginning their college preparations from as young as 12.

Dutton has dealt himself into contention. Does Albanese have the bottle to go after him?

Labor has the pieces in play to proceed to an election this year.

Following last week’s budget, key elements of the election contest are now in place. Anthony Albanese would be unwise to wait too long in setting a date.

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Norway, Ireland and Spain are formally recognising Palestine as a state

Israel responded angrily to the news, recalling Israel’s ambassadors and summoned the three countries’ envoys in Israel.

Sophie Roome, and her son Rowan, 2.

‘We are devastated’: Australian mother’s incomprehensible grief after murder of two-year-old son

The mother of a child killed by his father in Lismore says the toddler should have been able to trust the man who took his life.

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A WA father’s violence cut his daughter’s life short. He will now walk free

Teagen’s family has now suffered for many years; from her father inflicting terrible brain injuries on her when she was a toddler, and now from her eventual death due to those injuries.

When Teagen Ferguson was just a toddler, her father inflicted on her such catastrophic injuries that she eventually died at 18 years old.

I don’t let my Perth students have phones at school. It’s time others followed suit

While our premier has joined other states’ calls for an enforced age limit on social media, there is no doubt society has left it quite late.

Belinda Provis
Belinda Provis

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Shopping

Eating cheap: Families slash weekly shop to under $200 a week

Mark Morris and his daughter Isla Morris.

Families across the country are being forced to re-evaluate their weekly shops in the face of rising grocery prices.

More young people than ever identify as LGBTQ. But is it easier to be queer today?

Enfys (left) and Jemma are part of the Minus 18 youth leadership program.

What’s it like to grow up queer in modern times? Three Gen Z Australians share their stories.

Bodybuilder sentenced to 30 years for murdering girlfriend

Sven Lindemann, who shrugged off the attempts of a 10-year-old girl to save her mother as he stabbed her to death, has been jailed.

Freakishly scenic … Cocos Keeling Islands.

Australia’s most far-flung and freakishly scenic archipelago

I’ve been advised to “duel to the death” for a window seat on this “cinematic” flight to this little-known Australian territory.

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HBF Run For a Reason 2024: In Pictures

Thousands of people converged in Perth on Sunday to run for charity.

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In pictures: Oasis Ball 2024

The Oasis Ball was held at Crown on Friday and celebrated WA’s advertising and communications industry, while raising money for The Oasis Project.

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WA Premier Roger Cook.

‘Trying to save the planet’: Cook wants line of sight on WA’s gas guzzlers

As climate groups deride his government’s pro-gas stance, the premier is giving thought to how to hold WA’s international gas customers to account on climate.

Perth’s housing crisis deepens as land supply falls and prices rise

WA’s housing crisis is set to be deep and long with no medium-term remedy in sight.

There are just 617 blocks of land for sale in Perth, the lowest number since 2006.

Burglaries, stealing, drug taking, but former immigration detainee is released again

Perth Magistrates Court.

Kimbengere Gosoge is the first immigration detainee to be sentenced for breaching the conditions of his release from detention last year.

Labor’s backing for gas growth ‘not like the Coalition’, minister says

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The federal government doubles down on its support for increased gas production, with Resources Minister Madeleine King labelling calls for no large new gas projects “useless”.

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‘It appears we’re heading to trial’: Reynolds, Higgins, Sharaz fail to reach peace deal in defamation row

Senator Linda Reynolds arriving in court on Tuesday morning.

A West Australian judge adjourned a second attempt to reach agreement, three hours after the parties met.

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The once-affordable Perth suburbs no longer an option for the average couple

More than 50 suburbs across Perth are no longer affordable for the average working couple – including one in the City of Armadale.

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The big brown stain on the WA government’s housing efforts

Labor huffed and puffed about remedying the previous government’s inaction before demolishing the Brownlie Towers housing complex in 2019.

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Jordan De Goey will miss this weekend’s game.
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AFL 2024

Magpie De Goey out of Dockers clash due to ‘fresh injury’

Collingwood have introduced two players with sporting pedigrees to make their debut on Friday night with Jordan De Goey to miss against Fremantle.

Brad De Losa in training at his South Bownfels base shortly before leaving for Italy.

Why sprinting with a roaring 30kg chainsaw is just all part of this game

Australia’s top woodchopping athletes will contest the World Trophy in Milan this weekend, armed with axes and saws of all varieties.

Tarryn Thomas is serving an 18-match AFL suspension and was sacked by North Melbourne.
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Thomas to be barred from football if fresh charges are proven

Sacked North Melbourne footballer Tarryn Thomas was charged by police on Tuesday for alleged harassment and breaching a court order.

Superbowl fans watching the match in Double Bay, Sydney in February 2024

NFL considering Australia as host for a regular-season game

The NFL has confirmed Australia is one of the markets being considered to host a match in the near future as the league expands its reach outside America.

Luke Parker’s collision with Josh Smith.

Swans star Parker suspended for six weeks after ugly VFL collision

The VFL tribunal found Luke Parker had failed in his duty of care in a challenge that left an opponent with facial fractures and concussion.

Jasper Scaife is set to be picked up by North with the top selection in next week’s mid-season draft.

The WA kid with a booming kick set to be top pick in the mid-season draft

Meet Jasper Scaife, the forward with an infamous work ethic whose WAFL coach thinks he has such a booming kick he could be a punter in the NFL if he doesn’t make it in Aussie rules footy.

Sam Kerr won’t be going to the Olympics.

Sam Kerr finally ruled out of Olympics – five months after knee injury

The Matildas had been bizarrely reluctant to speak definitively about her chances – until Tuesday, when coach Tony Gustavsson unveiled his squad for their upcoming friendlies against China.

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