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Explainers
Expert background and analysis on key issues and news events.
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Investigations
From Caliphate to the classroom: How hardline group courts the young
Fringe Islamist group Hizb ut-Tahrir is using front groups to spread its message to young people.
Defence attempts to restrict independent inquiry into helicopter crash deaths
The Australian military has made a submission seeking to severely curtail an independent inquiry’s ability to investigate a fatal Taipan helicopter crash last year.
Foreign homebuyers spend millions in Perth amid calls for surcharge rethink
Buyers from Asia spent more than $5 billion purchasing real estate in Australia last year, but only 5 per cent of that investment was in Perth.
Analysis
China relations
Cheng Lei wanted to do her job. A Chinese embassy official had other ideas
Even in Canberra’s Parliament House, Australia’s monument to democracy, Cheng Lei cannot avoid being hassled by the Chinese government.
Analysis
Jobs
Workers are trying to escape their jobs. Here’s why.
Workers are keen to look for work elsewhere as most do not believe they are paid enough, according to Australia’s largest report on salary trends.
Opinion
Discrimination
I stuck up for students even teachers called ‘satanic’. It cost me my job
It’s hard enough for us as teachers to speak out about how we’ve been treated in religious schools. For our students, it’s almost impossible.
Elise Christian
Former primary school teacher
He fished a safe full of cash from a creek. That was the easy part
A full safe is the holy grail for “magnet fishers” – but pulling a six-figure sum out of the water isn’t as simple a get-rich-quick story as it sounds.
Red hot: Trashed Kelmscott house sells for $100,000 over asking price
Just when you thought Perth’s property market couldn’t get any hotter, a trashed home abandoned by its owners has sold for a premium … with bonus bong included.
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War
Smell of blood is unbearable, bodies everywhere, says Broome nurse in Gaza
Broome nurse Rebecca Smith speaks from Gaza, where she is volunteering in a hospital packed with dead and injured women and children after heavy bombings.
Opinion
Electric vehicles
China is facing an EV dilemma
China has some big decisions to make about its electric car industry. It can’t afford to get them wrong.
Stephen Bartholomeusz
Senior business columnist
Analysis
Russia-Ukraine war
World leaders just pledged ‘lasting peace’ in Ukraine. Achieving it is still a long way off
Any path to ending war in Ukraine will cost many more lives ... and many billions of dollars.
Opinion
West Coast Eagles
Adam Simpson might want to update his LinkedIn as Eagles’ losses mount
If the Eagles are still sitting on three wins and get towelled up by Geelong in their last game for the season, surely Simpson won’t survive the chop this time.
Brendan Foster
Contributor
AFL Briefing
AFL 2024
AFL admits key umpiring error made late in Pies’ comeback; Legend’s take on the speccy
The AFL has admitted to a key umpiring error late in clash between the Roos and Magpies, while Leigh Matthews thinks leaping knee-first into a marking contest could be legislated out of the game.
THE PEOPLE OF PERTH
Dumplings, FOMO and minding your teas and queues: Your Perth dim sum guide
Assemble some friends and clear a weekend morning: one of the world’s great brunching rituals awaits.
Review
Canton Lane serves some of Perth’s finest dim sum from inside a suburban shopping centre
Yes there will be a queue on weekends, but the quality of chef Alvin Ooi’s cooking is worth waiting for.
Western Australia
Flood alert for some WA regions as nation shivers
Two Western Australian regions are bracing for floods, with heavy rain forecast for the start of the week and communities warned to stock up on essentials in case they become isolated.
Perth man charged with the manslaughter of his girlfriend’s son
Police allege Cassidy James Johnstone assaulted Levi Mippy when he was an eight-month-old baby, leaving him with catastrophic injuries that led to his death more than a decade later.
Cook calls on private sector to suggest government land best for housing
Premier Roger Cook says “it’s personal” in the battle to supplement Perth’s increasing housing crisis.
Highways in the sky: The Perth suburbs set to cop more plane noise
Plans for a new Perth Airport runway clearing the final hurdle means new flight paths – and some suburbs experiencing aircraft noise for the first time ever.
Housing crisis relief on the way in Bentley
A WA church is using its vacant properties to help ease the state’s housing crisis, giving people without a chance of entering the rental market a fresh start.
Politics
Analysis
Political leadership
Dutton takes flight as Labor loses altitude. But both face dangers
Peter Dutton is tapping into community anger about the cost of living, and new polling should debunk any idea that he is unelectable.
Business
Saudi Arabia is eyeing a future beyond oil - but there is a problem
The kingdom is desperately trying to juggle its still-vital petroleum industry with the need to get ready for a cleaner future.
World
Analysis
Israeli-Palestinian conflict
Benjamin Netanyahu has a mask for all audiences
Israel has sought to tell the world it is softening its approach in south Gaza while assuring Israelis that the offensive is ongoing.
Isabel Kershner
Opinion
Dutton takes flight as Albanese loses altitude. But both face dangers
David Crowe
Chief political correspondent
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Property
The magic number that tips the rental market in tenants’ favour
Experts say it’s been years since the market has favoured renters, and it would take years of high vacancy rates to reverse the rental crisis.
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Renting
Perth now one of hardest cities in the world to find a rental
Exclusive data shows Perth has one of the most diabolical rental vacancy rates in the developed world – but there are signs the situation may be about to ease.
Good Food
Lifestyle
Analysis
Gadgets
We tried the $2000 baby tech dividing parents
We road-test the controversial Snoo smart bassinet: how much tech is too much for your baby?
Opinion
Chicken
I’m fed up with food labels that come with a side-serve of guilt
Jo Stubbings
Writer and reviewer
Culture
‘Burning rage’: Is this Australia’s answer to I May Destroy You?
Lucy Coleman wanted to put a different kind of woman on Australian screens. She just didn’t expect it to happen this way.
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Analysis
AFL 2024
He beat Daicos, then was dragged: Clarko’s sub call and other round 14 key takeouts
Will Phillips is a maligned top-five draft pick who is uncontracted beyond this year and effectively fighting for his career.
Opinion
West Coast Eagles
Adam Simpson might want to update his LinkedIn as Eagles’ losses mount
If the Eagles are still sitting on three wins and get towelled up by Geelong in their last game for the season, surely Simpson won’t survive the chop this time.
Brendan Foster
Contributor
Opinion
Fremantle Dockers
Beware the wounded dog: Why didn’t Freo tag ‘The Bont’?
He’s been deemed best on ground in four of the last six clashes with the Dockers, and carved up 30 disposals and three goals at the weekend. So why didn’t Fremantle tag Marcus Bontempelli?
Paddy Sweeney
Nine Sports Presenter
Updated
AFL 2024
‘I wasn’t under anaesthetic’: Petracca details treatment for internal injuries
The Melbourne star explained how his condition rapidly deteriorated in hospital after he’d copped a blow to the body in his team’s King’s Birthday clash with Collingwood.
Updated
US Open
The agonising moment on final hole when McIlroy lost the US Open
The Northern Irishman bogeyed his last hole by missing a par putt from about four feet. It handed the lead to Bryson DeChambeau, who sealed victory minutes later.
Four Points
AFL 2024
Ignore their ladder positions, here’s why the Roos and Pies just played out the best game of 2024
The most compelling thing from Sunday’s game was that North Melbourne, of all teams, got nine goals up on last year’s premiers and did it in a thrilling, authoritative fashion.
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NRL 2024
‘They don’t know me, but hate me’: Latrell like you’ve never heard him before
In his first interview in three months, South Sydney fullback Latrell Mitchell reveals the mental battles that left him wanting to quit the sport.
Have Your Say
Maguire has made plenty of changes. That doesn’t mean he’s hit the panic button
There’s no Origin post-mortem like one when NSW lose. But Michael Maguire has danced a fine line between open-heart surgery to his team and making necessary changes.
