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Perth’s median home price overtakes Melbourne
Home prices have fallen in four Australian capital cities, but Perth continues to lead the nation in price gains.
Opinion
Detention centres
Why are we still locking up our children?
Another day, another kid found dead in a prison cell. It’s not the system that needs to change, it’s our thinking.
Rebecca Peppiatt
Journalist
Alcoa’s mountains of red mud fail to pass vital stability checks
Alcoa is storing enough caustic bauxite residue to fill Optus Stadium more than 350 times in areas south of Perth that have failed to be certified as stable.
Australia joins US to condemn China’s aggressive Coast Guard tactics
Footage shared by Philippines officials at a press conference showed a Chinese boat “directly and intentionally rammed the Philippine vessel”.
Opinion
Real life
Please, stop condemning my nickname as ‘extremely derogatory’ on my behalf
As good as the intentions of the complainant may have been, I don’t need someone to take offence for me. And yet, this demand for censorship is creeping into our lives more and more.
Gary Nunn
Contributor
Opinion
Ask an expert
Should we invest in shares, super, or give bonds a try?
Investment bonds can be a suitable option for those looking for a tax-friendly environment outside of superannuation.
Paul Benson
Money contributor
Prince William is a ‘dad’ but Harry is a ‘daddy’. How can you tell?
Prince William is made of dad material, but Prince Harry is firmly in the daddy category.
Analysis
Workplace safety
Behind the ‘Fight Club’ clause: The litigation Rebel Sport’s bosses don’t want to talk about
Super Retail, the $4 billion retailer behind the brands Rebel Sport, Supercheap Auto, Macpac and BCF is embroiled in a legal brawl that threatens to rupture the group’s leadership.
Exclusive
Title Deeds
Todd McKenney farewells Sydney, set to sell $5m suburban idyll
Todd McKenney is set to swap Sydney for Melbourne, selling the home where he held his intimate high-tea soirees.
Analysis
Rugby Championship
The X-factor Wallaby who offers Schmidt genuine hope for future
Coaches love to talk about attacking structure, but there is no substitute for a player who can make things happen out of nothing. Against Argentina, the Wallabies had just one of those.
Wallabies player ratings: How the men in gold fared against Argentina
The Wallabies secured a vital win in Argentina by one point, winning 20-19 in La Plata.
Can this repairable smartphone deliver a perfect social media detox?
The HMD Skyline has a killer pair of special features, which may or may not be as good as they sound.
Tattoo of us against the world: Australia’s ‘well-oiled’ micro-wedding machine
Australian couples are trading traditional white weddings for matching tattoos, a handful of guests and rock and roll.
Updated
City life
Didgeridoo ‘flash mob’ fills square in bid to break world record
Hundreds gathered in King George Square to surpass the current record of 238 players, set in the UK in 2006.
The biggest game changers in travel this year
We shine a spotlight on the industry heavyweights setting the trends, and leading the charge in the travel space.
Opinion
Five Minutes with Fitz
Among Glenn A. Baker’s greatest hits was knocking over Stevie Nicks
Glenn A. Baker is to Australian rock music what Bob Woodward is to American politics. But questions remain. The “A”? The hat? What happened backstage at Countdown?
Peter FitzSimons
Columnist and author
US rapper Fatman Scoop dies after collapsing on stage
The singer, 53, was seen struggling as he climbed onto a platform during Friday’s performance in Connecticut, before passing out.
Paris Paralympcs 2024
Move over, China. Australia is home to the newest table tennis gold medallists
Lina Lei and Qian Yang are superstars of their sport, with 17 Paralympic table tennis medals between them. Once again, they were too good in Paris.
After surviving a racially motivated machete attack, this Paralympian fell in love with table tennis
Jessy Chen was almost murdered in 2006 and subsequently forced to spend the rest of his life in a wheelchair. Keep an eye out for him next week playing table tennis in Paris.
Western Australia
Updated
Indigenous justice
‘A failure has occurred’: Perth teen takes own life at youth prison
There are calls for the police minister to resign as a youth has taken his own life inside the Perth facility; the second ever to do so, with both tragedies occurring within the past year.
South Dullsville no more? Wake-up call for Perth’s sleepiest inner-city suburb
A leafy inner-city area known for its sought-after real estate – but definitely not its nightlife – is suddenly looking more interesting, and it’s tapping into a zeitgeist.
Australian Nursing Federation state secretary Janet Reah quits
Australian Nursing Federation WA state secretary Janet Reah has announced her resignation effective immediately.
Perth teen jailed for killing woman in late-night joyride
Rebecca Collard was hit and then dragged by the 17-year-old driver who failed to stop, assist or contact authorities after the incident in October last year.
The top WA suburb where families can’t afford to pay the mortgage ... and also can’t afford not to
Most home owners have managed to keep up with 13 interest rate rises, but in some areas at least one in 50 borrowers are behind.
Politics
Exclusive
Aged care
‘A knife fight for staff’: Nurse shortage threatens aged care fix
There could be a shortage of 13,000 nurses in the aged care sector by 2030. The national nursing federation says the industry has to do more to attract and retain nurses.
Business
‘What signal does it send?’: Tech CEOs warn against student caps
CEOs and former international students say caps risk damaging the reputation of Australian tech education at a time when more talent, not less, is needed.
World
Exclusive
Political leadership
‘Australians are wary of anything that defines class or status’: New GG flags more casual approach
Sam Mostyn readily accepts she didn’t fit the bill when it came to what Australians expect of a vice-regal appointment.
Opinion
The crude cap on foreign students is a rotten immigration policy
Parnell Palme McGuinness
Columnist and communications adviser
Should we care if nosy data wonks ask about our sexuality?
Jacqueline Maley
Columnist and senior journalist
If you loved me, you wouldn’t leave me, Dad said. But I had no choice
Neil Orford
Intensive care specialist and writer
Explore
Property
My beautiful laundrette: Wembley outbuilding selling as $300K+ ‘studio’
In a sign of the times, a strata complex’s outbuilding has been creatively converted into a 35-square-metre dwelling and is selling with a “mid-$300Ks” asking price.
‘Better off waiting’: When you should have bought a house
Many homes last changed hands when the market was at its hottest, but buyers who waited have been rewarded with more capital growth.
Good Food
Lifestyle
Idealism or exploitation? The online ‘tradwives’ doing everything to please their husbands
A wave of young women portray a marriage ideal that includes submitting to and serving their husbands. But the movement has prompted warnings from former “traditional wives” that the lifestyle puts women at risk of poverty.
Opinion
Feminism
I’ve never sent a naked selfie. There’s no shame in a little shame
Cherie Gilmour
Freelance writer
Opinion
Mental health
I could have been a billionaire but my brain got in the way
Genevieve Novak
Spectrum columnist
Culture
Kamala Harris brought viewers back to Veep. But only one character sums up party politics
Karen Collins, Veep’s ultimate fence-sitter, is eternal.
Traveller
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Sport
Updated
US Open
Sydney slam: Australia’s US Open last-16 trio fly the flag for Harbour City
Australian trio Alex de Minaur, Jordan Thompson and Alexei Popyrin are all into the last 16 at this year’s US Open – and they all have one thing in common.
Updated
AFLW
The bone-jarring collision that could be heard from the sidelines
It was bad news for Essendon in their opening game of the AFLW season after two key players were taken off the ground after colliding in the forward line.
Updated
Wallabies
Wallabies singing in rain with thrilling one point win in Argentina
The Wallabies snapped an eight-match losing streak in the Rugby Championship with a last-minute penalty goal in La Plata.
Relay disqualification costs women silver, but Australia still claims record medal haul
Australia’s 4x100m women’s relay team were sensationally disqualified minutes after crossing the line thinking they had won silver at the Under-20 world athletics championships in Peru.
Move over, China. Australia is home to the newest table tennis gold medallists
Lina Lei and Qian Yang are superstars of their sport, with 17 Paralympic table tennis medals between them. Once again, they were too good in Paris.
These AFL coaches can win the flag. They don’t get the respect they deserve
Chris Fagan and Ken Hinkley continue to deliver for the Brisbane Lions and Port Adelaide, but the criticism never ends.
Belly breathing in a group is the new NRL fad. But what is the science behind it?
The competition’s two most improved teams – the Bulldogs and Dragons – have taken to standing in a huddle and breathing during games. And they insist the one per-center is working.
Have Your Say
Wallabies player ratings: How the men in gold fared against Argentina
The Wallabies secured a vital win in Argentina by one point, winning 20-19 in La Plata.
