1 hour ago ‘We support parent choice’: Uproar over NSW schools chief’s push to reconsider private schools

Premier Chris Minns says his government is “certainly not” going to take away options for parents after NSW’s head of public schools questioned if private schools should exist.

Politics

2 h. ago ‘Not the time for cuts’: PM defiant despite global economic shock

Anthony Albanese has refused to say how Australia has been seeking to gain an exemption from Donald Trump’s tariffs.

Events

3 h. ago Hydrogen hopeful Infinite Green Energy collapses into administration

Perth-based hydrogen player Infinite Green Energy has brought in administrators less than 24 hours before it was due to front court in a multimillion-dollar investor dispute.

Politics

3 h. ago Job swap: Marsh quits AFLPA for second stint as cricket union boss

AFL Players Association chief Paul Marsh has resigned to return to his old job in cricket as the boss of Australian cricket’s players union.

Politics

4 h. ago WA news LIVE: Man charged over setting Innaloo house alight, throwing Molotov cocktails at real estate agency

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4 h. ago WA news LIVE: Zempilas vs Labor: Showdown set as parliament resumes; Welcome to the worst intersection in WA

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6 h. ago A West Aussie’s view from the east: Six reasons why Sydney outshines Perth

If you told this rusted-on Perth Hills dweller that she’d move out of her house on a bushy half-acre block to a tiny apartment on the northern beaches of Sydney, I’d have thought you were joking. Yet here I am.

Politics

14 h. ago Federal Labor stumps up $225 million for notorious Reid Highway Erindale Road intersection

The timing of the announcement during the election campaign and location of the two arterial roads mean Labor will hope it factors into voters minds in Cowan, Pearce and Moore.

Economics

15 h. ago NSW Education Department boss questions existence of private schools

Murat Dizdar has slighted his private sector counterparts by suggesting the education system could be better off without Catholic and independent schools.

Politics

18 h. ago ‘V’landys doesn’t understand WA’: Premier takes aim at NRL boss

Roger Cook said WA remained open to a deal if the NRL treated the state with “more respect”.

Politics

19 h. ago Josie was handed two Korean toddlers at the airport. They sobbed ‘mummy’ the whole way to Australia

The former social worker says she is horrified by what she was asked to do in 1984 and is calling for an inquiry into Australia’s overseas adoption practices.

Politics

21 h. ago ‘Listen to us’: Parents want more power for schools to deal with bullies after son, 8, attacked

Mason Farmer was hospitalised after he was attacked on the playground at a primary school in Perth’s eastern suburbs by a child the same age as him. 

Events

21 h. ago Is it too early to write off the Penrith Panthers?: The Billy Slater Podcast

After four straight losses is it time to write off the Penrith Panthers? Billy shares a similar experience when was playing for the Storm and losing five in a row then going on to win the premiership. Are the referees handing out sin bins too easily? Plus, should the bunker be allowed to rule on forward passes? The Billy Slater Podcast with Billy and Peter Psaltis thanks to TAB - For the best time in sport, TAB has the best app in sport. TAB, We’re On. Send through your questions to Billy billyslaterpodcast@nine.com.au

Politics

23 h. ago Why timber industry insiders are worried 100,000 tonnes of WA timber will be left to rot

Timber industry insiders are increasingly concerned an estimated 100,000 tonnes of timber will be left to rot. But the government says every bit of it has a home to go to.

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23 h. ago ‘We really love you’: Family plead for help after Perth schoolboy missing for a week

Richard Tu’s phone last pinged on the Monday night he vanished, with police mounting a large-scale search near Bedfordale, but coming up empty-handed.

Events

25 h. ago Form of West Coast’s leaders under microscope; Freo’s dazzling inside 50 statistic

The form of West Coast’s leaders has come under the microscope. Meanwhile, the Dockers inside 50 efficiency was the best it’s been since 2016.

Politics

26 h. ago Trump’s shadow is electoral kryptonite to the voters Dutton needs most

Donald Trump is anathema to the educated, affluent voters in the once-Liberal strongholds the Coalition needs to win back to seize power.

Politics

29 h. ago WA news LIVE: Eagles defend AFL debutant’s ‘baptism of fire’

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Events

33 h. ago DNA could solve mystery of WA woman feared murdered by her husband

Missing Geraldton woman Sally Greenham’s last surviving family have revealed what they believe really happened to their aunt in 1987.

Events

33 h. ago Thailand gave Myanmar what it craved, and it wasn’t humanitarian aid

As junta boss Min Aung Hlaing rubbed shoulders with regional leaders in Bangkok, his military pounded the resistance movement and restricted humanitarian aid.

Politics