Battle looms over Packer casino plan

A legal stoush may be looming between local Burswood residents and James Packer's Crown Perth complex. Source: PerthNow JAMES Packer's $570 million six-star hotel plan for Perth is a step closer to becoming the subject of a Supreme Court...

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Bombers on own as clubs back AFL

Western Bulldogs president Peter Gordon speaks on behalf of the 17 clubs who will support the AFL through the ongoing Essendon saga. ESSENDON stands as footy's outcast after the 17 other clubs stood shoulder to shoulder with the AFL....

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Will we go to war in Syria?

Foreign Minister Bob Carr condemns the use of chemical weapons in Syria. NEITHER Kevin Rudd nor Tony Abbott will talk of armed intervention in the Syrian crisis, but Australian officers are already working with US allies on a plan if...

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Mrs Abbott to hit the hustings

Opposition leader Tony Abbott's wife Margie steps into the spotlight to champion the coalition's childcare policy. HE'S surged ahead in the polls but Tony Abbott has reserved a secret weapon for the final two weeks of the election...

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All aboard Hay St protest express

A 42-metre plywood train is sitting in Perth's CBD, part of a council protest against government plans to run the real thing down the middle of the city's shopping malls. Perth City Council has erected a mock light railcar in...

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Two Northam escapees found

Two asylum seekers who escaped from Northam Detention Centre have been caught. Yongah Hill Immigration Detention Centre in Northam. Picture: Kerris Berrington Source: PerthNow TWO of the five men who climbed fences to escape...

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Hird to sue as clash with AFL heats up

Essendon coach James Hird launched a scathing attack at the AFL at a press conference into the use of performance drugs at the Essendon Football Club JAMES Hird will launch Supreme Court action against the AFL over its handling of footy's...

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Worst fine dodgers named and shamed

West Australia's worst 100 fine defaulters, some owing up to $250,000, have been revealed after a government website went live today naming and shaming them all. WA's worst fine defaulters will be named and shamed under new laws....

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'Boycott US after Aussie's murder'

An image from the Facebook page of Sarah Harper, the girlfriend of Australian baseballer Chris Lane. Supplied: FACEBOOK Source: Supplied AUSTRALIAN tourists should boycott the US in the wake of the shooting murder of a Melbourne baseball star,...

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WA schools to close, 500 education jobs cut

Western Australia's harsh budget reality has seen Premier Colin Barnett admit schools in Perth could be closed to save money, on the same day as 500 education staff were told they would lose their jobs. Colin Barnett, pictured at...

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'Get rooted': Comedian to shock jock

COMEDIAN Judith Lucy has told Darwin shock jock Pete Davies to "get rooted" after an on-air interview went sour. Judith Lucy takes on Pete Davies. Picture: NT News Source: News Limited COMEDIAN Judith Lucy has told Darwin...

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Gay slur crisis in 'sex appeal' seat

Tony Abbott with Fiona Scott, who he says has "sex appeal". Source: News Limited THE Liberal Party has scrapped a preference deal with the Christian Democratic Party in the must-win seat of Lindsay after a candidate described gay men as having...

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$2.6b Elizabeth Quay 'won't work'

Work proceeds on the $2.6bn Elizabeth Quay site, one of the city's biggest infrastructure developments. Picture: Daniel Wilkins Source: Supplied Historian Richard Offen says he doubts the Elizabeth Quay development will work. Source: PerthNow...

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'I thought sex killer was The One'

Loretta O'Neill, ex-girlfriend of Adrian Bayley. Photo: CLEO Source: Supplied Court releases a series of CCTV recordings that show Jill Meagher, and her accused killer Adrian Bayley, at various locations on the night she was killed....

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Burning bridges: Matt Keogh's story

Matt Keogh received a bravery medal after he risked his life to save his colleagues and boat people during the Siev 36 incident in 2009. Source: Supplied IN this second extract from Too Bold To Die: The Making of Australian War Heroes by News...

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Pistorius prays as trial date is set

Oscar Pistorius has been charged with Reeva Steenkamp's murder and will face trial in March 2014. PARALYMPIC star Oscar Pistorius will go on trial in March charged with murdering his girlfriend on Valentine's Day, a South African magistrate...

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