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Renters are paying thousands more each year.

WA renters are forking out more than $37,000 a year. Here’s what needs to change

A new report, from the WA Make Renting Fair Alliance, has found renters across the state are now paying on average $20,000 more per year than they were in 2021.

  • Holly Thompson

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14.5/20

This Vic Park pop-up is a heady blend of east and west, tradition and modern-day thinking

The new Nusantara food movement is gaining momentum across southeast Asia. With the arrival of Magnolia, Perth is also in on the action.

  • Max Veenhuyzen
Luke Sekkouah has pleaded guilty to the murder of Erica Hay at her Warnbro home. Pictures: Supplied

The words of a killer: Harrowing details of Warnbro mother’s death aired in court

The house in Warnbro was a place of neglect, stained by meth use. It was in this spiralling chaos that Luke Sekkouah stabbed Erica Hay to death and set her body on fire.

  • Rebecca Peppiatt
Anthony Haslewood of Revolution Fisheries loading a catch at Augusta boat ramp.

Less local, higher prices: How will WA’s fishing ban flow through to the public?

Seafood and hospitality industry workers fear Wednesday’s decisions were made with an everyone-in-the-same-fishing-boat mentality.

  • Max Veenhuyzen
The Robinson brothers and Mexico.

West Australians mourned the Robinson brothers together. Now their case is going to trial

Court proceedings are now in their second year, and the trial of the men accused of murdering the brothers and their American friend will likely go into 2026.

  • Hannah Murphy
Giovanna Sinibaldi has been reported missing in the Leederville area..

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The rally against domestic violence at Forrest Place in Perth on November 25, 2025.

When ‘harmless jokes’ aren’t harmless: What it will take to change the story on domestic violence

It doesn’t matter that “it’s not all men”. It’s enough men. Enough to stop women doing things they love. Enough to change how women act and where they go.

  • Holly Edwards-Smith
Thanh Phan, 51, died after he was hit by a 24-year-old woman riding an e-scooter in the Perth CBD.

WA e-rideables inquiry urges major overhaul of laws after surge in deaths and injuries

WA’s first major inquiry interrogating e-scooter and e-bike rules has made a raft of recommendations in a bid to make the vehicles safer on our roads.

  • Carla Hildebrandt
Dario Normal Pacifici was jailed for two and a half years.

‘Greedy’: Murdoch Uni manager jailed for ‘strategic, persistent, corrupt behaviour’

A Murdoch University manager who funnelled more than $1 million worth of work to a company set up by his wife and his close friend will be in jail until 2027.

  • Rebecca Peppiatt
WA Greens leader Brad Pettitt.

WA MPs’ Christmas break delayed as Cook rushes to pass controversial bill

With surrogacy laws passed on Wednesday, the upper house has clear runway to debate the bill into next week, and Premier Roger Cook hopes it will pass before Christmas.

  • Hamish Hastie

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