For over a Hundred Years Australia Debt reached $235 billion. This Government has increased it to $562 billion. AND they don’t care, at all. @zoeaeleron They want to give the Banks & Big Business MORE!
They are looking after their ‘mates’, the Banks and Big Business.
They have scrapped the Penalty Rates. Stopped Pensioners getting Heating Allowance. Stopped Funding to Hospitals and more…
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Barnaby Joyce and Malcolm Turnbull voted against the Banking Royal Commission 23 times.
These two claim to be the champions of regional Australia – but today the #bankingRC confirmed what everyone knew- big banks are unfairly driving farmers off their land- these two knew it too, but voted against the royal commission over 20 times- why not report this?
Queensland cattle farmer Elizabeth Handley – having suffered fire, flood and drought – asked ANZ to postpone a mediation meeting because she’d received adverse biopsies and, shortly after, would be diagnosed with cancer. ANZ declined…
Motorists are being warned of severe delays on the Kwinana Freeway in both directions after a car was crushed by a truck in a crash that left at least one motorist trapped.
Emergency services are at the scene of the crash in Success, which involved three cars and a truck.The Department of Fire and Emergency Services (DFES) said one person had been trapped in a car under the truck, but had since been freed.The condition of the truck driver is not known…
The freeway is closed northbound at Rowley Road in Success and Main Roads said there were significant delays in both directions.
Australia’s largest banks may be forced to impose “out of cycle” mortgage rate hikes as global interest rates push higher.
There is speculation they cannot afford the political fallout of raising interest rates while the banking royal commission is underway.
But JP Morgan’s chief economist Sally Auld disagrees with the argument that the political cost would be “too high” for the big four banks.
Why the RBA can’t move
Some economists see the Reserve Bank hiking interest rates before the end of the year. Ian Verrender reckons they’re dreaming.
“What that [view] ignores is the fact that they’re businesses with a clear commercial imperative, at the end of the day, they care about their margins and preserving it,” she said.
Stark footage of WA prison staff using excessive force on inmates has been released by the Corruption and Crime Commission (CCC) as part of a damning series of reports about serious misconduct in prisons.The CCC said unreasonable force was used against prisoners in several incidents at jails in 2016 and 2017.
Dramatic vision from three such incidents has been released, two of them involving the use of chemical agents on prisoners at Eastern Goldfields prison in 2017.
Capsicum spray used on inmates In the first, on May 4, a guard was dealing with a 51-year-old minimum security prisoner who took hold of a door handle and would not let go.Within nine seconds of the prisoner holding the door handle, the officer “requested chemical agent from his colleague” and used it almost immediately.
The Commission said the use of the capsicum spray was not in line with Department of Justice policies and there was an “unacceptable risk of hydraulic eye damage”.The officer had placed his colleagues at risk, the CCC said, although evidence from other officers suggested the prisoner presented no threat.The officer’s own report did not explain why he deployed the agent.
These two claim to be the champions of regional Australia – but today the #bankingRC confirmed what everyone knew- big banks are unfairly driving farmers off their land- these two knew it too, but voted against the royal commission over 20 times- why not report this? #abc730
Bill Shorten’s decision on tax is risky – but the fairness fight has worked for him before #auspol https://www.theage.com.au/politics/federal/bill-shorten-s-decision-on-tax-is-risky-but-the-fairness-fight-has-worked-for-him-before-20180626-p4znrh.html … via @theage
A Federal Court judge has criticised the ABC and Fairfax for attempting to use comments made by a federal MP as proof allegations of bribery against Chau Chak Wing were true.The Chinese-Australian businessman and political donor is suing the two media organisations, as well as journalist Nick McKenzie, for defamation over a Four Corners program and accompanying online story published on June 5, 2017.
Mr Chau argues that among some of the imputations the story conveyed were that he bribed or was involved in a scheme to bribe the former president of the United Nations General Assembly, John Ashe.
The ABC and Fairfax wish to file a defence relying on, among other things, a May speech by the Federal MP Andrew Hastie in which he used parliamentary privilege to name Mr Chau as a co-conspirator in the Ashe matter.When that was raised in an interlocutory hearing on Wednesday, Justice Steven Rares said it was “extraordinary” that the media companies were “trying to use that as evidence of truth” and that is was an abuse of parliamentary privilege.”The fact that Mr Hastie wants to say something doesn’t prove anything,” he said.
A twin-tower development up to 43 storeys high will be built on Perth’s iconic Scarborough Beach after a revised plan was given the tick of approval.
The project, put forward by Chinese-backed developers 3 Oceans, will see two mixed-use residential and hotel accommodation towers of 43 and 33 storeys built on Scarborough Beach Road near the main beach.
The towers will be more than double the height of the existing tallest structure along the beach, the 18-storey Rendezvous Hotel.The Metropolitan Redevelopment Authority (MRA) initially rejected a proposed $400 million plan, which included two towers — one of 43 storeys and another of 35 storeys — over concerns it was a significant overdevelopment of the site.
A car has ploughed through the wall of a KFC in Morley coming to rest in the middle of the restaurant.It’s believed the driver was a 15-year-old girl, who has been taken to Royal Perth Hospital with minor injuries. It’s thought she was behind the wheel of her parents car at the time.
The four wheel drive came crashing through the side of the fast-food outlet on Walter Road West just after 5.30pm this evening.
Source: No one injured as 15-year-old crashes mum’s car through KFC on Walter Road West in Morley | PerthNow
A fiery and emotional debate has erupted in the Western Australian Parliament about the treatment of female MPs in the wake of an incident last week when a senior minister was accused of “feigning a headbutt” towards Nationals leader Mia Davies.
Ms Davies referred the alleged behaviour of Water Minister Dave Kelly to the Speaker of the Legislative Assembly last Thursday, claiming it “bordered on intimidatory”.But on Tuesday Speaker Peter Watson said he would not take the complaint any further and was satisfied Mr Kelly “did not move his head in the Member’s direction”.
Mr Kelly has repeatedly denied the allegation and has the support of the Premier Mark McGowan who said the allegations were “fabricated”. But the response sparked an emotional plea from Ms Davies, who urged her colleagues to refer the matter to a powerful committee for further investigation.”I’m happy to come to this place, I am happy to be criticised, I am happy to have members opposite pull our policy apart … we expect that,” she told the chamber.”But I expect that when one member of this place says they feel uncomfortable, that it is not mocked by those opposite.”‘Extraordinarily offensive’
Twenty-five people were injured, four of them severely, in an explosion that destroyed an apartment building in the western German city of Wuppertal, according to police.
Police said the explosion rocked the several-story building shortly before midnight on Saturday (local time) with a large bang, scaring people in surrounding homes so much they ran out into the street in a panic.
The detonation was so severe it destroyed the building’s attic and the top three floors, the German news agency DPA reported.Fire then broke out in several different parts of the apartment building and firefighters had trouble dousing the flames as parts of the building kept collapsing.Firefighters were able to rescue four severely injured people from inside the building and transport them to hospital.Another 21 people were slightly injured and treated by emergency staff at the scene.
NICK Kyrgios has found himself in hot water once again after an inappropriate gesture was captured by television cameras during his Queen’s Club loss to Marin Cilic.
Just days after BBC apologised following Kyrgios’ swearing was picked up on the telecast, the broadcaster again had to apologise to viewers for the Australian’s behaviour.Kyrgios was filmed performing a lewd act with his water bottle during an on-court break.
It came as Cilic brought Kyrgios’s entertaining run in London to an end on Saturday with a 7-6 (7-3) 7-6 (7-4) victory.
Source: Nick Kyrgios under fire for inappropriate water bottle gesture | PerthNow
A FORBIDDEN love drove a Melbourne wife and her lover to fatally poison her husband in his bed using cyanide-laced orange juice.Sofia Sam, 34, and Arun Kamalasanan, 36, have been jailed for more than 20 years each for murdering Sam Abraham.Mr Abraham, 33, was killed at his Epping family home in October 2015 by his wife and her then-lover Kamalasanan.
The pair were brought to justice on Thursday by a Supreme Court judge who jailed Kamalasanan, deemed the “architect” of the poison plot, for 27 years and Sam for 22 years.“Sam Abraham was a young man asleep in bed at home with his family when he was killed by the use of poison,” Justice Paul Coghlan said at sentence.“I am satisfied that the poison was chosen as your murder weapon in an attempt to avoid detection.” The judge said Sam’s young son was one of the most significant victims of the murder as he will grow up with no father and his mother in jail.
Source: Lovers jailed over cyanide juice poisoning murder of Melbourne man Sam Abraham | PerthNow
Natalie Joyce, the former partner of Nationals MP Barnaby Joyce, has spoken for the first time since the former deputy prime minister’s affair with his staffer became public.Ms Joyce told Women’s Weekly she had to resist “throwing a brick at the TV” as she watched Mr Joyce’s interview with Channel Seven earlier this month, for which he was reportedly paid $150,000. She questioned whether the money should have been paid into a trust fund for Mr Joyce and staffer Vikki Campion’s son.
The unravelling of Barnaby JoyceHere’s the story of how the former Nationals leader brought himself undone.”It begs the question, if Barney agreed to be a part of it, how could he allow his four girls to be overlooked? In saying that, I wouldn’t want a cent of that money,” she said.Women’s Weekly reported the interview was unpaid, and Ms Joyce accepted it before the controversial Channel Seven interview as an opportunity to be heard.
A motorist high on methylamphetamine who drove his four-wheel-drive the wrong way down a major regional highway, colliding head-on with another vehicle and killing the driver, has been found guilty of murder.Shaun Troy Southern, 46, killed Jennifer Pratt when he drove into her car on the dual-carriageway Bussell Highway near the town of Capel in WA’s South West on February 18, 2017.
The world’s oldest Sumatran orangutan, a prolific mother who is estimated to have given birth to 10 per cent of the global population of the species in captivity, has died at the age of 62.
Puan was put down at Perth Zoo after developing age-related complications.Sumatran orangutans, found in the northern parts of the Indonesian island of Sumatra, do not usually live beyond 50 in the wild.According to the International Union for the Conservation of Nature they are critically endangered animals, and their habitat is under threat from wholesale land clearing for forestry and agriculture, including palm oil production.Puan was the matriarch of the Perth Zoo orangutan colony, mothering 11 children during its time in captivity.The long-living primate had a total of 54 descendants worldwide, with 29 still alive today.Its descendants currently make up nearly 10 per cent of the total population of the species in zoos around the world.
A New South Wales Liberal Party meeting has seen one man hospitalised after a brawl broke out at a café in Sydney’s south.A senior Liberal Party source said the clash was “unprecedented” and a “tragic internal shit fight brought about by the pettiness of politics”. Numerous people were seen running from Naji’s Cafe on Firth Street in Arncliffe after police were called just before 7:00pm.It is alleged an older woman was pushed to the ground during the incident, while a man in his 40s has been taken to St George Hospital for treatment to minor injuries.The NSW Liberal Party issued a statement condemning the behaviour.”The Party will fully cooperate with the police in relation to their enquiries. An internal investigation will also be undertaken and disciplinary action taken against those responsible,” the statement said. A senior liberal party source who did not want to be named said the fight was the result of an “internal power play”.
Three people have died after being hit by a train at a station in south London, British Transport Police have confirmed.Officers were called to Loughborough Junction station, near Brixton, shortly after 7.30am after reports of multiple bodies being found on the track.An investigation has begun to identify the three people and the reason why they were on the tracks.Detective Superintendent Gary Richardson, from BTP, said: “My team are now working hard to understand what happened and how these three people came to lose their life on the railway.”My thoughts are with the family and friends of these three people.”At this time, we are treating their death as unexplained as we make a number of immediate inquiries. I would ask anyone who was near to Loughborough Junction this morning, and saw something which they think might be relevant, please contact us as soon as possible.”Loughborough Junction train station, in London. Pic: Nigel Thompson (cc-by-sa/2.0)
Source: Three people killed at south London’s Loughborough Junction train station
Social media blew up with diving memes during France’s clash against the Socceroos.It came as Australia put in a gutsy first half to head to the main break at 0-0, with the green and gold almost pinching the lead through a potential own goal.But the main talking point was the ease at which the French hit the deck under any contact – and sometimes, even no contact – from their opponents.
Source: World Cup 2018: Soccer fans not happy with French players staging during Socceroos clash | PerthNow
A LARGE blaze ripped through an architecturally important building at the Glasgow School of Art, the second time in four years that fire has damaged the famed Scottish school.More than 60 firefighters are fighting the fire at the Mackintosh Building in Glasgow.Crews were called to the scene at 11.19pm on Friday loalc time, with 15 crews in attendance.A Scottish Fire and Rescue Service (SFRS) spokeswoman said they were not aware of any casualties.
Source: Fire breaks out at the Glasgow School of Art for a second time in four years | PerthNow
YOU could be mistaken for thinking s–t has literally hit the fan in an alarming video where two portaloos took flight in a strong gust of wind in the US.Rubbish and tissues begin flying around in a suburban park and parents and children can be seen huddling on the ground for safety before one of the portable toilets slams into a nearby car and then launches into the air like something out of ‘Mary Poopins’ – an uncouth sequel.The portaloo can be seen spraying what we can only hope is washing-up water as it careens across the sky.The other portaloo then takes off, spraying liquid in the direction of park-goers who try to take cover, while a nearby marquee gets ripped out of the ground.The video was posted to Facebook on Monday and has since racked up more than one million views.
Source: Strong winds send portable toilets flying through the sky in US | PerthNow
You’re probably sick of hearing about data and privacy by now–especially because, if you live in the United States, you might feel like there’s very little you can do to protect yourself from giant corporations feeding off your time, interests, and personal information.
So how do you walk the line between taking advantage of the internet’s many benefits while protecting yourself from the corporate interests that aim to use your data for gain? This is the push-and-pull I’ve had with myself over the past year, as I’ve grappled with the revelations that Cambridge Analytica has the personal data of more than 50 million Americans, courtesy of Facebook, and used it to manipulate people in the 2016 elections. I’ve watched companies shut down their European branches because Europe’s data privacy regulations invalidate their business models. And given the number of data breaches that have occurred over the past decade, there’s a good chance that malicious hackers have my info–and if they don’t, it’s only a matter of time.
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A FOUR-YEAR-OLD boy and his great grandfather have died following a deadly blaze at a home in Thornlie last night.
Toddler Thyreese and his great-grandfather Hugo Alaniz, 69, were pulled unconscious from the fire on Rushbrook Way last night.
Paramedics worked for more than 30 minutes to resuscitate the pair and they were rushed to Fiona Stanley Hospital in a critical condition.
Mr Alaniz died a short time later.
Relatives said the little boy was unresponsive and confirmed brain dead this morning, but they had kept him on life support in a bid to save his organs for donation.
Tragically he was confirmed dead this evening.
Hugo Alaniz’s son Raul Alaniz spoke outside hospital today after the family spent the morning by Thyreese’s bed side at Perth Children’s Hospital.
“Thyreese has passed away,” he told 7 News Perth.
“He’s not responsive this morning and we’re in the middle of organising for his organs to be donated.”
Fire Investigators are still looking into the cause of the blaze but said a fire alarm at the property didn’t work.
Fire Investigation Officer Mark Hayes, said it was a timely reminder for families around the State to check their alarms.
“There was no battery in it,” he said
via Deadly Thornlie blaze kills toddler Thyreese Alaniz and great grandfather Hugo Alaniz | PerthNow
Perth is set to record its wettest June for five years inside the first 19 days of the month – with another cold front poised to deliver a soaking to the city.
And the metropolitan gauge may also have received its average rainfall for June by Tuesday.
The latest in a series of cold fronts that have rolled across the coast is set to arrive from late Sunday night and deliver as much as 40mm of rain to Perth on Monday.
There could be up to another 23mm across Tuesday and Wednesday.
“Perth is probably going to start seeing the front from about midnight on Sunday,” Bureau of Meteorology duty forecaster James Ashley said.
“When it hits there is going to be plenty of heavy rain and also likely some squally winds to go with it.
“The rain is going to be seen pretty much right across the west and South West of the state.”
The rainfall will spread far enough east to deliver up to 10mm to farming areas like Cunderdin and Merredin but there will probably only be weak rainfall (5 to 10mm) east of Albany towards Esperance.
But Perth needs only another 29mm to post its wettest winter since 2012, when 140mm fell in the metropolitan gauge.
via Perth weather: looming cold front to deliver Perth’s wettest June for five years | PerthNow
A 28-year-old Perth man sobbed uncontrollably as he detailed to police how his brother was fatally stabbed by their father, who then told him to bury the body in the backyard before leaving to watch the AFL grand final.
In October 2016, Joshua Fisher-Turner was being interviewed by detectives investigating the murder of his 23-year-old brother Matthew, whose body was found in a hole in the yard four weeks after he was last seen alive.
Mr Fisher-Turner and his 21-year-old sister Hannah are on trial in the WA Supreme Court, accused of trying to cover up the killing. Their 67-year-old father Ernest Fisher is accused of murder.
In the recorded interview played to the court today, Joshua Fisher-Turner initially maintained he had last seen Matthew on the day of the AFL grand final when his brother packed a bag and told him he was going on holidays.
However, about an hour an into the interview — and after detectives put to him what evidence they had in the case — Mr Fisher-Turner broke down, describing his brother as an “arsehole to everyone” and claiming he physically abused him, his father and his two younger sisters.
A four-year-old child and an adult have been critically injured in a house fire in Perth’s south-east.
Police were called to the scene at 6:16pm, on Rushbrook Way in the suburb of Thornlie.
Two people — a four-year-old child and adult were rushed to Fiona Stanley Hospital from the scene.
There are conflicting reports that the adult victim was a 40-year-old man, while other authorities described him as elderly.
Inspector Dean Snashall said two occupants of the house had suffered injuries as a result of the fire.
Two boats collided near a Russian city that is hosting the World Cup, killing 11 people, authorities say.
A state media report said the captain of one of the vessels was drunk.
The accident occurred late Monday (local time) on the Volga River several hundred metres off the shoreline of the city of Volgograd in southern Russia.
According to a statement from regional emergency officials, a barge being pulled by a towboat collided with a paddleboat carrying 16 people on a sightseeing tour.
Robert Whittaker has earned a razor-thin decision victory over Yoel Romero in an instant classic at UFC 225 in Chicago.
In one of the most dramatic fights of the year, the 27-year-old Australian was repeatedly dropped to the canvas by his hulking Cuban rival.
In the fifth and final round in particular, Whittaker (20-4) survived an astonishing amount of punishment on his way to a split decision win.
Two of the three judges ruled that the middleweight champion had done enough to win three of the five rounds.
There will be plenty of debate about the decision because Romero (13-3) had the most significant moments of the fight and he arguably deserved a 10-8 scorecard for the fifth round.
The UFC 225 main event was a rematch of the pair’s first meeting in July last year, which the Australian won on points after a five-round war.
It was supposed to be for Whittaker’s UFC middleweight championship, but the UFC removed the title from the equation after Romero missed weight.
via UFC 225: Robert Whittaker earns decision victory over Yoel Romero | PerthNow
Get the umbrellas ready — Perth is set for a weekend of wet weather.
A complex storm front on Saturday night and into Sunday will drench the state with up to 50 millimetres of rainfall, possible thunderstorms and gusty winds reaching 90 kilometres per hour.
Bureau of Meteorology senior forecaster James Ashley said the storm front would cause Perth to hit the halfway mark for the average June rainfall of 173 millimetres in just two days.
“We’re going to have a pretty rainy period Saturday night until about lunchtime on Sunday,” he said.
“About 1:00pm, the wet weather will pass and it will clear up. But between 7:00 tonight and 1:00 tomorrow afternoon, the Perth area is likely to see falls of 20 to 50 millimetres or more with the passage of that system.
“I’d expect coastal parts of the metropolitan area will see winds of up to 80km an hour easing as they get further inland.”
Mr Ashley said while the rain would be heavy at times, it would not be enough to cause significant flooding.
via Perth in for weekend of wet weather, gusty winds – ABC News (Australian Broadcasting Corporation)
AUSTRALIA’s so-called Dr Jihad, Tareq Kamleh may have been killed in Syria.
Several Islamic State fighters are tweeting that Kamleh, who took the name Abu Yousef al-Australie when he joined IS, had been killed in the final battle of Raqqa in September and October last year.
The reports are unverified.
One person has been killed in a small plane crash in a residential street near Moorabbin Airport, in Melbourne’s south-east.
Police said the plane crashed into Scarlet Street, Mordialloc, just after 5:00pm.
It took out power lines and caught fire.
The sole male occupant of the plane was found deceased inside the aircraft. They have yet to be formally identified, police said.
The cause of the crash, and the type of plane involved, is not yet known.
Grant, who lives nearby, told ABC Radio Melbourne that at first he thought it was a car accident.
The aircraft is on the street, its badly burnt in the fuselage behind the engine and the cockpit,” he said.
THE man outed as Brisbane’s alleged poo jogger has resigned from his corporate role at a leading retirement village.
Andrew Douglas Macintosh, 64, was a senior manager at one of Australia’s leading retirement village operators.
As revealed by The Courier-Mail, Mr Macintosh was charged with public nuisance after allegedly defecating on a unit block pathway in Greenslopes while on his morning run.
The alleged deed was captured on camera by a fed-up resident.
via Brisbane’s alleged poo jogger resigns from corporate role | PerthNow
FORMER terror suspect Zaky Mallah, who once threatened to kill officers of ASIO, has been arrested in Singapore.
Seven News reported the Western Sydney-based Mallah has been detained in a holding cell at Singapore airport ahead of the US-North Korea summit next week.
Seven News reported that authorities detained and questioned Mallah for more than five hours after he flew in from Sydney last night. He is to be deported back to Sydney, the network stated.
In a clip broadcast on Seven, Mallah can be heard saying: “They asked me a lot of questions about my history, about my dealings with the Australian government, ASIO, my trip to Turkey, Syria.”
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via Former terror suspect Zaky Mallah arrested in Singapore | PerthNow
Two police officers and a member of the public have risked life and limb to pull a man free from a burning car after it rolled in Gympie, north of Brisbane.
Senior Constable Kevin Mayo and Constable Jeremy Gardiol were called to the single-vehicle crash on Chappel Street about 7:00am on Wednesday, where they found the car on its side, with smoke billowing from the engine.
With the flames building, the two long-time Gympie patrol officers used their batons and kicked the windscreen to smash through and free the man inside and drag him to safety, with help from a passer-by.
The 73-year-old driver and sole occupant was taken to Gympie Hospital with minor head injuries.
Firefighters extinguished the blaze a short time later.
Senior Sergeant Greg Davey was full of praise for the rescuers.
“There was a heap of smoke, it was imminent that it was going to burst in to flames at any time,” Senior Sergeant Davey said.
The Indonesian Corrections office has confirmed a member of the Bali Nine has died in hospital in East Java.
Vietnamese-Australian citizen Tan Duc Thanh Nguyen was serving a life sentence for his role in a plot to smuggle more than 8 kilograms of heroin from Bali to Australia in 2005.
Nguyen, 34, never courted the spotlight, since being arrested in Bali in 2005.
He had been serving out his life sentence at Malang prison in East Java, but according to a spokesman for Indonesian Corrections died from cancer in a Jakarta hospital.
He is the third member of the group of nine to have died. Andrew Chan and Myuran Sukamarin were executed by firing squad in 2015.
MORE than 40,000 properties are without power in southern WA after damaging winds and heavy rainfall battered the coast.
A severe weather warning is in place for a second day for parts of the Pilbara and Gascoyne districts, extending to the lower South West region, due to a rain band and a separate strong cold front.
The State’s electricity utility Western Power says restoring power to customers from Kalbarri to Albany, including Perth, may be slow as bad weather hampers the clean-up process.
State Emergency Service crews have responded to 65 calls for help since Monday.
In Mandurah a houseboat was witnessed sinking at the Dawesville foreshore reserve about 9.30am this morning.
It was reported Water Police attempted to reach the vessel and a smaller yellow boat, but left about 10am as conditions became too dangerous.
via Record rainfall and thousands without power as storm batters WA coast | PerthNow
A magistrate has warned one half of Perth’s so-called “dine-and-dash” couple she faces jail if she is convicted of any of the dozens of charges against her, describing her as a “prolific offender”.
Lois Clover Loder was arrested in April after a restaurant in Henley Brook posted allegations on social media that she and a male companion dined and then left without paying the bill.
Ms Loder was also charged with not paying for fuel at a Glendalough service station and using false credit card details to buy alcohol and book a hotel room.
Today she appeared again in the Perth Magistrates Court where it was revealed she is also facing charges of PayPass fraud.
Her lawyer suggested that if Ms Loder was convicted of those charges, she was likely to receive fines because they involved amounts under $100.
Fremantle captain Nat Fyfe will be ineligible for the 2018 Brownlow Medal after his one-week suspension was upheld by the AFL tribunal.
Fyfe, the 2015 Brownlow Medal winner, was found guilty by the AFL tribunal of making intentional contact with the head of Collingwood’s Levi Greenwood.
He had been hoping to have the charge downgraded from intentional to careless.
Fyfe entered a guilty plea to careless conduct, but the jury upheld his one-match ban after a lengthy 23 minutes of deliberation.
He will miss the Dockers’ fixture with Adelaide in Perth on Sunday.
THE first storm to hit Western Australia this winter is set to bring destructive winds and isolated flooding to the southern half of the state.
A severe weather warning has been issued for coastal areas between Windy Harbour and Kalbarri, including the Perth metropolitan, with residents warned to prepare for damaging wind gusts up to 100km/h late on Monday night and heavy rains developing on Tuesday.
via Bureau of Meteorology issues severe storm warning for southern WA coast | PerthNow
Fremantle captain Nat Fyfe’s chances of winning a second Brownlow Medal this season are in serious jeopardy after an incident in the third quarter against Collingwood at the MCG.
Match Review Officer Michael Christian is certain to look at Fyfe’s late hit on Magpie Levi Greenwood.
Fyfe appears to collect Greenwood in the head with his forearm well after the Collingwood midfielder punched the ball into space, knocking him to the ground.
via Is Fremantle Dockers captain Nat Fyfe in trouble for this hit? | PerthNow
PRIME Minister Malcolm Turnbull looks set to announce an 80-cent GST floor for WA, in a desperate move to hang on to shaky Liberal seats at the next Federal election.
Sources have told The Sunday Times that Mr Turnbull will soon take a “WA specific” GST solution to Cabinet, with an announcement likely to be made at the Liberal State conference in Perth on August 11.
It is understood the yearly GST top-up, which would inject an additional $5 billion into WA coffers over the next three years, would be paid out of consolidated revenue and not the annual GST multibillion-dollar pie, in a move designed to placate the must-win States of Tasmania, South Australia and Queensland.
via Prime Minister Malcolm Turnbull set to announce 80 cent GST floor for WA | PerthNow
PRINCE Harry and Meghan Markle are set to return ‘£7 million’ ($12 million) in free gifts they were sent for the royal wedding.
To celebrate the royal couple’s special day, Kensington Palace received gifts from various companies.
But there are strict rules surrounding what the couple can be sent and many companies gave them presents to promote their wares and get their publicity.
Essentially, plenty of people could be looking to exploit the royals and profit from it.
But royal officials are having none of it, with clear guidelines on what free gifts can and can’t be received.
The Express reports one such company is swimwear brand Bags of Love, who sold swimsuits with the royal couple’s faces on them leading up to the royal wedding.
Harry and Meghan requested fans and wellwishers give to charity instead of giving gifts.
It appears that hasn’t always been the case, as the Daily Star estimates that the free gifts Harry and Meghan are sending back are worth £7 million ($12 million)..
via Prince Harry and Meghan Markle return $12 million in wedding gifts | PerthNow
THE Hawaii community hardest hit by the Kilauea Volcano has been ordered sealed off under a strict new mandatory evacuation as the eruption marked its fourth week with no end in sight.
The Big Island’s mayor, Harry Kim, declared a 17-block swathe of the lava- stricken Leilani Estates subdivision off-limits indefinitely and gave any residents remaining there 24 hours to leave or face possible arrest. The mandatory evacuation zone lies within a slightly larger area that was already under a voluntary evacuation and curfew.
via Evacuations ordered on Hawaii as volcano shows no signs of stopping | PerthNow
LABOR has announced Tania Lawrence as the party’s new candidate for the Darling Range by-election.
Ms Lawrence is Labor’s second candidate for the seat after its first candidate, Colleen Yates, pulled out of the race last week after questions emerged over her claims about her academic qualifications she made online.
Ms Lawrence, who lives in Mundaring, works at Woodside and has also served in the public sector, in emergency response management and counter-terrorism roles.
She was also the first elected female president of Motorcycling Australia.
via Labor’s Darling Range by-election candidate announced as Tania Lawrence | PerthNow
