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Breaking News from Perth & Western Australia | WAtoday.com.au We’re sorry, this feature is currently unavailable. We’re working to restore it. Please try again later. Dismiss Skip to sections navigationSkip to contentSkip to footer * Friday, March 15, 2024 * Log in Open NavigationMenu WATODAY Independent. 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THE CONFESSION PODCAST Murder was just the beginning in this astonishing new podcast. THE TRAVELLER QUIZ Are you an expert traveller? Test your knowledge with our weekly travel quiz. PerthWeather forecast -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- EXCLUSIVE GAS ABANDONED WELLS IN WA LOOM OVER EXPLORER BEHIND CONTROVERSIAL NSW GAS PLAN A company seeking to drill for gas off the NSW coast and another with abandoned wells in WA are both owned by a firm with questions over its financial viability. * 20 minutes ago OIL AUDACIOUS BID TO DUMP OLD WA OIL RIGS ON BASS STRAIT FLOOR Enough material to build 110 Sydney Harbour Bridges is built into Australian offshore oil and gas rigs, and experts are now grappling with how to safely recover it. UPDATED THE KIMBERLEY STATE SWINGS AXE ON ICONIC KIMBERLEY HORIZONTAL FALLS EXPERIENCE All but one tourism operator in the region will not be allowed to take boats through the falls from 2026 – and the experience will end completely in 2028. COURTS FORMER WA MINING BOSS’ ‘LIEUTENANT’ JAILED OVER ROLE IN $2 MILLION HEIST The “lieutenant” who took orders from a disgraced mining dealmaker will spend more than two years behind bars for her role in the multimillion-dollar heist before Continental Coal’s collapse. EXCLUSIVE INVESTIGATION PERTH MAN ARRESTED AS MILLIONS GO MISSING IN ALLEGED INVESTMENT SCAM Jack Endersby was living the high life based out of his apartment at The Towers at Elizabeth Quay. Then his clients hired a private investigator. UPDATED LOCAL GOVERNMENT PLANNING MINISTER INTERVENES IN PERTH WOMEN’S SAFE NIGHT SPACE CLASH The state government has stepped into a bitter dispute between a community service provider and the City of Perth that left vulnerable women stranded in the middle. * 1 hour ago DEFAMATION HIGGINS’ $2.4 MILLION SETTLEMENT DEED UNDER SCRUTINY AHEAD OF LEHRMANN JUDGMENT Federal Court Justice Michael Lee is preparing to deliver his decision in Bruce Lehrmann’s defamation case against Network Ten and Lisa Wilkinson. * 1 hour ago NUCLEAR ENERGY CSIRO HITS BACK AT DUTTON FOR ‘DISPARAGING SCIENCE’ ON NUCLEAR RENEWABLES ‘MAKES NO SENSE’: WHITBY LASHES NUCLEAR POWER LIVE AFL 2024 AFL 2024 ROUND ONE LIVE UPDATES Follow along for all the major moments and post game reactions as Collingwood and Sydney play at the MCG. * 3 minutes ago LATEST LIVE POSTS * 4.49pm FIRST BLOOD TO THE SWANS * 4.39pm FINAL WORD * 4.34pm COX WATCH TONY WRIGHT’S COLUMN SCAMS ROLL UP, ROLL UP, SUCKERS. HAVE WE GOT A FREE TRIP TO PARADISE FOR YOU There’s one born every minute, and the scammers of the internet know it better than anyone. FOOD SOUTH KOREAN SCIENTISTS TOUT ‘BEEF RICE’ AS FUTURE SOURCE OF PROTEIN Professor Jinkee Hong of Yonsei University in Seoul, who led the research, said it uses grain particles as the base for cultivating animal muscle and fat cells. * 2 hours ago CORONAVIRUS PANDEMIC ‘LONG COVID’ DOESN’T EXIST AS WE KNOW IT, ACCORDING TO NEW RESEARCH * 1 hour ago LIVE NATIONAL NEWS LIVE MCDONALD’S RESTAURANTS SUFFERING NATIONWIDE OUTAGE * 38 minutes ago REVIEW PERTH WANTING A FEED AT THIS PERTH BOWLS CLUB? YOU’LL DEFINITELY NEED TO BE EARLY Under the command of two young gun chefs, the kitchen at Doubleview Bowling Club is a win-win-win for eaters, the community – and for hospitality workers. RECIPE COLLECTION FAKEAWAY FRIDAY IS THE NEW SATAY: 10 SAUCY RECIPES TO STICK ON YOUR LIST There’s something for everyone in these riffs on the Southeast Asian peanut sauce. REVIEW A SUBLIME NOVEL OF FEMALE BRAVERY AND FRIENDSHIP IN THE HEAT OF WAR Kristin Hannah’s latest novel tells the story of a young woman who signs up to go to Vietnam. EDITOR'S PICKS OPINION COMEDY OUR WOKE WORLD CAN’T TAKE A JOKE, AND IT’S NO LAUGHING MATTER PARNELL PALME MCGUINNESS Columnist and communications adviser OPINION TAYLOR SWIFT IS IT OK TO MINE YOUR PAST RELATIONSHIPS TO FEED YOUR ART? LOOKING AT YOU TAY TAY JACQUELINE MALEY Columnist and senior journalist OPINION AUSTRALIAN SOCCER SAM KERR IS THE LATEST VICTIM OF AUSTRALIA’S NED KELLY SYNDROME NICK BRYANT Journalist and author Advertisement JUST IN * Just now LIVE NRL ROUND 2 LIVE: SHARKS ENFORCER SET FOR MILESTONE BEFORE EELS-PANTHERS GRUDGE MATCH * 3 minutes ago LIVE AFL 2024 ROUND ONE LIVE UPDATES: COLLINGWOOD MAGPIES UNFURL PREMIERSHIP FLAG, TAKE ON SYDNEY SWANS AT MCG * 5 minutes ago BREAKING NINE’S NEWS BOSS RESIGNS AFTER SPECULATION OVER HIS ABSENCE * 6 minutes ago ‘LET’S LEARN FROM THIS’: COLLINS ON ‘HONEST’ DISCUSSIONS AT ROOSTERS Advertisement WESTERN AUSTRALIA 10 images CITY LIFE TENNIS CHAMP SHARES HIS TIPS AS PERTH CELEBRATES LAUNCH OF NINE’S NEWEST GAME SHOW Tennis legend, media all-rounder and now host of Nine’s hit game show Tipping Point Australia, Todd Woodbridge, was joined by local media and clients at a special dinner at Santini. FLOODS ‘I’M ECSTATIC’: WA POLICE DETAIL RESCUE EFFORT FOR FAMILY STUCK IN FLOOD-RAVAGED REGION Seven people who spent three days stranded in Western Australia’s flood-ravaged remote outback have been rescued by helicopter and returned to Kalgoorlie, ending a mammoth multi-agency recovery effort. EXCLUSIVE LOCAL GOVERNMENT BASIL’S NORTHBRIDGE APARTMENT AT CENTRE OF NEW SPAT WITH STATE GOVERNMENT Women’s Interests Minister Sue Ellery has accused Perth Lord Mayor Basil Zempilas of failing to disclose an impartiality interest. UPDATED POLICE WA’S COVID ERA-STYLE POLICE BORDERS HAVE STOPPED JUST 5 GRAMS OF CANNABIS In the eight months since border search powers were made available to police, they have been used just seven times. NUCLEAR ENERGY ‘MAKES NO SENSE’: WHITBY LASHES NUCLEAR POWER WA’s Energy Minister Reece Whitby is no fan of nuclear energy, deeming it “expensive, slow, inflexible and unpopular”. Nor is the leader of the WA Liberals. 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RENEWABLES WHY AUSTRALIA HAS APPROVED JUST TWO WIND FARMS IN 15 MONTHS CABINET PAPER RELEASE STAYING THE COURSE: HOWARD ROLLED DEFENCE PLAN TO CUT IRAQ PRESENCE ISRAELI-PALESTINIAN CONFLICT GOVERNMENT LASHED OVER ‘BUNGLING’ OF GAZA VISAS BUSINESS GAMING & WAGERING TABCORP SHARES PLUNGE AFTER CEO’S SHOCK EXIT The gambling giant’s shares slumped as the regulator responds to allegations of a sexually inappropriate remark by its chief executive. CRYPTOCURRENCIES THIS AUSTRALIAN SCIENTIST SAYS HE INVENTED BITCOIN. A JUDGE DISAGREES SPACE ‘THE SHIP HAS BEEN LOST’: SPACEX’S GIANT ROCKET TRAVELLED HALFWAY AROUND WORLD THEN VANISHED UPDATED WORLD MARKETS ASX SINKS AFTER WALL STREET LOSES GROUND ON NEGATIVE ECONOMIC DATA WORLD CHINA RELATIONS TRUMP LAUNCHED CIA COVERT OPERATION TO MAKE CHINA ‘CHASE GHOSTS’ Reuters spoke to three former officials who detailed the operation approved by Donald Trump while president. Such operations tend to outlast presidents. 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