Despite building and selling-out 17 designer apartment complexes, with more than a dozen other major projects on the way, developer Nightingale hasn’t made a single red cent. And Dan McKenna, the organisation’s chief executive, thinks the unconventional model could help address Australia’s crippling housing crisis. “In a nutshell, we’re aContinue Reading
Four more people have been found near far north Western Australia less than 24 hours after a boatload of suspected asylum seekers were discovered by border officials. The ABC first reported that 33 people were found on Christmas Island on Friday morning after their boat was damaged in poor weather.Continue Reading
A man has been arrested after Perth’s biggest shopping centre was plunged into lockdown Friday. About 3.30pm a fight between two men broke out and police were called to the Westfield Carousel complex in Cannington. Police later recovered a knife after a 20-year-old man was injured. There was uncertainty aboutContinue Reading
The dazzling southern lights have been captured in Australian skies as the auroras Australis and Borealis wowed photographers and stargazers. The Bureau of Meteorology had issued an elevated geomagnetic storm warning on Friday to arrive about 8pm AEST, which resulted in bright Auroras being visible at unusually low latitudes (closerContinue Reading
The NSW parliament will apologise to people discriminated against by laws which criminalised homosexuality. Just 40 years ago the NSW parliament amended the Crimes Act 1900 to decriminalise homosexuality. One of the many law changes removed reference to anal sex between people from the bestiality section of the Crimes Act.Continue Reading
Baja California in Mexico’s northwest was thrust into the spotlight after the deaths of Perth brothers Callum and Jake Robinson, with local protests over a history of violence and disappearance challenging its glossy surf tourist image. When the deaths of the two Perth vacationers and their friend Jack Carter RhoadContinue Reading
The bodies of murdered Perth brothers Callum and Jake Robinson have been moved into the United States, beginning their journey home after they were killed in an attempted carjacking in Baja California. The brother’s deaths sparked an outpouring of grief after they disappeared on April 27 while on a surfingContinue Reading
Two people have been taken to hospital and multiple homes have been damaged after a tornado hit the city of Bunbury in Western Australia’s south on Friday afternoon. Multiple ambulances attended the Bunbury Police and Community Youth Centre, with a woman aged in her 30s taken to hospital with non-life-threateningContinue Reading
A rabbi has called out a Labor MP in Western Australia for “appalling” comments he made comparing a parliamentary colleague to Adolf Hitler. WA Liberal leader Libby Mettam had spoken out against a bill that would make it easier to change gender on a birth certificate and said her partyContinue Reading
The Hindu Council of Australia wants prayer rooms removed from public schools due to fears they could be used to promote “radical ideologies”. A 16-year-old boy was shot dead by police last Saturday night after he stabbed a man in the back at the Willetton Bunnings carpark, in Perth’s south.Continue Reading