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Man knocked off e-scooter and bashed in Adelaide
4+ hour, 21+ min ago (38+ words) WAtoday A man has head injuries after a thief knocked him off his e-scooter and stole it, leaving him unconscious. Updated August 16, 2026 — 6:35pm,first published 6:20pm...
Relief for families struggling with skyrocketing power prices
5+ hour, 11+ min ago (27+ words) WAtoday An Australian inventor has built an AI tool to help slash household bills. August 16, 2026 — 5:31pm...
Gun buyback deal launched
6+ hour ago (31+ words) WAtoday More than a quarter of a million guns will be surrendered and destroyed in Australia's largest gun buyback in three decades. August 16, 2026 — 4:41pm...
Labor marked down on migration as delayed visa shake-up approaches
6+ hour, 43+ min ago (1224+ words) August 16, 2026 — 3:59pm Voters have condemned the Albanese government’s handling of immigration policy, with 54 per cent agreeing the government is running the portfolio in an “unplanned and unmanaged way” even as Labor prepares to unveil tougher rules on visa overstayers and dodgy…...
Western Australia’s largest modular social housing to be rolled out in the Wheatbelt
7+ hour, 44+ min ago (551+ words) August 16, 2026 — 2:58pm The state’s largest modular community housing project is on its way to regional Western Australia. Fifty-four seniors-only social homes worth around $30 million will be built across 17 different sites in the Wheatbelt, with construction set to kick off later this…...
Hawaii escapes the worst of Hurricane Lala but flood risks remain
8+ hour, 44+ min ago (661+ words) August 16, 2026 — 1:58pm Hurricane Lala skirted Hawaii’s Big Island without making landfall and is expected to gradually weaken after lashing the region with strong winds and drenching rain that flooded roads and turned rivers into raging torrents. The possibility the island could…...
School leaders must wake up to a toxic culture
11+ hour, 50+ min ago (532+ words) August 16, 2026 — 10:52am In 2021, as part of the Teach Us Consent campaign I launched, we gathered more than 500 testimonies that alleged sexual assault by current or former Scots or Cranbrook students in Sydney. These were among 7000 testimonies alleging sexual assault from schools…...
‘Wrong spot, wrong time’: Gunshot shatters couple’s regional anniversary getaway
9+ hour, 5+ min ago (619+ words) August 16, 2026 — 1:37pm A one-year wedding anniversary camping trip turned into a nightmare for Lacey and Max Ditchfield after their campervan was shot at in the middle of the night. The couple were asleep at a campsite north-east of Geraldton at Mullewa…...
Under heavy skies, Alice Springs comes together to heal
10+ hour, 25+ min ago (756+ words) August 16, 2026 — 12:17pm Alice Springs was a delicate patchwork of emotion at the weekend. At one end of the town, wails and sobs sounded out from the side of the Stuart Highway, as hundreds of mourners gathered in pink to farewell Kumanjayi…...
‘Six a day’: WA public school lockdowns double as safety fears mount
10+ hour, 59+ min ago (629+ words) August 16, 2026 — 11:43am Every school day in Western Australia last year, at least six public schools went into lockdown. New figures show that the number of school lockdowns more than doubled over an eight-year period with 1,327 lockdowns reported in 2025 compared to 578 in…...