Perth
Gina Rinehart inked ‘death warrant’ deals for children’s trust fund, court told
Gina Rinehart inked “death warrant” deals for the lucrative trust fund left to her four children, stripping it of its mining assets, wrestling back its stake in her company and leaving it “frozen in time”.
- by Jesinta Burton
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International property developer reveals plans for old Subiaco Oval site
The first residential development site at the iconic Subiaco Oval has been acquired for just over $22 million.
- by Holly Thompson
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Courts
‘Serial Perth shopping centre change room pervert’ arrested by child abuse squad
WA Police allege the man exposed himself or committed obscene acts in front of shoppers at five major shopping centres in the past six months.
- by Heather McNeill and Ezra Holt
This booming Perth suburb wants its own university campus
“If you look at the census data there are a lot of families and young children moving to the region, who in five to 10 years’ time will be looking into tertiary education.”
- by Holly Thompson
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The Reporter
Inside story: How a bikie debt collector brought down a Perth pillar of parliament
Small town, big connections: How a speed junkie was running Perth’s parliament, how one man brought him down, and how this reporter was finally unleashed.
- by Gary Adshead
‘Leave me alone’: Lang Hancock’s final years under microscope in royalties case
After a four-year row over his dying wishes, a gravely ill Lang Hancock penned a letter to his daughter Gina Rinehart pleading for her to leave him alone to live the rest of his life in peace, a court has been told.
- by Jesinta Burton
Peta went fishing on an Albany cliff with her husband in 1997. She has not been seen since.
According to her husband, the young Albany mother of two small children told him she was going to the toilet. Then she vanished into thin air.
- by Heather McNeill
Updated
Roger Cook
WA seeks bigger voice in Canberra with new ‘embassy’
The office would work like the state’s overseas trade missions and would provide a permanent base for government officials and advocacy groups on “team WA” to “disrupt the thinking in Canberra that holds us back”.
- by Hamish Hastie
Opinion
West Coast Eagles
Mesmerising to witness: How Nic Naitanui changed the game forever
Remember his first goal against Hawthorn in 2009, in a torrential downpour with the game on the line? We didn’t know then, but he was going to be a champion.
- by Brendan Foster
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Courts
Lang Hancock accused Gina Rinehart of trying to have Rose Porteous deported, court told
Mining pioneer Lang Hancock threatened to remove his daughter from the empire for “disloyalty” over her alleged behaviour towards his new wife, the court heard.
- by Jesinta Burton
The Reporter podcast: the story of T3 (Part I)
This week on The Reporter podcast, Gary Adshead tells Michael Thomson how he scored a clandestine interview with a secret operative working to sting corrupt police.