Immediately before stabbing attack police received triple-zero call from person believed to be the 16-year-old Follow our Australia news live blog for latest updates Get our morning and afternoon news emails, free app or daily news podcast The Perth teenager shot dead by police in a suburban car park after he stabbed a man rang police before the assault, warning he was going to “commit acts of violence” and told friends he was going “in the path of jihad”. The 16-year-old teenager, who cannot be named, was shot dead in the car park of Bunnings Warehouse in Willetton, in Perth’s south, on Sat ..read more

Western Australian police say they have shot and killed a teenager who allegedly attacked a man in a Perth car park. Police shot the 16-year-old after he approached the police with a knife and tasers failed to halt him. The teenager had mental health issues, was known to police and had been involved in a countering violent extremism (CVE) program since 2022 when he was 13, the commissioner said Perth stabbing: police shoot dead boy, 16, after alleged attack that has ‘hallmarks’ of terror incident ..read more

Independent panel made ‘wrong decision’ to advise that Majid Jamshidi Doukoshkan did not need ankle bracelet before alleged assault on Ninette Simmons, PM says Follow our Australia news live blog for latest updates Get our morning and afternoon news emails, free app or daily news podcast Anthony Albanese has blamed the community protection board and prosecutors for a former immigration detainee having his ankle bracelet removed and receiving bail before he and two other men allegedly assaulted a 73-year-old Perth woman. The prime minister told Channel Seven’s Sunrise it was the “wrong decisi ..read more

Ninette Simons, 73, tells immigration minister Andrew Giles she and 76-year-old husband Phillip feel they have been let down Get our morning and afternoon news emails, free app or daily news podcast A Perth woman allegedly assaulted by a freed immigration detainee has asked the immigration minister why the man’s ankle monitoring bracelet was removed weeks before the alleged attack. Ninette Simons, 73, and her 76-year-old husband, Phillip, were allegedly violently assaulted by three men during a home invasion on 19 April, during which Ninette was beaten and $200,000 in jewellery was stolen. S ..read more

Former detainee accused of Perth assault was one of 154 men released after high court ruled indefinite detention unlawful Follow our Australia news live blog for latest updates Get our morning and afternoon news emails, free app or daily news podcast A federal minister has admitted the government is “deeply concerned” after a 73-year-old Perth woman was assaulted, allegedly by a recently freed immigration detainee during a violent home invasion. The man was one of three people arrested over the alleged assault and robbery of Ninette Simmons earlier in April. Sign up for Guardian Australia’s ..read more

This blog is now closed Get our morning and afternoon news emails, free app or daily news podcast Dai Le says funding for domestic violence prevention more important than a royal commission Asked about social media platform Twitter and Elon Musk’s claims that efforts to ensure a video of a stabbing of an Assyrian priest be taken down globally would constitute a threat to “free speech”, Dai Le says supports the government’s effort but has concerns about potential overreach: Honestly, how can we not stop images of violence? What I think government needs to do is to get the funding and target t ..read more

Video shows trees and shrubs along Western Australia's south-west coastline turning brown after Perth recorded it hottest and driest six months since records began. There were similar scenes in the state's south-west eucalypt forests in 2010 and 2011 – a major die-back event that prompted more than a dozen studies. Drought-hit forests were hit by fire years later ..read more

A fierce storm and flash flooding struck parts of Perth on Friday after a six-month dry spell, stranding people in submerged cars, and causing part of a shopping centre roof to collapse. Western Australia's emergency services said State Emergency Service volunteers had been going 'flat out' to help fire crews with rescues. There had been about 50 calls for help over the afternoon Cars submerged and shopping centre roof collapses as severe storm hits Perth ..read more

The lauded burns pioneer and plastic surgeon on a ‘paradigm shifting’ project, coping with tragedy and the patients she will never forget Get our weekend culture and lifestyle email Read the rest of Guardian Australia’s Walk with … interview series here When Fiona Wood moved to Perth from the UK in 1987, she was drawn to its wildlife. “Intrinsically, it’s the most beautiful place,” she says, as we wander along Matilda Bay beneath a canopy of foliage, the gnarled trunks of moreton bay figs and cape lilacs with their bursts of yellow berries. “When I first came here, I thought, ‘I can see myse ..read more

Reynolds said she proposed a fortnight’s pause in the defamation case after ‘a tiring and difficult day’ of discussions on Tuesday Follow our Australia news live blog for latest updates Get our morning and afternoon news emails, free app or daily news podcast Mediation between Linda Reynolds, Brittany Higgins and David Sharaz is due to resume in coming weeks after initial talks failed, the supreme court of Western Australia has said. Reynolds said she had proposed a fortnight’s pause in her defamation case after what she called a “a tiring and difficult day” of discussions on Tuesday. Higgin ..read more