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May 2026

  • A river in bushland

    Developer withdraws plans for Perth datacentre after fierce community opposition

  • A chartered aircraft, transporting six passengers who sailed on a hantavirus-hit cruise, departs from Eindhoven airport to Australia

    Australians from hantavirus cruise ship fly out of Netherlands in full PPE after plane and crew secured

  • Passengers arrive on a second evacuation flight from Tenerife at Eindhoven air base, the Netherlands. The flight, organised by Australia, carried several Australian passengers, a New Zealander and a British passenger from the cruise ship MV Hondius, which was affected by a hantavirus outbreak

    ‘Difficult’ mission to repatriate Australian hantavirus cruise passengers en route to long Perth quarantine

  • Three of the Australians are New South Wales residents, and two are from Queensland

    Australians returning from hantavirus-affected cruise to be quarantined for three weeks – video

    Live

April 2026

  • An Anzac Day service in Perth.

    Police blocked members of anti-immigration group from Perth dawn service after Anzac Day booing in eastern states

    Footage posted online shows police telling people they were being removed due to suspicion they would interrupt ceremony
  • The dawn service at Melbourne’s Shrine of Remembrance was interrupted by booing on Saturday.

    ‘Racism is a cancer’: Indigenous leaders condemn orchestrated booing at Anzac Day ceremonies

    Uncle Jack Pearson, an army captain, says heckling ‘not in the Anzac spirit’ after welcome to country booed in Sydney, Melbourne and Perth
  • Western Australian Parliament House

    Man accused of plotting WA terror attack believed assault he was planning would be worse than Bondi beach shootings, court hears

    Defence lawyer, former federal attorney general Christian Porter, says accused Jayson Joseph Michaels was ‘pretender full of big talk’

March 2026

  • The 31-year-old Warwick man has been charged after allegedly throwing a homemade bomb from a first-floor walkway onto a crowd gathered in Perth for an Invasion Day rally

    Perth man accused of attempted terror attack at Invasion Day rally to plead mental health defence

  • Flyer disturbed in Perth depicting photo of Gregory Helleren

    WA police investigate flyers targeting LGBTIQ+ community distributed to homes

February 2026

  • Hugo Flavelle smiling in a wheelchair adorned with a large circular ring of of colourful LED lights attached to the back

    ‘Let me in!’ The artist inviting you to protest outside major art venues he can’t access

  • A Carnaby's black cockatoo eating a banksia

    Property developers spark anger over plan to clear woodland home to Baudin’s and Carnaby’s black cockatoos

  • The Central law courts in Perth

    Perth court lifts suppression order on identity of man accused of attempted Invasion Day bombing

  • Light sculpture on banks of Swan River with Perth skyline in distance

    Perth festival 2026: Swan River bursts to life with a stunning trail of stories and light

  • double quotation markInvasion Day is about Indigenous people’s survival, our resilience. To strike at the heart of that is a hate crime

    Lorena Allam

  • Terrorism charge laid over alleged attempted bombing at Invasion Day rally in Perth

  • Cadel: Lungs on Legs review – a heart-pumping, hilarious portrait of an Australian cycling champion

January 2026

  • People gathered for the Invasion Day rally in Perth

    Sadness, fear and mistrust in Perth’s Indigenous community after Invasion Day bomb scare: ‘It’s really heavy for our mob over here’

  • A 31-year-old Warwick man has been charged after allegedly throwing a homemade bomb from a first-floor walkway into a crowd gathered in Perth for an Invasion Day rally

    Perth Invasion Day rally bomb incident investigated as ‘potential terrorist act’, police say

  • A member of the public alerted police, who took immediate action to protect and disperse the crowd and to isolate the suspicious item

    The moment an alleged homemade bomb was thrown at Perth Invasion Day rally – video

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  • Invasion Day rally in Perth, Western Australia, on 26 January 2026. Western Australia police have charged a 31-year-old man with committing a life-threatening act, after an alleged explosive device was thrown at an Invasion Day rally in Perth

    Perth man charged with ‘intent to harm’ after alleged homemade bomb thrown at Invasion Day rally

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