Paige Taylor
The Australian
Western Australia, Australia
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Afghan people-smuggler Sayed Abbas jailed in Perth
A man who sold seats on asylum boats to some of the more than 50,000 people who arrived by boat at Christmas Island during the Rudd-Gillard-Rudd government has been sentenced to 12 years in a Perth jail. → Read More
A psychological illusion is making people think they are thinner than they are
Our brains trick us when we gain weight, and researchers have learned the fascinating reason. → Read More
Lloyd Rayney wins $600K defamation suit against the state
Lloyd Rayney has won his defamation suit against the WA government. → Read More
Woman dies after being mauled by dog in Perth
Perth police trying to reach the body of a woman suspected to have been mauled to death in Perths southeast yesterday were forced to call rangers to deal with a dog that stood between them and the deceased, a Perth council has revealed. → Read More
Lloyd Rayney ‘learned wife was missing in phone call to work’
A lead detective on the case of murdered Supreme Court registrar Corryn Rayney has declined to acknowledge in court that her husband learned of her disappearance in a phonecall he received at work. → Read More
Professor and wife awarded $1m for unlawful imprisonment
A Perth law school professor and his wife have been awarded more than $1 million in compensation, eight years after police unlawfully imprisoned them, tasered them and battered them as they walked home from the husband’s birthday dinner. → Read More
Tile twist in case of body in a suitcase Annabelle Chen
Distinctive ceramic tiles found inside a suitcase with the body of wealthy Perth artist Annabelle Chen match those inside a house she sold seven years ago, reports the suburban newspaper where Ms Chen lived. → Read More
Federal election 2016: Hastie slams Lib HQ for failure to connect
A rising star of the Liberal party has joined in blunt criticisms of the campaign focus on innovation and company tax cuts, saying he threw away daily talking points issued by Liberal headquarters because they did not resonate with “everyday Australians”. → Read More
Cold case review fails to name killer of Corryn Rayney
West Australian police commissioner Karl O’Callaghan has revealed his disappointment that a year-long cold case review of one of the state’s most high-profile murders, that of Supreme Court registrar Corryn Rayney, has failed to reveal who killed her nine years ago. → Read More
Bali trip mother faces court over kids left at home alone
Five months pregnant and separated from the two young children she is accused of leaving home alone while she flew to Bali to renew her visa, a 28-year-old Chinese national yesterday appeared before a Perth magistrate, charged with child neglect. → Read More
Second fatal attack in five days
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Where suicide lurks in kids’ minds as an easy way out
Last Sunday a group of children had been playing together for most of the day when one of them, the quiet and reserved 10-year-old Ariana Mangolamara, walked out of the house alone. → Read More
WA community in shock after suicide of Aboriginal child
Police in the far north Kimberley of Western Australia believe the death of a 10-year-old Aboriginal girl in the remote community of Looma on Sunday was a suicide. → Read More
Pintubi cat hunters to take skills across Australia
An elite team of cat hunters from the Great Sandy Desert is in demand across Australia and may be deployed to other areas urgent requiring predator control, according to an ecologist who supports their work. → Read More
Pilbara reels from scourge of methamphetamines
WHEN Alfred Barker was a teenager, his uncle was fatally struck by a car while wandering drunk through the streets of Port Hedland. → Read More
Partner of woman who died in custody ‘shut out’ from investigation
THE partner of a young Aboriginal woman who last month died in custody in Western Australia has accused authorities of shutting him out of the investigation into her death. → Read More
Julieka Dhu’s agony before death: new witness backs claim from lock-up
A SECOND witness from the Pilbara watch-house where 22-year-old Aboriginal woman Julieka Dhu was locked up for unpaid fines has supported claims she was in pain and begging for help from police in the days before she died. → Read More
Merged beauty of sea, land and sky takes us beyond eye of the beholder
TROY Casswell is a Gold Coast structural engineer who taught himself to merge photographs while playing around with some landscapes he took during a trip to Great Keppel Island 10 years ago. → Read More
Buswell finally quits politics after one too many scandals
WESTERN Australia’s Lazarus-like politician Troy Buswell has quit parliament six months after he was forced to resign as treasurer over a calamitous drive home from an evening of drinking with Perth’s elite. → Read More
Ports chief Kerry Sanderson finds berth as WA governor
Western Australia’s first female governor learned some of her formidable strategic skills during 17 years of dealings with the militant Maritime Union of Australia. → Read More