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To overnight news now and two cars at the same business in Mirrabooka have been torched over the weekend, one day apart.
WA Police say the incidents occurred outside an office on Chesterfield Road, one at 9pm on Saturday, and one at 7.20pm Sunday.
Firefighters extinguished both blazes and the arson squad is at the scene this morning.
The vehicles sustained fire and smoke damage, and had smashed windows.
Anyone with information is asked to contact Crime Stoppers.
Detectives are this morning searching for a brazen thug who left a Perth father with multiple broken bones in his face after a late night attack.
The victim told 9 News Perth he considers himself lucky to be alive after being set upon around 2am on Saturday morning while walking along Challenger Avenue in Parmelia.
Here’s what’s making news nationally and around the world:
- A policy clash on tax and housing has dramatically reset the federal election campaign after Labor and the Coalition unveiled more than $24 billion in combined pledges that could supercharge house prices.
- Australia has been too slow to rule out “faddish but unproven” maths teaching methods in schools despite persistent underperformance and a third of students failing to meet basic maths standards, a new report says.
- A man and a teenager have been charged after a nine-year-old boy related to them was accidentally shot through the neck and killed at a farm near Goulburn in NSW.
- Former defence minister turned lobbyist Christopher Pyne says the biggest threats to the AUKUS pact are “naysayers” and a lethargic defence establishment, but admits the $368 billion program lacks a broad social licence and has only qualified support from the Trump administration.
- And China has suspended exports of a wide range of critical minerals and magnets, threatening to choke off supplies of components central to automakers, aerospace manufacturers, semiconductor companies and military contractors around the world.
Good morning readers, and thank you for joining us on this Monday morning.
Making headlines in Perth, and for the second time in days, the wind was Gout Gout’s friend and foe during the Australian Athletics Championships in Perth yesterday.
The teenager broke 20 seconds for the 200 metres with a tailwind that was just a push too strong for it to legally count.
And local Peter Bol is back in the form of his life after breaking the national 800-metre record in a statement performance that declared he was a contender on the world stage once again.
Meanwhile, the WA government’s new move to crack down on Chevron’s chemical controls in the state’s north-west goes nowhere near far enough, say environmental advocates.
And the BGC fallout continues, with group of frustrated customers taking their fight to the top, firing off a harrowing letter to Premier Roger Cook in a desperate plea for help with endless construction delays.
In business news, West Australian business heavyweight Peter Coleman could return to the helm of embattled hydrogen hopeful Infinite Green Energy under an 11th-hour plan to drag it out of administration.
Stay with us as we bring you the news of the day, as it happens across Perth and WA.