Good morning readers, and welcome to our live news blog for Wednesday, May 28.
Making headlines today is the news that Perth is the only place in Australia where houses earned more than people, with average prices surging by $95,022 over the past year.
Ray White Group senior data analyst Atom Go Tian said Perth residents seemed to have the best of both worlds.
“Not only do they earn the second-highest annual income across the country, but their houses made the biggest gains in the last 12 months,” he said.
Read the full story here.
Who’s the main breadwinner in your house? Could it be the house itself?Credit: WAtoday
Meanwhile, it has emerged in parliament that failing Collie coal miner Griffin Coal is burning through its $220 million taxpayer support fund faster than the government anticipated.
Premier Roger Cook revealed on Tuesday that the government had so far made $182.7 million worth of payments from the $220 million support package for Griffin Coal, which mines coal used to power the state 180 kilometres south of Perth.
The package was devised in December 2023 to avoid the shutdown of Griffin Coal’s mining operations in Collie, which would have cut coal supply to the privately owned Bluewaters power station and Synergy’s nearby coal-fired power stations.
Read Hamish Hastie’s report here.
And finally, a story from our courts, where a West Australian couple has been sentenced over the extreme corporal punishment they inflicted on their young daughter over 30 years ago.
The abuse included chaining the girl to a bed, whipping her with electrical wire, beating her with a piece of poly pipe and holding her underwater.
Read Rebecca Peppiatt’s report from Perth’s District Court here.
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