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Boyfriend who snuck out of mandatory COVID-19 hotel quarantine to visit girlfriend could be JAILED

Jonathan David faced Perth Magistrates Court on Tuesday where he pleaded guilty to two counts of failing to comply with a direction.




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Perth tradie who broke mandatory hotel quarantine to visit his girlfriend is jailed

A tradesman from Perth who 'selfishly' broke mandatory hotel quarantine rules to visit his girlfriend has become the first Australian to be jailed for the offence.




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Chinese export market opens again as Australia sends 500 tonnes of rock lobster from Perth 

The outbreak triggered an abrupt stop to rock lobster exports in January when China scrambled to lockdown its borders




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Lorraine Lewis was hospitalised for coronavirus in and wrongly labelled 'do not resuscitate'

Lorraine Lewis and her partner Stephen Taylor had returned to Australia on a mercy flight after sailing around the Italian coast on a Costa Victoria cruise.




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Daughter who covered up mother's murder freed from jail and could inherit millions from her estate

Tiffany Wan has been released on parole after serving three years in jail for accessory to her mother Annabel Chen's 'body-in-a-suitcase' murder in Perth in 2016.




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Billionaire Kerry Stokes given an exemption from having to quarantine after arriving into Australia

Mr Stokes was granted the exception on medical grounds by Western Australia Police when he and his wife Christine Simpson Stokes returned home to Perth from the US on April 8.




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Qantas slams airport for blockade that saw it use bulldozers to block in Virgin Australia planes

Coming to its embattled rival's defence, just days after it entered voluntary administration, Qantas called the move 'ridiculous' and 'extraordinary'.




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Footage of mates fishing on Western Australian rocks emerges week before pair hit by a deadly wave

Footage taken the week before Kristoffee Salazar and Romero Pizon were swept off rocks about 260km south of Perth showed them laughing and chatting as they fished on the same outcrop.




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Skeleton remains found in remote property by a man cutting down trees in search for missing woman 

A man cutting down trees at a property off Tea Tree Road in Bindoon, 80 kilometres north of Perth, made the grim discovery on Sunday.




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Western Australian has second straight day with ZERO new coronavirus cases

It is the second consecutive day that WA has found no new cases of the disease, but residents were warned of a potential spike when hundreds of Australians arrive from overseas.




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Rodents are invading people's homes because there's no bins to raid at closed restaurants and cafes

Rat infestations are cropping up around Perth's suburbs as the rodents shift to residential areas to fill their bellies.




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Daughter of billionaire Andrew 'Twiggy' Forrest says migrants exposed to COVID-19 have been let down

Modern slavery watchdog Walk Free Foundation is urging businesses and governments to help reduce COVID-19 risks for vulnerable workers.




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Robber who bashed and hog-tied a gun shop owner during an elaborate heist is jailed for seven years

Serdar Baycan admitted to raiding Barry & Sons Firearms in Beckenham, Perth, where he stole 100 firearms, worth $206,000, on September 4, 2019.




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Australian city Perth 'willing to host remaining Premier League games'

Current plans under Project Restart could have games held at neutral venues in England, however there have also been calls to hold the rest of the season abroad.




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Cattle station worker is jailed for bribing girls with cigarettes and molesting them as they slept

Laurie Yeeda, 52, will go to jail for nine and a half years after pleading guilty to raping and abusing four children in West Australia's East Kimberley region between 1994 and 2017.




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Perth Ocean Reef dog attack where girl's pet Indy is mauled to death by canine owner fake details

A school girl and her family are devastated after their little pet dog Indy was savagely mauled to death by an 80-kilo canine while its owner 'got away with murder'.




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Mum reveals how she makes oozing chocolate eclairs using Kmart's new $29 sausage roll maker

A brilliant Australian home baker has shared how to make tasty chocolate eclairs using a $29 Kmart sausage roll maker. The woman shared the recipe on Facebook and was praised by others.




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Females reveal the top two physical traits they find most attractive in a man

A dating expert has polled a group of more than 200 Australian women about what their two favourite physical qualities are in a man, and the results aren't as obvious as you might think.




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Justin Narrier jailed after stabbing nurse, 55, at Royal Perth Hospital with makeshift shiv

Justin Trent Narrier, 31, attacked the 55-year-old nurse during her night shift at the Royal Perth Hospital around 1.50am on May 12 last year.




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'I don't do diplomacy': Tony Abbott back to manning the fire hoses as he waits for next career move

Tony Abbott is wondering what to do next after losing the parliamentary seat he held for 25 years to a former Olympic skier in last month's election.




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Accountant, 62, who poked a supporter of Tony Abbott with a corkscrew avoids jail 

A Sydney accountant who used a corkscrew to poke a Tony Abbott supporter has avoided jail time. 




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Tony Abbott gives rousing Brexit speech in London, saying Britain does not need EU

In a jingoistic rallying cry at centre-right think tank Policy Exchange, Tony Abbott fawned over Britain's historical achievements as he argued the country did not need the EU.




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Tony Abbott is blasted for visiting convicted paedophile Cardinal George Pell in jail

Tony Abbott has reportedly visited convicted paedophile George Pell in a Melbourne prison on Monday.




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Former PM Tony Abbott is seen fighting fires in south Sydney while Scott Morrison relaxes in Hawaii

Mr Abbott, who has volunteered with the Rural Fire Service for more than a decade, was pictured at the Bargo BP service station wearing the yellow uniform of his Davidson squadron.




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Tony Abbott praised for battling bushfires again as people call for Scott Morrison to be sacked

Former Prime Minister Tony Abbott has been spotted in his firefighting gear battling blazes south of Sydney for the second time this week, as Scott Morrison faces criticism for his family holiday.




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Misbehaviour review: This is a film that raises complex questions 

We live in seismic times for the women's movement.




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Phone shop worker is electrocuted by mobile phones he was charging with extension cable in Thailand

Kanchamaiporn Saithong, 35, was found sprawled on the floor of his room lying on top of the two phones after he failed to turn up for work in the city of Chonburi.




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Two drunk Thai men fall over as they try to fight each other

Footage shows the neighbours - an elderly man and another who appears to be in his thirties - trading feeble punches on a street in Buriram, north-eastern Thailand.




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Train smashes into truck stuck on level crossing

Pitak Tabsuk, 35, saw his truck smashed in half by a passing train at a level-crossing in Nakhon Pathom, Thailand. Its left wheel had been jammed.




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Tiger pounces on squealing piglet after Thai zoo puts two pigs in big cat's enclosure

WARNING: DISTRESSING CONTENT Si Racha Zoo in eastern Thailand put on the 'tiger chasing piglet show' so visitors could watch the the tiny animals being chased by female tiger Saimai.




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The 'world first' transparent jungle bubbles in Thailand that let guests elephant-watch and stargaze

The pods, called Jungle Bubbles, have been installed at the five-star Anantara Golden Triangle Elephant Camp & Resort in Chiang Saen, northern Thailand.




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Josh Taylor insists he will not let alcohol derail his golden future after abusing nightclub bouncer

Britain's No 1 boxer Josh Taylor has vowed to never again let alcohol jeopardise that hard-earned status nor imperil his golden future.




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Giraffe that escaped from truck transporting it to a zoo in Thailand is found dead in swamp

WARNING GRAPHIC CONTENT: A giraffe was found dead today in swamp in Chachoengsao province,Thailand(left), just two days after it escaped from a truck bound for a zoo.




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Tangled love life! Two mating king cobras caught after getting tangled in a wire fence in Thailand

The footage was recorded in Phang Nga, southern Thailand, on Wednesday morning. The 8-foot-long male snake was found with his 7-foot-long female counterpart before they were eventually freed.




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Exotic spas in Britain: Homegrown retreats are giving Britons the experience of a foreign holiday

The Good Spa Guide reports a steady increase in UK spa-break bookings in general but particularly in breaks offering a taste of Thailand or a massage Moroccan-style.




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Thai medics claim to have cured coronavirus patient in 48 hours

Medics in Thailand tested the drug mix on a patient in a 'serious condition' with the disease and within 48 hours they were declared disease-free. The drugs are normally used for HIV and influenza treatment.




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'Cyclops' puppy is hailed as lucky by Thai villagers as owners name him after one-eyed Minion Kevin

Puppy Kevin was born on Sunday in Chachoengsao, central Thailand. Despite only having one eye the newborn dog appears to be otherwise healthy and is being bottle fed by his doting owners.




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Jilted husband hacks off love rival's PENIS and stabs him to death in Thailand 

Amornrak Jitkoh, 45, was furious after discovering local policeman Jumrus Doljue, 57, had been sleeping with his fortune teller wife, Nai.




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Free-runner leaps between scales Bangkok's 600ft Ghost Tower in hair-raising stunt

The GoPro footage was recorded by Oliver Nordin in January after he and a friend snuck past security to gain access to the abandoned skyscraper in Thailand's capital.




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Puppy looks like an evil movie villain due to his raised black eyebrow 

Lucky, the mixed two-year-old Chihuahua, was born in Bangkok, Thailand, and with an incredibly prominent, jet-black, raised eyebrow over his eye, he's often mistaken for a Disney villain.




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Reveller, 22, is left with burns after spilling a flaming tequila shot down her face in Thailand

Kamonwan Angsumadisron, 22, was drinking with friends in Phitsanulok, Thailand, when she spilled a 'sugarburn' shot down her face and was left with burns.




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Thailand's health minister says Western tourists should be kicked out

Anutin Charnvirakul's outburst came as Thailand faced steep losses over a drop in visitors from China. The death toll in China from the coronavirus has risen to 811.




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Skydiver plunges to his death in horror accident after parachute `fails to fully open'

Stefan Eiriksson Andersen, 30, from Denmark, jumped from the plane after it took off from an airfield in the Sri Racha district of Chon Buri, eastern Thailand on Saturday afternoon.




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Dead 'Western' tourist is found floating in the sea with a rock tied around his neck off of Thailand

WARNING: GRAPHIC CONTENT The man, whose nationality is not yet known, was found yesterday afternoon. Shocked locals called police in the crime-ridden Sin City resort.




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'Drug dealer extradited from Thailand collapses in Oxfordshire jail with suspected coronavirus'

Mark Rumble, 31, from Oxfordshire, was sent back to the UK from Thailand to face charges of a conspiracy to supply class A drugs and collapsed in prison days later.




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Two British prisoners sent home from Thailand do NOT have coronavirus, tests confirm 

Tests have revealed that Mark Rumble (pictured, with boxer Ricky Hatton) and another prisoner at HMP Bullingdon in Oxfordshire do not have coronavirus.




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Opera-singing bodybuilder says he will give himself up over murder of Brit dad in Thailand

Roger Bullman, 54, from Oslo, in Norway, went on the run after killing British IT expert Amitpal Singh Bajaj, 34, in his Phuket hotel room on August 21 following a row over his yodelling on the balcony.




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The Maldives takes the top spot in Kuoni's luxury destinations chart - but Bali is on the rise again

Tourism operator Kuoni has released its top 10 best-selling luxury destinations for 2020, and there are a few surprises on the list...




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Female spectator is gored at a bullfight in Thailand

Khun Nam, 57, required first aid for an inch-long cut to her face after being charged by a bull that had broken out of the ring and into the crowd during a fight in southern Thailand on Monday.




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Man is electrocuted after using headphones connected to his charging mobile phone in Thailand

WARNING GRAPHIC CONTENT: Supakhet Saraboon, 35, was discovered sprawled across his bed in Phra Nakhon Si Ayutthaya, central Thailand, on Monday night.