1+ min ago (385+ words) Tom has covered business, markets and economics for more than a decade in Australia. He previously worked at The Australian Financial Review for nearly five years as a Markets Reporter & Commentator. Prior to that worked in equities management at the Bank of New York Mellon in London. Shares in counter-drone technology business DroneShield surged 12 per cent on Tuesday after it signed a $5.2 million contract win with a European military customer The bounce followed a tough month of share market losses punctuated by disclosures that chief executive Oleg Vornik sold his entire shareholding worth $50 million while two other directors dumped $20 million in stock The Sydney-based manufacturer negotiated a a contract with a European reseller that has worked with DroneShield over the past three years and has previously sold more than $70 million worth of the company's equipment "The contract is for handheld…...

14+ min ago (246+ words) Hannah Whitehead works as the rural journalist for the Narrogin Observer and The Great Southern Herald since 2024. She is the sole journalist based in the Southern Weatbelt and surrounding country towns. Her role includes sports, criminal, political, emergency and community reporting. Narrogin detectives are investigating a suspicious house fire in Wagin earlier this month that left the home completely destroyed In a social media post on Tuesday, Narrogin detectives called for information into the suspicious fire A Department of Emergency Services spokesperson said it received a triple-0 call about 3am alerting crews to a house fire on Omdurman Street, north of the town centre, on November 16 Six volunteer fire and rescue units from Wagin, Narrogin and Dumbleyung arrived at the scene within 15 minutes of the report to find the home fully engulfed in flames The blaze was extinguished in about an…...

25+ min ago (25+ words) Testing has confirmed a deadly strain of bird flu has reached an Australian sub-Antarctic island, after scientists raised the alarm after unusual seal deaths....

29+ min ago (53+ words) The voice of the bush since 1885, Countryman provides WA's best and most comprehensive agricultural news, with dedicated sections for news, livestock, wool, opinion, machinery, real estate, and social pictures. Our weekly newspaper offers up-to-date coverage of news and events, providing a powerful voice for those living in country WA....

30+ min ago (26+ words) The West Australian is a leading news source in Perth and WA. Breaking local and world news from sport and business to lifestyle and current affairs....

34+ min ago (477+ words) The Albanese Government has been forced to retreat on a "lazy" plan to slash the default speed limit on non-signposted regional roads to as low as 70km/h. Under the proposal aimed at reducing the national road toll in regional and outback Australia, the Federal Government proposed speed limits on sealed and unsealed roads be limited to a range of 70km/h to 100km/hr. The limits drew the ire of the road industry, which said road safety would be better improved through upgrades and maintenance. The proposal was scrapped on November 21. In a sign of the concern, more than 11,000 submissions were made to a regulatory impact analysis into the proposal. Submissions were due to close on October 27, but were given an 11th-hour reprieve when the deadline was extended to November 10. A communique from a meeting of Infrastructure and Transport Ministers acknowledged widespread concern…...

41+ min ago (29+ words) A tradesman says he is still "haunted" by the sound of a workmate "laughing sadistically" after he drove over him and severed his leg in an methamphetamine-induced rage....

46+ min ago (304+ words) Mitchell Woodcock is a sports reporter at The West Australian and Sunday Times who covers a variety of sports including AFL, WAFL, netball, tennis and hockey. Raised in Perth, Mitchell started as a reporter in Bunbury before becoming the Bunbury Herald-South Western Times sports reporter over a five-year span. He's no longer a part of West Coast's AFL set-up, but Callum Jamieson will return to the Eagles' WAFL side next season The West Australian can reveal the utility will again line up in the blue-and-gold at local level next year, joining former Collingwood forward Ash Johnson and Kyambram teenager Archie Watt in signing for the WAFL Eagles in 2026 Jamieson, 25, played 17 AFL games for West Coast after being drafted with pick No.49 in 2019 out of Claremont, but battled injury for much of his career He spent the majority of his time…...

54+ min ago (337+ words) Craig O'Donoghue is part of The West Australian's sports writing team. He joined The West Australian in 2000 and spent 2013-14 working in the Melbourne bureau. He now focuses on AFL and basketball. Fremantle draftee Tobyn Murray has revealed Geelong forward Shaun Mannagh played a crucial role in mentoring and encouraging him after he was overlooked by all clubs in 2023 Twenty-year-old Murray's AFL dream finally came true last week when the Dockers drafted him at pick 40 The Victorian spent the last two seasons playing for Geelong's VFL team after initially not getting drafted and took inspiration from the number of Cats who had been selected as mature age recruits He said Mannagh's arrival after being drafted from the VFL as a 26-year-old instantly gave him someone to look up to "He was obviously drafted at 26 so he missed out on eight years…...

58+ min ago (26+ words) The West Australian is a leading news source in Perth and WA. Breaking local and world news from sport and business to lifestyle and current affairs....