MYSTERIOUS: 9 | Mind Blowing Facts

Tigers roar to set up final-day Shield thriller

Momentum has swung regularly on day three as visiting Western Australia were left needing 44 more runs with just two wickets in hand to beat Tasmania in Hobart.

AAP · Oct 17, 2025

Queensland’s pandering to climate deniers is making it even tougher for Australia to drive down emissions

Queensland is Australia’s top polluter – even worse than Western Australia, which has no climate target and adores its fossil fuel industry

The Guardian - AU · Oct 15, 2025

Theft, lies and butterflies: the Englishman who stole thousands of specimens from our museums

In August 2025, there was a plague of Monarch butterflies near Nannup in Western Australia. Thousands of winged creatures arrived – attracted to two invasive weeds, cotton bush and milkweed. In a time of a bitter loss of bees and butterflies in our ecologies, the multitude of fluttering wings was…

The Conversation · Oct 14, 2025

WA paceman takes five wickets in one-day win over SA

A trio of Western Australia batsmen have struck half-centuries before a teammate took five wickets in a 66-run one-day win against South Australia.

AAP · Sep 24, 2025

Young gun stars as Bulls win one-day clash for the ages

A little-known 20-year-old has resurrected Queensland from the dead with a stunning century in an epic One-Day Cup victory over Western Australia.

AAP · Sep 21, 2025

Optus Triple Zero outage has left multiple people dead. A telecommunications expert explains what went wrong – and how to fix it

Multiple people have died after a botched Optus network upgrade on Thursday prevented around 600 emergency calls to Triple Zero across Australia.

The Conversation · Sep 20, 2025

‘Incompetent’: SA premier slams Optus as eight-week-old baby among three who died when triple zero calls failed

Peter Malinauskas criticised the telco for its communications after two people in South Australia and one in Western Australia died during the network upgrade

The Guardian - AU · Sep 19, 2025

WA champion tips 'torrid' Origin experience for Big V

West Coast legend Glen Jakovich expects Western Australia to take the fight to Victoria when State of Origin football returns to the AFL calendar.

AAP · Sep 15, 2025

AFL confirms State of Origin football to return in 2026 after 27-year hiatus

The AFL’s marquee State of Origin fixture will return next year after an absence of 26 years, with Western Australia to host Victoria in Perth on Valentine’s Day

The Guardian - AU · Sep 15, 2025

Australia’s long history of ‘sovereign citizens’ can be traced to outback WA

Outback Western Australia, some time in the 1970s. Picture a huge farm about 500 kilometres north of Perth, with a seemingly endless dirt road to get there.

The Conversation · Sep 12, 2025