source : the age
An elderly woman is recovering after a sickening sex attack inside her Claremont home over the weekend.
The 70-year-old was attacked by a man who followed her into her home on Saturday around 1.30pm, as she returned from a grocery shopping outing.
WA Police say the man, 35, grabbed her by the arms, pushed her to the floor, and covered her mouth before sexually assaulting her.
The accused had been released from Hakea Prison just days earlier and was staying at a neighbouring unit. The housemate from that unit heard the victim’s screams and rushed to get the man off her.
He was charged with aggravated sexual penetration without consent, aggravated burglary, and impeding another person’s breath and denied bail in court yesterday.
Here’s what’s making headlines across the country and around the world today:
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After a difficult couple of months for Anthony Albanese and Pauline Hanson, the pair remain Australians’ first and second choice, respectively, as preferred prime minister. And the person paying the price is Angus Taylor.
- Optometrists are reporting a significant rise in dry eye disease, particularly among younger patients, due to extended screen use. The condition can impact vision and lead to permanent damage.
- Sam Pang has won the Gold Logie for the most popular person on Australian television. And in a showstopping surprise that capped an uncommonly entertaining ceremony, he was presented with the award by a tattered and torn Sharon Strzelecki – Magda Szubanski in her first public appearance since her prolonged cancer battle – dressed in Australia Zoo fatigues and looking for all the world like she’d just emerged from a tussle with a crocodile.
It was a glorious weekend in Perth that definitely felt more like Spring. This week will start with showers from a cold front. Another front moving through on Wednesday but it won’t bring as much rain.
Good morning and welcome to our live news blog for this Monday, the 17th of August.
Making headlines today, Perth is in the midst of a baby drought. The city’s fertility rate, which measures expected births per woman, has fallen by 19 per cent in the past decade to an historic low of 1.44.
That’s way below the benchmark “replacement” level of 2.1, which is needed for the population to be replenished from one generation to the next without migration.
Meanwhile, the price growth of properties in multiple suburbs surrounding some of Perth’s most in demand schools has far exceeded the average growth across the city over the past 30 years, a new report has revealed.
But not all suburbs near those schools saw a significant spike, proving that while what parents’ perceive to be a good school does concentrate demand, other factors are also in play according to the buyers’ agency that compiled the findings.
