ALLISON Baden-Clay's husband Gerard had an affair with a woman who worked in their real estate franchise, friends say in evidence confirmed to police.

JULIA Gillard is considering new measures to deliver parents relief on rising childcare fees including a historic agreement to freeze or cap price hikes.

PREMIER Campbell Newman's LNP Government looks set to overturn controversial civil unions laws introduced by Anna Bligh.

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A GOLD Coast doctor dubbed "the terminator" by colleagues was sacked from a private hospital after an independent inquiry found his work was unsatisfactory.

THE best things in life are free, but if you can't find love at that price you can get the next best thing for less than $1 a day.

AN Italian father is spending the weekend in Brisbane, anxiously waiting for his four missing daughters to be found so they can be returned "home" to Italy.

UNSCRUPULOUS parents are using their children's go cards to avoid paying full fares on public transport.

OPPOSITION leader Tony Abbott's political enforcer Bill Heffernan is accused of a homophobic attack on a senior Liberal staffer.

The Weekend West’s legal affairs editor Amanda Banks has won the 2012 WA Law Week Media Award for her reporting on mentally impaired accused.

Police have ended their search of Lake Gwelup after they were unable to find anything of significance in the Ah Bee Mack case.

Young Fremantle Docker Matt de Boer is as tough as they come on the football field but when it comes to his dog Charlie, he is a big softie.

Better a diamond with a flaw than a pebble without, the saying goes.

More than 40,000 people have flocked to the Defence Force Air Show being held at Pearce Air Base in Bullsbrook.

Update, 12.25pm: An elderly couple have been injured by a car which struck them before crashing through a wall in Maylands.

A slew of multi-million dollar, high end restaurants and bars – all part of the city’s massive Brookfield Multiplex BHP development – are set to open in the CBD.

Update, 10.15am: A man has been seriously injured after a crash in Brunswick this morning.

Medication was stolen from a Hammond Park pharmacy this morning.

A TEENAGE girl was killed and several others injured after a bomb exploded outside an Italian high-school.

OPPOSITION leader Tony Abbott's political enforcer Bill Heffernan is accused of a homophobic attack on a senior Liberal staffer.

THE daughter of colourful Independent MP Bob Katter has quit her high-flying legal career after being found guilty of assault.

SERGEANT Ross Chilcott has lived every cop's worst nightmare arriving at the scene of a road smash to find his daughter trapped.

CRAIG Thomson's wife avoided stamp duty on the home they live in because the MP claimed they were not in a de facto relationship at the time.

MURDERED Brisbane mum Allison Baden-Clay's husband, Gerard, had an affair with a woman who worked in their real estate franchise.