Good morning, and welcome to our live news blog for Tuesday, May 6.
Making headlines this morning, the judge sentencing the teenage driver who crashed his ute in North Lake last year, killing passenger Nick Campo, wants to know if the other youths in the car were encouraging him to speed to make it to a nightclub before lock-out.
The sentencing of the teen behind the wheel was delayed yesterday with one of the teens who was in the crash expected to take the stand today.
Nick Campo, 18, was a talented sportsman and played for the South Fremantle Football Club colts side.
In some non-politics news (finally), new data reveals even Perth’s high-income earners are being priced out of homeownership.
Back in 2015, then-treasurer Joe Hockey famously claimed all it took to buy a home was “a good job that pays good money”.
But that advice feels almost absurd a decade later, with median Perth house prices rising from $486,000 in 2019 to $764,250 in 2024.
So, which jobs pay enough to save for a Perth house deposit? You can read Sarah Brookes’ article to find out.
Also in property news, Perth has had Australia’s strongest luxury home price growth over the past 12 months.
But growth is slowing globally as uncertainty grows, the latest research shows.
Thank you for joining us this morning, stay tuned as we bring you more news you need to know.
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