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The Kwinana Freeway northbound has been closed between Canning Highway and South Terrace, with images showing what WA Police say was a stolen car flipped on its top in the middle of the road.
The vehicle failed to stop in Attadale, before crashing along the freeway.
An image of the scene taken from the southbound lanes.
St John Ambulance and police were called to the scene and two people have been taken into custody.
Main Roads WA has issued a warning to drivers to take care in the area, with cars being redirected off the freeway at the Canning Highway exit.
Drivers are urged to consider an alternative route, and more details on the incident are expected to be released later in the day.
We’re bringing our live blog to a close for the day, thank you for joining us.
Here’s a recap of some of the day’s headlines:
WA has some work to do to make it a more competitive place to run a business with a new report ranking it the second-worst place for business owners to set up shop.
Some Synergy customers caught up in the overpayment scandal are owed as much as $5000 from the utility, the Economic Regulation Authority has revealed.
Police Commissioner Col Blanch has pleaded with WA drivers to relax while on the road after footage emerged of an alleged road rage attack in Welshpool on Monday morning.
Police have released CCTV footage of four cars being set on fire in both Greenfields and Dudley Park across the month of October, in the hopes the community can help identify anyone involved.
The Kwinana Freeway northbound was closed between Canning Highway and South Terrace, with images showing what WA Police say was a stolen car flipped on its top in the middle of the road.
Town of Victoria Park Mayor Karen Vernon has described the unauthorised felling of dozens of trees in a highly anticipated heritage precinct redevelopment as “deeply disappointing and very embarrassing” for the council.
Thank you again for tuning in today. We’ll see you back here tomorrow for more news you need to know.
Town of Victoria Park Mayor Karen Vernon has described the unauthorised felling of dozens of trees in a highly anticipated heritage precinct redevelopment as “deeply disappointing and very embarrassing” for the council.
The East Victoria Park community is outraged after 46 trees were cut down without council approval in the 4.6-hectare parkland surrounding Blackoak Capital’s Elizabeth Baillie House redevelopment.
An artist’s impression of the upgraded Elizabeth Baillie House in East Victoria Park.
The town posted an apology to its Facebook page overnight, saying it accepted full responsibility.
Vernon expressed similar sentiments on ABC Radio on Tuesday morning, and said she was seeking answers.
“It is deeply disappointing and very embarrassing for us,” she said.
“We certainly pride ourselves on our environmental stewardship, particularly around trees.
“So to have so many trees that have been removed in a project where they weren’t earmarked for removal is something that, yes, we’re very concerned about.”
Read the full story here.
More on the crash that shutdown parts of the Kwinana Freeway northbound earlier today, WA Police have just released the following statement:
Fremantle Detectives and Cannington Detectives are investigating an incident that occurred in the south metropolitan area on Tuesday, 11 November 2025.
About 11.10am, police sighted a stolen grey Mitsubishi Outlander travelling on Canning Highway in Attadale.
Police activated their emergency lights and sirens. However, the vehicle allegedly failed to stop and an evade ensued.
About 11.30am, the Mitsubishi Outlander was allegedly involved in a collision with two civilian vehicles northbound on Kwinana Freeway in South Perth, shortly after Canning Highway.
Police apprehended the two male occupants of the Mitsubishi Outlander. They are assisting police with their inquiries.
The occupants of the civilian vehicles were not injured.
Police believe the Mitsubishi Outlander was stolen from a residence in Victoria Park yesterday, Monday 10 November 2025.
Inquiries are ongoing.
Just in time for peak hour, the Kwinana Freeway northbound at Canning Highway has reopened, although Main Roads is warning that traffic remains heavy on approach.
Sticking with question time and shadow treasurer Sandra Brewer may have just unearthed a nugget, questioning Premier Roger Cook on whether the state was on the hook for $8.5 million to be paid to the leaseholders of the Perth Convention and Exhibition Centre after the government abandoned the redevelopment project.
Liberal MP Sandra Brewer during question time today.
Brewer asked, yes or no, whether the state needed to pay PCEC leaseholders Wyllie and Brookfield $8.5 million each.
Cook’s response was telling.
“The conversation with the leaseholders is ongoing. It continues to be an important conversation, and it’s one that we have taken for some time,” he said.
Any money due will be in addition to the $35 million already spent on the $1.6 billion redevelopment to date.
Cook said that $35 million wasn’t sunk costs and gave them crucial information about the engineering and construction challenges of any future PCEC upgrade.
We’re back in parliament and question time has kicked off with an opposition favourite, the Burswood racetrack precinct.
Opposition leader Basil Zempilas questioned why the state government was pursuing the racetrack when it had scrapped the $1.5 billion Perth Convention and Exhibition Centre upgrade over funding concerns.
WA Premier Roger Cook in question time today.
Cook said the racetrack was an election commitment they would deliver.
Then there was an awkward moment when Cook said the project would include a 12,000-seat amphitheatre.
Zempilas quickly questioned that comment, recalling previous public commentary put it at 20,000 seats.
Cook stopped his answer to correct himself and say it would host “thousands” of people.
The Kwinana Freeway northbound has been closed between Canning Highway and South Terrace, with images showing what WA Police say was a stolen car flipped on its top in the middle of the road.
The vehicle failed to stop in Attadale, before crashing along the freeway.
An image of the scene taken from the southbound lanes.
St John Ambulance and police were called to the scene and two people have been taken into custody.
Main Roads WA has issued a warning to drivers to take care in the area, with cars being redirected off the freeway at the Canning Highway exit.
Drivers are urged to consider an alternative route, and more details on the incident are expected to be released later in the day.
Police have released CCTV footage of four cars being set on fire in both Greenfields and Dudley Park across the month of October, in the hopes the community can help identify anyone involved.
Footage of the incident from October 6 when a woman was also injured in the alleged attack.Credit: WA Police
The first incident, at 4.20am on October 6 in Greenfields, resulted in Penelope Travers, 38, being hospitalised for 17 days with burns to 25 per cent of her body after her home was targeted.
The firebomb ricocheted off her ute, igniting on the ground and spreading to engulf Travers’ carport.
Woken by the commotion, Travers ran outside and attempted to douse the flames to save her home and family inside.
“I immediately tried to put the fire out, and while I was trying to do that, the spray paint cans nearby exploded right in my face,” she said.
“There was instant pain, searing pain, and I knew straight away that I was in a lot of trouble. I felt my skin melt away.”
The second firebombing incident occurred around 1.20am in Dudley Park on October 10, the third at 5.20am in Greenfields and the fourth back in Dudley Park at 5am on October 24.
Investigators believe these incidents are all linked and have released CCTV footage in the hope someone
with information comes forward.
Anyone with any information relating to these fires are urged to contact Crime Stoppers.
Rewards of up to $25,000 are available for information that leads to the identification and conviction of an arsonist.
WA’s police commissioner has also been asked if there was any risk of a rally being organised by neo-Nazis and held in Perth.
The question comes after NSW Police and their state government began investigating how neo-Nazis were allowed to hold a rally against Jewish groups outside Sydney parliament on Saturday.
Blanch labelled that rally as “ridiculous”, “horrific” and “offensive”.
He was asked about whether a similar protest could occur in WA.
“I must authorise protests unless I believe that a crime is going to be committed – I don’t have a choice in saying I don’t like your protest or I don’t like your ideology – that is not how protest permits work,” he said.
“We consider it as an agency and we seek legal advice as to what options we have available to us because we do have very strong racial vilification laws here in WA.
“When you are a protest group purporting to advocate only for white Australians, and in fact I think on their own website says things like ‘if you believe in a brown Australia you are an enemy’, I think that might start triggering some laws that I can then use to stop that protest going ahead.
“I would be looking at [a protest application] as close as possible to make sure I had a lawful reason to shut that down.”
Blanch said he knew of every single neo-Nazi in WA.
Sticking with an interview with the WA police commissioner, Blanch also jumped on radio this morning to discuss the rising cases of domestic and family violence across the state.
New reporting has found that police are called to almost 100 violent assaults every single day.
WA Police Commissioner Col Blanch.Credit: Hamish Hastie
Between July and September this year, police were called to 8578 cases of family violence-related assaults – a 5 per cent increase on the same period in 2024 according to the West Australian.
Blanch said the reasons why incidents were increasing had been a “constant discussion across community”.
“I don’t think one answer is totally correct – we certainly see an increase in reporting over summer, up to a 50 per cent increase,” he told ABC Mornings.
“We put that down to financial stress during the festive season, alcohol consumption, all of the families visiting each other.”
He said when police showed up to a violent and stressful situation was not the time to try and resolve the issue.
“It’s got to start years earlier,” Blanch said.
“It’s about education of young men and boys to have a longer-term prevention angle here.
“That doesn’t mean police don’t do their job, and if someone rings triple zero, we turn up and deal with it and make victims safe and hold perpetrators accountable.”
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