{"id":647948,"date":"2026-05-04T00:35:13","date_gmt":"2026-05-04T00:35:13","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/647948\/"},"modified":"2026-05-04T00:35:13","modified_gmt":"2026-05-04T00:35:13","slug":"afl-legend-dennis-cometti-to-be-farewelled-in-perth-today","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/647948\/","title":{"rendered":"AFL legend Dennis Cometti to be farewelled in Perth today"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Good morning and welcome to WAtoday\u2019s live news blog for this Monday, the 4th May. <\/p>\n<p>Making headlines today, a West Australian teacher says she feels <a class=\"inline-link\" href=\"https:\/\/www.watoday.com.au\/national\/western-australia\/this-wa-teacher-was-sacked-over-choke-holds-she-says-never-happened-now-she-wants-change-20260429-p5zs7f.html\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer nofollow\" target=\"_blank\">horrendously let down<\/a> and unsupported after being fired from her primary school job over what she claims were unsubstantiated allegations about her strangling children.<\/p>\n<p>The woman, who asked not to be named, was in her second year of teaching and working at a regional Catholic primary school last year when the allegations arose.<\/p>\n<p>Meanwhile, more than $2 billion is being tipped into housing in Western Australia in a joint state and Commonwealth effort to make it easier for <a class=\"inline-link\" href=\"https:\/\/www.watoday.com.au\/national\/western-australia\/wa-first-home-buyers-face-incredibly-difficult-time-will-a-2-billion-cash-splash-turn-things-around-20260503-p5ztb9.html\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer nofollow\" target=\"_blank\">first-home buyers<\/a> to get into the market.<\/p>\n<p>And Perth-born <a class=\"inline-link\" href=\"https:\/\/www.watoday.com.au\/sport\/soccer\/most-special-sam-kerr-savours-historic-chelsea-goal-against-leicester-20260504-p5ztcq.html\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer nofollow\" target=\"_blank\">Sam Kerr<\/a> has been left savouring a goal she believes may be the most special of her garlanded career as she became Chelsea\u2019s all-time leading scorer in England\u2019s Women\u2019s Super League.<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" alt=\"Sam Kerr scores against Leicester.\" loading=\"lazy\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/05\/6a6be6e8caf7e35d93b79710e4eb8cf326f6ddf28bcffe64c50471158c339f6c.gif\"  class=\"sc-d34e428-1 ldCIuB\"\/>Sam Kerr scores against Leicester.Barclays Women Super League<\/p>\n<p>Stay with us as we bring you news of the day, as it happens. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Good morning and welcome to WAtoday\u2019s live news blog for this Monday, the 4th May. Making headlines today,&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":647949,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[560],"tags":[638,64,63,55,639,85],"class_list":["post-647948","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-afl","tag-afl","tag-au","tag-australia","tag-australian-football-league","tag-australianfootballleague","tag-sports"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/647948","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=647948"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/647948\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/647949"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=647948"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=647948"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=647948"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}