WA news LIVE: Family escape Mount Lawley house fire

To overnight news now, and firefighters have rescued a family from a house fire in Mount Lawley overnight.

The blaze started around 11pm last night at a property on the corner of Farnley Street and First Avenue.

The Mount Lawley house on fire last night.Credit: 9 News Perth

Around 15 firefighters attended and evacuated the family before bringing the fire under control. At its peak, the flames and smoke were pouring out the roof.

It’s understood the fire started in the roof space of the second floor, which points to an electrical fault, however the cause of the blaze is yet to be determined.

No one was injured, and crews managed to save the house from any major structural damage.

Here’s what’s making headlines across the nation and around the world today:

• Australia’s medicine watchdog says it can’t rule out that weight-loss injections reduce the effectiveness of oral contraceptives, as hundreds of women fall pregnant while using the injections.

Hundreds of women are falling pregnant while using weight-loss injections.

• The search for the next AFL Commission chair has taken another twist after a group of club presidents pushed for the 18 clubs to have a direct say in appointing Richard Goyder’s successor.
• The Murdoch family has reached a deal cementing Lachlan Murdoch as the successor to the family empire, bringing an end to the decades-long battle against his siblings to control the media dynasty’s group which includes Fox News, the Wall Street Journal and The Australian.
  
• An outcry over an “austerity” budget has thrown the French government into crisis after the national assembly voted the prime minister out of office with no obvious successor and no coalition with a clear majority to restore stability.

Good morning readers, and welcome to our live news blog for Tuesday, September 9.

Making headlines today, a Bassendean engineering firm where a worker was killed on Monday afternoon was fined more than $500,000 last year over a similar workplace death in 2019.

Emergency crews rushed to Hofmann Engineering about 2.50pm on Monday after a man, 45, was critically injured.

Meanwhile, peaceful protests and free speech could fall foul of a proposed post and boast law designed to crack down on the glorification of illegal activity on social media, activists say.

The West Australian legislation aims to make social media posts that boost an offender’s notoriety or humiliate victims a criminal act, but opponents say it is a risk to democracy and want the bill amended.

Stay with us as we bring you the news of the day, as it happens.