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

• Dezi Freeman remains on the run after allegedly executing two policemen in an ambush attack in Porepunkah.

Mount Buffalo National Park is closed as police hunt the alleged gunman.Credit: Joe Armao

• Property values across the nation are growing at their fastest rate in more than a year as cuts in official interest rates hit a housing market struggling from a lack of supply.

• Donald Trump is not dead, as he proved on Saturday with a swing of a golf club. Rumours about the US president’s health had grown on Friday night after commentators online pointed out that Trump – unusually – had not been seen in public for two days.

Good morning readers, and welcome to our live news blog for Monday, September 1.

Making headlines today, thousands of people marched to WA’s Parliament House as part of a national anti-immigration rally movement on Sunday.

WA Police put the crowd at around 10,000 people, with few incidents reported despite tensions between the crowd and a smaller counter-protest organised in response.

Counter-protesters chanted “Nazi scum off our streets” and there were heated exchanges as the anti-immigration crowd gathered in Perth’s Supreme Court gardens at 1pm.

Meanwhile, Chinese investors have attempted to circumvent Australian government orders to sell down a stake in a key rare earth mining project in Western Australia by shifting around millions of dollars of shares instead of offloading them, court documents allege.

The federal government is becoming increasingly alarmed by Chinese efforts to gain control over Australia’s strategically important mineral tenements, including supplies of rare earths needed to make an array of products such as electric motors, wind turbines and missiles and other military hardware.

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