Bunnings Warehouse has been named the nation's top online retailer.

The home improvements giant took out the top spot in Power Retail's Australia's Top 100 Online Retailers, praised for how it adapted to Australians wanting to take up some home improvements during lockdown.

Supermarket giant Woolworths was next on the list, followed by discount retailer Kmart.

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Power Retail said: "Bunnings Warehouse was a major winner online from COVID-19, with a massive leap in traffic and sales that propelled Bunnings ahead of the supermarket duopoly for the first time ever.

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"A laggard to online, Bunnings most definitely arrived and then some in 2020, with click and collect plus its marketplace offering seeing an enormous surge."

Making up the list of top online retailers were Coles, Kogan, Catch, Target, Chemist Warehouse, Officeworks and JB Hi-Fi.

Power Retail helps online retailers and industry suppliers improve performance and profit.

Managing director Grant Arnott said coronavirus forced more Australians online than ever before and retailers had had to adapt.

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"Retailers that led the charge, including Bunnings, JB Hi Fi and Officeworks, did well because they learnt to diversify their networks and not just rely on one channel for success," he said.

Perth will "snap back" to significantly reduced restrictions from Saturday morning but Western Australians have been warned more local cases of COVID-19 are possible in the coming week.

Masks will remain mandatory indoors and on public transport in the WA capital and neighbouring Peel region but many other restrictions will be significantly eased as planned.

Speaking on Thursday night after a meeting with the state's disaster council, Premier Mark McGowan said cafes and restaurants would return to "pretty much business as usual", nightclubs could reopen and the local AFL derby on the weekend could host a 75 per cent crowd.

He said indoor and outdoor community sport could return with spectators, funerals could be enlarged to 200 guests and outdoor gatherings could go ahead for up to 500 people without a COVID-19 event plan.

Home gatherings will be limited to 30 people, nightclubs forced to comply with the four-square-metre rule and hospitality venues must comply with either the two-square-metre rule or 75 per cent capacity.

All elective surgeries will resume and patient visit restrictions have been eased slightly. Indoor fitness venues, dance studios and gyms can all reopen too, with mask requirements.

Mr McGowan warned more local community cases could be detected in the coming week as 399 close contacts — who have all so far tested negative — are retested while completing their 14-day quarantine.

He said there would still be "low-level" risk in the community until next Friday but contact tracing and the snap lockdown had allowed the state to "snap back to where we were with very few restrictions".

"I'm sorry we had to go down this path. But the alternative is simply not worth the risk," he said.

"We have seen what community spread of the virus can do, it is absolutely heartbreaking with hospitals overwhelmed and loved ones passing away. And we've seen what long-term lockdowns and long-term severe restrictions can do. We've seen it over east, and we've seen it around the world, mass unemployment and business shutdowns."

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Mr McGowan also announced new targeted $2000 grants for the businesses affected worst by the snap lockdown, such as those in hospitality, catering and fitness.

"I know it might not be everything some businesses would want," he said.

"But it is an acknowledgement of the impact and some support to assist."

There were no new local COVID-19 cases recorded on Thursday, but four were recorded in hotel quarantine, all originating from India.

Of 899 casual contacts from the hotel quarantine cluster, 800 had returned a negative result and 50,000 tests had been carried out since Friday.

Perth and the Peel region have been in a "transition period" since the three-day snap lockdown ended this week.

The requirements continue to apply to anyone who has been in the Perth or Peel regions since April 17, even if they have since left.

Mr McGowan reiterated a plea for anyone with symptoms or who had been to an exposure site to get tested, including for a second time if necessary.

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A unique Holden ute for sale in Perth's south is expected to fetch an eye-watering sum, with the car yard expected to pocket six figures.

The unregistered HSV GTSR Maloo GEN F2 vehicle is the last of its kind ever produced and has just 21 kilometres on the odometer.

The collector's item is on the market for $750,000, with the Carrington car yard confirming interested buyers are already making bids.

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Other models in the range have also fetched impressive amounts. In January, a Holden HSV GTSR W1 Maloo sold for $1.05 million, an auction record for an Australian-made car.

The supercharged V8 ute was built after the end of local manufacturing with bids passing $1 million a fortnight before the Lloyds Auction.

This beat the previous Australian record, a Ford Falcon GTHO Phase III which went for $1.03 million in 2018.

The children of Gold Coast mother Kelly Wilkinson, who was allegedly murdered by her estranged husband, will be cared for by their aunt and uncle in a loud, loving family of 10.

Ms Wilkinson's sister Danielle Carroll and her husband Rhys are now caring for eight children under the age of 11 in their four-bedroom home.

The couple already had five children of their own before they decided to take in Ms Wilkinson's three children following her death.

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"It's loud," Ms Carroll told 9News.

"We currently have a convoy everywhere we go. Half the kids in one car, half the kids in the other and a support vehicle with the school bags," she said laughing.

"We've been in open discussions with the kids as things are progressing and just letting them know that there's a sense of belonging at our house.

"They are eternally loved."

Ms Wilkinson was found burned in the backyard of her Arundel home on Tuesday last week.

Her ex-husband Brian Johnston has been charged with her murder and remains in an induced coma in hospital.

Her family is now fighting to change a broken system, that police have admitted is failing to protect vulnerable women and children.

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"I feel like she has done her part and got the world's attention and it's now up to all of us to step up and make sure changes are made to safeguard our children and our future generations," Ms Carroll said.

Hundreds of Gold Coasters turned out to a community vigil on Monday night and a fundraiser for the family has raised more than $270,000.

Ms Wilkinson's interactions with police and their subsequent actions will be subject to an internal police review by Assistant Commissioner Brian Codd, as well as a coronial investigation.

The Victorian Government has revealed that its proposed "alternative quarantine hub" used to house international arrivals would be built in Melbourne's north, if the Commonwealth ticks off on the plan.

Acting Premier James Merlino announced Donnybrook Road in Mickleham as the preferred location for the 500-bed hub today, but warned the $15 million plan was "subject to Commonwealth agreement".

The chosen location for the hub neighbours an existing pet quarantine facility, sitting on the rural fringe of the city, about 40 minutes north of Melbourne's CBD.

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The hub would mimic the open-air cabin model currently used by the Howard Springs facility in Darwin, in a bid to prevent any further leakages in the state's quarantine scheme.

The plan comes after Victoria's embattled hotel system led to a number of COVID-19 leakages, ultimately sparking the state's deadly second wave last year.

"The best way to keep our communities safe is by having a dedicated purpose-built quarantine facility modelled on Howard Springs, but having a Howard Springs in a Victorian context," Mr Merlino said today.

The facility would take four months to build, with the state government asking the Commonwealth to foot the mammoth $100 million bill to construct the 500-bed hub.

The cost to expand the facility to 3000 beds would be around $700 million.

The state government should know by September whether the Commonwealth is onboard with the plan.

"We're engaging with the Commonwealth, we will work closely with them, because ultimately this is a Commonwealth responsibility," Mr Merlino said.

"Whilst the Commonwealth is considering the proposal and business case … to ensure we don't waste any time, the Victorian Government will crack on and do the detailed design and planning."

"By September it will be the go or no-go decision. This is about giving us options, options to make our community even safer."

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Mr Merlino said if approved, the quarantine hub could be opened by the end of the year.

The final decision whether to proceed with construction would also depend on the progress of the state's vaccine rollout, the efficacy of the jabs in preventing transmission and Commonwealth decisions on travel and quarantine rules.

"Today's announcement is about encouraging the Commonwealth to work with us in a partnership, to look at this alternative quarantine proposal and making sure that by working together, we can make the plans that are required to make sure that we get this right," Acting Police Minister Danny Pearson said.

Earlier this year, Avalon Airport was considered to be the frontrunner business case for the hub.

Mr Merlino said the government considered a number of factors when selecting the location, including proximity to Melbourne Airport, public health centres and services, health hotels and the CBD.

He acknowledged local residents may be concerned about living nearby to a quarantine facility.

"I understand the views of communities wherever this site may have been identified as the preferred location," he said.

"There's always going to be a response and I understand that."

Police have rescued a deaf man from his burning apartment in Queensland.

Officers were patrolling in Mount Isa on Monday at midnight, when they heard a smoke alarm coming from the back of an apartment building.

Police officer Constable Jasmine Waller, said they don't normally go down that street – but when they did, they noticed the unit building was on fire.

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"We had to jump to action pretty quickly. We could see through the curtain, the flames were starting to get pretty high up," Constable Waller said.

"We don't ever usually go down that street, it's a dead end, it's super quiet."

Bodycam footage shows Constable Waller smash a glass window and yell; "Police! Anyone inside?"

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The video shows the room filled with smoke, with flames burning at one end.

The officers realised there was somebody inside, so smashed open the front door, to find the 68-year-old deaf resident asleep in bed.

They woke him up and got him out safely, as fire crews moved in.

Constable Walker said they were in the 'right place at the right time."

"We just did what any of us would have done if they saw the same thing," she said.

The officers and the man were checked by medics, but were not injured.

A devastated Gold Coast family has been told their six-year-old boy will not recover from injuries sustained in a freak accident with a toy on Anzac Day.

Deklan Babington-MacDonald was playing with a penguin toy bought from Sea World just days earlier when he suffered critical injuries and was flown to Queensland Children's Hospital.

His family were today told by doctors that Deklan is "beyond recovery" and his "life support will be withdrawn in the next 48 hours".

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"Devastated doesn't begin to describe how the family is right now," cousin Lea Williams said.

In a statement, Village Road Show Theme Parks said it is "distressed to learn about the tragic accident involving Deklan" and that it "needs to understand the circumstances around what has occurred".

Sea World has temporarily taken the toy in question off shelves and will reach out to the family.

A fundraiser to help the family with costs and a memorial has raised more than $10,000.

A mother was looking at photographs of her children killed in an awful car accident in the Sydney suburb of Oatlands when a thief allegedly broke into her house and stole precious items.

An intruder smashed his way into the Telopea home of the Abdallah family just before midday yesterday.

Leila Abdallah, whose three young children were killed when they were struck by a drunk driver, was at home at the time with a friend.

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She had been looking at photos of her children in the kitchen around lunchtime when she noticed a stranger running out, carrying bags of her personal things.

"I was too focused on my kids' pictures, Anthony and Angelina's and Sienna's videos, I didn't feel it, I just felt him leaving," Mrs Abdallah told 9News today.

When confronted, the thief fled with a bag packed with jewellery and other personal items.

He got into the front seat of a stolen Audi and drove away.

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Speaking to 9News, Mrs Abdallah said she felt silly appealing to the public over the burglary.

"They're just material things," she said.

But some of the items hold sentimental value. She believes the mobile phone of her late son Antony may have been stolen.

Mrs Abdallah also said a watch belonging to her daughter was taken.

"He took a watch, but it's not about the watch, I remember walking with Angelina to the store to buy the watch.

Detective Superintendent Darryl Jobson said Mrs Abdallah and her friend were "shaken and unsettled" by the home invasion.

"In the last 12 months the victims have endured an incredible ordeal and I appeal to the conscience of the people responsible for this crime to hand themselves in to the police," he said.

"I also appeal to them to return the property of those victims. If you don't have a conscience, we will get your names and we will be knocking on your door."

Mr Jobson said the burglary appeared to be opportunistic.

"It is absolutely disgusting. It is absolutely abhorrent to enter a home while people are there," he said.

The front door was not locked at the time.

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Police aerial and dog units were dispatched but were unable to find the suspects.

The Audi is believed to have been stolen from a home in North Rocks between 10pm Monday and 6am Tuesday.

Police describe the thief as blond, Caucasian, about 183cm tall, between 20 and 25 and skinny.

He was wearing a black baseball cap, a black face mask, black track pants and a blue hooded jumper.

The getaway driver is described only as having blond hair.

Earlier this month Samuel Davidson was jailed for a minimum of 21 years for four counts of manslaughter.

He was drunk and speeding when he fatally struck Abdallah siblings Antony, Angelina and Sienna, along with their cousin Veronique Sakr.

A coronial inquest is underway investigating the death of a Melbourne mother who suffered an anaphylactic reaction to dye used in a heart test.

Peta Hickey had no medical history of cardiac problems she was invited to take part in a Cardiac Health Assessment by her employer, Programmed in March, 2019.

On May 1 that year, the 43-year-old mother went to Future Medical Imaging Group in Moonee Ponds for the scan.

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Contrast Dye was administered intravenously and a scan was performed.

Shortly after, she began vomiting and losing consciousness.

A radiologist, Dr Gavin Tseng, was called back into the room and treated her, administering medicine but not adrenaline and asked for an ambulance to be called.

Paramedics tried to resuscitate Ms Hickey and she was taken to the Royal Melbourne Hospital Intensive Care Unit.

There she experienced complications and had her right leg amputated.

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She never regained consciousness and died eight days later.

Ms Hickey left behind her partner Richard and two young children.

The coroner will investigate what information the radiologist had about Ms Hickey before the scan.

The policies and procedures in place at the various companies involved in the heart check program will also be investigated.

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The court heard the push to provide employees with cardiac checks came after a senior executive at Ms Hickey's workplace suffered a heart attack while on an overseas trip.

Chris Sutherland, who was the Managing Director of Programmed at the time, said he never directly received any medical advice about the appropriateness of that particular test for someone with no symptoms of heart issues.

The inquest is expected to run for three weeks.