The Nicheliving nightmare continues for one of its former customers.

There are calls for the WA state government to stump up more money in support a year on from its deal with the builder, which no longer exists.

Kathy Ellis is among those left in the lurch as mould grows in her ceiling and water gushes from it.

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Five days after moving into her Perth property, hopes she was finally in her dream home went down the drain.

Every time she turns on a tap upstairs, water falls from the ceiling into strategically placed buckets downstairs.

Ellis says she can't get hold of the builder's plumber.

"The assessor that came out, his concern is, the weight of it is going to actually make the ceiling come down," she said.

"And it was him that discovered that in the ceiling, there's communications PVC piping, instead of plumbing piping.

"He laughed, he said 'this has got to be a joke?'. I said, 'No, it was built by Nicheliving so –' and he goes, 'Oh okay'."

The nightmare in Canning Vale doesn't end there, with mould growing in multiple rooms.

"The stress of all that, I can't get to sleep and then I'm waking up at 4 o'clock every morning going 'oh my god, I can hear dripping'."

Nicheliving left hundreds of Perth customers with unfinished homes when the construction company collapsed.

The WA state government was forced into a $40 million bailout in October last year.

Ellis is now fighting to have this $100,000 debacle covered, with the building regulator now investigating her case.

"The government should be considering an ex-gratia payment to assist her because of the failure of state government and the regulators to properly pursue Nicheliving in the first place," WA Nationals leader Shane Love told 9News.

While the directors of Nicheliving are now banned from building in Western Australia, that hasn't stopped them becoming property developers and rebranding as Australian Property Alliance.

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Jenny Suo and partner Michael Walker have named their daughter, Maisie Xiaoli Walker-Suo.

A 24-year-old woman has been charged with attempted murder after a stabbing north of Brisbane.

Emergency services were called to a home in Kippa Ring before 4.45am today, where police said a 30-year-old man was found with a stab wound to his chest.

The man was taken to hospital in a critical condition.

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Police charged the woman, who is from the nearby suburb of Rothwell and is known to the man, with one count of attempted murder.

She has been refused bail.

She is due to appear in Brisbane Magistrates Court tomorrow.

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Suspended Queensland mayor Troy Thompson has resigned from his position amid a probe by the state's crime and corruption commission but has vowed to recontest the top job in an upcoming byelection.

Thompson formally resigned from Townsville City Council today after he was suspended for a year on full pay of $225,000 by the Queensland government last November.

The 54-year-old, who was elected to the position in March last year, came under fire over claims he exaggerated his military service history and university qualifications to impress voters in the military city.

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Local government minister Ann Leahy issued the former One Nation Party member with a show cause notice last week after she received an interim briefing on a probe by the Crime and Corruption Commission.

The notice gave Thompson 14 days to explain why he should not be terminated from the position of mayor.

Thompson, who has resigned from the role before the notice period was due to lapse, said he wanted to take a "deliberate and principled stand to protect the democratic rights of the people of Townsville".

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"This resignation is not an admission of wrongdoing," he said in a video posted to social media.

"Political interference has no place in our democracy, only the community should decide who leads this city.

"A vote for Troy Thompson is no longer just a vote for a person, it is a vote to protect our democracy."

In an interview with A Current Affair last year, Thompson admitted when he told voters about his military service history, he "probably didn't say it right pre-election" and put his cloudy memory down to health issues.

"Those who know me know that I've had multiple concussions, 100-plus, and I suffer from epilepsy," he said at the time.

"That's not an excuse, but what it says is you're going to forget things from time to time."

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The former prisoner of war attributed his longevity to never smoking or drinking.

But the court said his claim was trivial, frivolous and an improper use of its time.

NZ secured the first dairy free trade deal with the Gulf Cooperation Council.

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Lawyers for reality TV star Matt Wright are battling to keep him out of jail as they prepare appeals against a jury's finding he tried to pervert the course of justice after a fatal helicopter crash.

The Outback Wrangler star lost his best mate and co-star Chris "Willow" Wilson in the February 2022 crash that left pilot Sebastian Robinson a paraplegic.

The crash occurred during a crocodile-egg collecting trip in Arnhem Land in the Northern Territory while Wilson was slung on a line below a chopper to drop onto nests in remote swampland.

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Luke Officer, the instructing solicitor for the defence during the trial, told AAP the appeal documents were being "finished off" and were expected to be lodged today for referral to the appeal court.

"The appeal papers will be filed, there will be an appeal hearing of some sort," he said.

Wright was accused of lying to crash investigators about the amount of fuel in the machine, of trying to get Robinson to falsify flying hours and of asking a friend to "torch" the helicopter's maintenance release.

On August 29, a Supreme Court jury in Darwin found Wright guilty on the first two counts but could not reach agreement on the third count regarding the "torch" claim.

Prosecutors alleged Wright was worried investigators would learn his chopper flying-hour meters were regularly disconnected to extend flying hours beyond official thresholds and paperwork was falsified to match.

The prosecution did not allege Wright caused the chopper crash, the death of Wilson or Robinson's injuries.

During the trial, the defence targeted Robinson as a cocaine-dealing "party animal" who was to blame for the crash.

Wright has been granted bail ahead of a sentencing hearing on December 12.

Following his guilty verdicts, Wright told reporters outside court that there were "no winners" from the trial.

"The ordeal has been incredibly tough on everyone and it's always been hard to understand why the focus of these investigations have been solely on me and not into the cause of the crash," he said at the time.

Prosecutors have indicated they will be seeking a term of imprisonment for Wright.

The maximum penalty for attempting to pervert the course of justice is 15 years' in jail.

The NT Court of Appeal will also separately hear legal arguments on October 7 about a question of law stemming from a "no case submission" raised by Wright's defence during the trial.

Defence barrister David Edwardson KC argued before the judge, but not before the jury, that the charges his client faced were "a catch-all, or an offence of last resort" and shouldn't have been brought.

Acting Justice Alan Blow ruled for the prosecution, concluding there was a case to answer on all three counts.

Wilson's widow Dani is pursuing a civil case against Wright and the Civil Aviation Safety Authority over the crash that killed her husband.

NT Police have also indicated they will be seeking court costs from Wright.