WA news LIVE: Pedestrian fighting for life after hit-and-run incident in Perth’s south

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

• Australia Post has suspended shipping business parcels to the United States after President Donald Trump signed an executive order last month imposing tariffs on items under $US800 (about $1230).
• Children with mild to moderate development delays or autism account for almost 30 per cent of the National Disability Insurance Scheme’s participants but less than 7 per cent of its budget in a sign the government must make further significant changes to the scheme if it wants to curb its yearly growth.

• Asking rents have soared even for the most modest properties in recent years, putting pressure on tenants in a cost-of-living crisis.
• An Israeli strike on southern Gaza’s main hospital that has killed at least 20 people has been condemned by the Albanese government as a likely breach of international law, with a senior minister rebuffing Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu’s claim it was a tragic accident.

Good morning readers, and welcome to our live news blog for Tuesday, August 26.

Making headlines today, the speed pet cats can turn feral is a key reason the state government should allow councils to introduce laws that would force the owners to keep them contained, a nature conservation group says.

Meanwhile, a Ming Dynasty relic discovered by two men from Shark Bay on Australia’s Mid West coast has made its second major TV appearance in their search for its origins – and the process has thrown up two fresh shipwreck mysteries.

And with West Coast officially recording the worst season in the history of the competition, what steps must the club take to stop being an uncompetitive rabble?

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