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Sea change lights up local artist’s life
WHEN Connolly artist Val Brooks arrived from the UK in 1981, the quality of light and colours of the Australian landscape were a revelation. Always living close to the ocean, its movement and colour fascinated. Over the years, ceramic artist Val translated what she saw firstly to pots and platters and then, as a natural progression, to pastels on paper. Land and seascapes became her passion ...
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Magazines were not child porn
A Perth man who had three editions of a 1980s magazine called Rockspider, which was allegedly targeted at paedophiles and contained sexually explicit stories, denies the material is child pornography.Harry Holland, who changed his name by deed poll from Colin Nugent in 1991, went on trial in the District Court yesterday, defending an allegation he possessed child pornography in the form of the ...
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WA taxes carry nation
Almost $15 billion more in taxes leaves WA each year than flows back into the State in Commonwealth spending, a WA Treasury analysis shows.The report spotlights the extent WA carries the rest of the Australian Federation.It shows WA's net contribution to the other States and Territories is a staggering $6447 for each resident, way beyond that of the other two donor States - NSW and ...
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AHA seeks tough line on violence
People convicted of serious assaults, including domestic violence, as a result of being drunk could be banned from pubs and clubs for up to a year under a proposal by WA's hotel lobby.But the Australian Hotels Association WA also wants the "1950s restriction" that requires pubs to close at 10pm on Sundays scrapped.Releasing its submission to the review of the Liquor Control Act, ...
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Search for man after armed hold-ups
Police are searching for a man who they believe can help with their investigations into armed hold-ups at four stores across Perth during the past ten days.Police are looking for 24-year-old John Paul Crossland who is described as 175cm tall with fair skin, a slim build and a shaved head.Police said members of the public were advised not to approach him as he may react unpredictably.At 7.40pm on ...
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Two dead in truck fire
Two people are dead and another injured after a horror crash which saw a truck carrying ammonium nitrate catch fire on the Great Northern Highway.The crash occurred about 10:40pm last night when a vehicle collided with the truck about 30km north of Wubin.Initial reports suggested two people died at the scene and another person was being treated for shock.Ammonium nitrate is a fertiliser that is ...
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McKenna shocked at abuse allegations
A former supervisor at Katanning's infamous St Andrews Hostel accused of molesting female boarders told police he liked to treat children like adults but did nothing that went beyond being friendly.Wayne McKenna, 63, repeatedly said "no comment" to detectives last year as they revealed allegations he indecently dealt with the two girls at the Wheatbelt hostel in 1980 and ...
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Sewage discharged near lake not cleaned up
Joondalup 6027 Labor MP Dave Kelly says the Government must explain why 750,000 litres of sewage was discharged in Lake Joondalup and still has not been cleaned up.The sewage was discharged from a pumping station on the banks of the lake last November after a private contractor's sewage pump failed. Mr Kelly says the Water Corporation should never have allowed it to occur.He says there ...
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Go-ahead for plant to convert waste into electricity
Port Hedland 6721 The State Government has given final environmental approval for a facility in the Pilbara that would convert domestic waste into electricity.New Energy's facility near Port Hedland would be the first of its size in Australia.The plant is expected to process up to 255,000 tonnes of waste a year and potentially power 21,000 homes.It will also include a recycling ...
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Man charged over fatal motorbike crash
A 63-year-old Stirling man has been charged with dangerous driving occasioning death following a Major Crash investigation.About 5.30am on May 10, a 74-year-old man was riding his Honda motorcycle south on Fitzgerald Street when it collided with a Daewoo sedan being driven north along the same road.Police will allege it was the 63-year-old man who was driving the Daewoo when the crash occurred ...
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Stirling man charged over crash
POLICE have charged a 63-year-old Stirling man with dangerous driving occasioning death after his car and a motorcycle collided in Northbridge on May ...
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McKenna denies molesting female boarders
Katanning 6317 A former supervisor at a country hostel in Western Australia has denied that he sexually molested two female boarders more than 30 years ago.Wayne McKenna is on trial accused of indecently dealing with two girls when they were boarders at the St Andrews Hostel in Katanning in 1980 and 1981.In a video police interview played to the District Court today, McKenna denied the ...
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Waste-to-energy plant gets green light
HOUSEHOLD rubbish will be converted into electricity after the final environmental approvals were made for the State's first large scale waste-to-energy ...
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Premier flags WA public sector job cuts
WESTERN Australia's post-election austerity mode will include a review of the public sector, with Premier Colin Barnett refusing to rule out job ...
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Three dead in horror five hours on WA roads
THREE people have been killed in a horror five-hour stretch on WA roads, including two men in country crashes and a woman pedestrian in the ...
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Barnett won’t rule out job cuts
WA's post-election austerity mode will include a review of the public sector, with Premier Colin Barnett refusing to rule out job cuts.Since the March 9 victory by the Liberal party, the re-elected Government has flagged significant budget pressures, and banned Government advertising to save money amid suggestions of a $2 billion write-down of pre-polling revenue estimates.Today, Mr Barnett ...
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Plane flying low before crash with chopper
The surviving pilot of a mid-air crash in the remote Gascoyne that killed the two occupants of a small plane told a coronial inquest today that he could think of no other explanation for the plane being so low other than his fellow pilot was dealing with an emergency.William Maher was the experienced helicopter pilot involved in a State Government feral goat culling operation in February 2008, ...
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Frenchman on trial for Broome murder
Broome 6725 Lawyers are making their final submissions to the jury in a three-week murder trial in Broome.23-year-old Frenchman Thomas Camus is on trial in the Supreme Court in Broome accused of fatally stabbing 32-year-old Pilbara man Kristopher Dixon on Christmas morning in 2011.Both men had been drinking with friends at the town's only nightclub.The jury has been shown graphic mobile ...
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Rescue helicopter sent to fatal country crash
Quindanning 6391 The rescue helicopter has been sent to the scene of a fatal car crash in Western Australia's South West.A man died after his vehicle hit a tree on the Harvey-Quindanning Road, about five kilometres from Quindanning near Harvey.Police say the accident occurred about 12:30 pm. (WST)Fire crews from Williams and Boddington worked to free the man from the car but he died at ...
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Streets evacuated after gas main ruptures
Busselton 6280 Authorities are at the scene of a ruptured gas main in Busselton.Police have closed off Bussell Highway between Queen Elizabeth Avenue and Carter Street. The Department of Fire and Emergency Services is at the scene and says it is considering evacuating a local ...
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Rio Tinto cuts iron ore senior managers
RIO Tinto's cost cutting measures have continued with its iron ore business getting a major restructure with president Greg Lilleyman taking on a new ...
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SW gas leak forces evacuation
Authorities have taken less than two hours to make safe an area impacted by a gas main rupture in the South West.Some homes in West Busselton were evacuated with residents moved 100m away from the area.People in the area had been warned to remain inside with doors and windows closed as a precautionary measure while firefighters worked with contractors to make the area safe. The Department of ...
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Ravenswood dog owner fined
THE owner of a Pitbull cross that jumped a fence and attacked a Silky Terrier was fined $1250 when she appeared in Mandurah Magistrates Court on May ...
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Elder praises police handling after riot
That was the message from Aboriginal elder George Walley to participants in a riot at Pinjarra shopping centre on May 17.The riot, involving up to 20 people, resulted in the hospitalisation of a 77-year-old bystander.Senior Sergeant Ian Francis said rioters threw "anything they could get their hands on including cups and signs."Eleven adults and two juveniles have been ...
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Housing crisis chokes refugees hope of new life
Perth 6000 It's a measure of her desperation that Mary Deng would prefer a tent in a refugee camp in strife-torn Sudan to homelessness in Perth.Three years after arriving in Australia, Ms Deng, her four children and her brother still have no house to rent.While she's escaped the dangers and privations of a refugee camp in Sudan, she's enduring a different kind of suffering.Since ...
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Major redevelopment plans for Perth eyesoars
The City of Perth has major projects in the works to redevelop the city’s CBD in-line with the aims of broader projects like Green City and Populate Perth, but some residents remain wary of red tape, while others fear for the future of historical sites such as Langley.
Perth is the commercial, transport and cultural backbone of Western Australia. This city of almost 2 million people is the fourth largest in Australia, but has grown consistently faster than many other cities, outstripping the national average and was ranked by The Economist in 2010 as the eighth ‘most livable city’ in the world, which means we have some of the best living conditions on the planet. Read more
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