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Average rates bill up by $64
THE average Cockburn ratepayer will be asked to fork out an extra $64 next financial year after the City placed on its website a plan to increase rates across the board by 4.75 per cent. City finance director Stuart Downing said the increase of $1.23 a week was needed to accommodate operation and capital costs, estimated at $164 million. Mr Downing said the figure, up from $160 million for ...
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Willeton school set to expand
WILLETTON Senior High School has embarked on an ambitious building program in a bid to boost several academic areas. Plans include a new science block and classrooms for the first intake of Year 7s. Preparation work was finished this week, with new teaching spaces created so that old ones can be knocked down during the first stage, which is expected to begin sometime this year. Principal ...
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Students show care for carers
Balga Senior High School hospitality students Aldrin De Sierra, Beh Beh, Hay Biee Paw Aye, Shalay Naw, Eh Na Paw, Cade Wyatt and Jenjira Hoyken. Picture: Marcus Whisson ...
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Lithium miner Galaxy Resources cuts salaries
Ravensthorpe 6346 The lithium miner Galaxy Resources is cutting salaries and attempting to raise nearly $50 million to ease its substantial debt and raise working capital.The WA miner owns the Mount Cattlin mine near Ravensthorpe which was put into care and maintenance earlier this year.In a letter to shareholders, the company says its board and senior management will take major pay cuts in an ...
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Man dies after car hits tree near Tambellup
Tambellup 6320 A man has died in a crash near Tambellup, south-east of Perth.The 61-year-old man from Dumbleyung was driving a car that hit a tree on the Great Southern Highway late yesterday afternoon.He died at the scene.His death takes the state road toll for the year to ...
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Drivers threatened during two car jackings
Thornlie 6108 Police are tying to determine if two separate car jackings in Perth overnight are linked.A 38-year-old man was dragged from his car at the Spencer Village Shopping Centre in Thornlie late last night after being threatened with a knife.About an hour later a 56-year-old man was dragged from his car outside his home in Langford by a man armed with a knife.He was dragged along the ...
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Senator urges WA to sign up to DisabilityCare
Perth 6000 The West Australian Labor Senator, Louise Pratt, has added to calls for the state to join the national disability insurance scheme.WA is the only jurisdiction which has not agreed to the scheme known as DisabilityCare.The Premier Colin Barnett has said DisabilityCare would be a step backwards for West Australians with disabilities. Senator Pratt says the fact WA already has a good ...
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Pedestrian in serious condition after hit by car
Bicton 6157 Police in Perth are investigating a crash that has left a pedestrian with life-threatening injuries.A man believed to be aged in his 20s was hit by a car while walking along Preston Point Road in Bicton about 10:00 pm last night.He was initially taken to Fremantle Hospital but has been transferred to Royal Perth Hospital where his condition is listed as critical.Police from Major ...
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Police hunt armed car-jacker
He approached the offender by opening the driver’s side door of the car in an attempt to remove him from the seat. The offender then drove off, with the owner of the car hanging on to the car before he was dragged to the ground. The offender, who was armed with a knife, drove off from the area.The car was later found abandoned nearby in Langford. The victim was treated by St Johns ...
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Pedestrian 20 critical after hit
A YOUNG man is in a critical condition after being struck by a car as he walked along Preston Point Road, Bicton, late last ...
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Drivers threatened in violent carjackings
Two men were dragged from their cars and threatened with knives in separate attacks in Perth's south-eastern suburbs last night.A 38-year-old man was sitting in his Nissan Patrol in the Spencer Village Shopping Centre car park in Thornlie when he was approached by a man about 10.38pm.The thief demanded the man's car and threatening him with a knife after the driver refused to give him ...
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Car hits pedestrian in Bicton
A young man was fighting for life last night after being struck by a car in Bicton.The man, thought to be in his twenties, was hit on Preston Point Road near the intersection of Fifth Street shortly after 10pm.He was taken to Fremantle Hospital with serious injuries.The driver of the car stopped at the scene.Major Crash will investigate the cause of the ...
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Aboriginal advocates warn of youth suicide spike
Perth 6000 Aboriginal health advocates will hold a crisis meeting in Perth today to address what they have described as an alarming spike in the youth suicide rate. The Dumbartung Aboriginal Corporation director, Robert Eggington, says children as young as 11 are taking their own lives. "There's been just an incredible spate," he said. "One of the units we're inviting ...
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Ex-WA man jailed over Dubai fraud
Former WA businessman Matthew Joyce has been jailed for 10 years in Dubai and fined $25 million for his part in a fraudulent land deal.Foreign Affairs Minister Bob Carr said Australia would support Joyce and his family and has urged the United Arab Emirates to deal with an appeal quickly.The Dubai court yesterday cleared Melbourne man Marcus Lee of wrongdoing, paving the way for him to return to ...
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New era for old pub site
Slim Dusty sang about nothing being so lonesome, morbid or dreary than a pub with no beer. This doesn't bode well for Roebourne's Victoria Hotel, which hasn't had a patron - let alone beer - for years.Abandoned after its licence was suspended in 2006, the Vic is a forlorn figure of smashed windows, graffiti and weeds on the main street.It's hardly an appealing look for one of ...
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Hunt for copter crash hoaxer
Authorities are searching for a caller who sparked an extensive air search yesterday afternoon after making two hoax mayday radio calls claiming a helicopter had crashed north-west of Gingin.Australian Maritime Safety Authority spokeswoman Jo Meehan said the ...
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Executives take on Gibb River challenge
A team of Perth businessmen are mixing fitness and fundraising with a sense of adventure as they ride mountain bikes across the Kimberley in the tough 2013 Gibb River Road Challenge.The team relay event run over 700km on some of the Kimberley's toughest terrain started in Derby on Sunday.It has attracted hundreds of competitors who, depending on their team size, ride between 20km and 120km ...
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Surge in women selling drugs
The number of women selling illegal drugs in WA has soared 78 per cent in a year, according to a report into Australia's drug trade.The Australian Crime Commission report shows 626 women were "providers" of illicit drugs in WA in 2011-12.The women represented more than 22 per cent of those arrested for importing, trafficking, selling, growing and manufacturing illicit drugs in the ...
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High tea hope for Regan
Amanda Smolic never ceases to be amazed by the resilience and fighting spirit of her five-year-old son Regan.The cherubic Dianella boy has spent 14 months in a titanic battle for one so young.But rather than light at the end of a long, black tunnel, his brain cancer has grown back and he faces another three months of chemotherapy.Regan also now has cancer in his spine."He's just such a ...
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Massive tornado strikes Oklahoma City
Children are trapped inside a school and areas of metropolitan Oklahoma City are in shreds after a massive tornado."The houses are destroyed completely levelled," a helicopter pilot for CNN affiliate KFOR said.The massive twister struck just south of Oklahoma City about 4.30am (Perth time).Buildings are on fire and people are starting to emerge from the rubble. There are no reports ...
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Wolf pack finds the Magic formula
SEB Salinas shot 34 points to continue his rich vein of State Basketball League form as the Wanneroo Wolves triumphed over the Mandurah Magic on Saturday. It was a victorious night all round in Mandurah for the Wolves camp, with the women's side back on the winner's list after a 64-42 win over the Magic. In the men's game, fifth-placed Mandurah took it up to the visitors early ...
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In 2011 a test...
THE Department of Environment and Conservation (DEC) has questioned if bird faeces should be held responsible for high bacteria levels at Champion Lakes Regatta Centre. In 2011, a test organised by the original managers of the centre, the Armadale Redevelopment Authority, found waterbird faeces was the cause of spikes in thermophilic amoebae. Manager VenuesWest, which now manages the centre, ...
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All systems go for place in Rio
AMBITIONS to get to the Rio Olympics are driving two local athletes whose sights are set on the coming World Swimming Championships and a shot at the 2016 Games. Rhys Mainstone will soon battle out the 5km, 10km and 25km open water events in Spain's Port of Barcelona. The 23-year-old, who narrowly missed a spot to London, said his focus was firmly on earning a medal at international and ...
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Super-sub Lyons does it for Lions
THE once powerful Perth SC were the latest scalp for the impressive Stirling Lions side after a 3-2 win at Macedonia Park on Saturday, in perfect playing conditions. Perth opened the scoring in the sixth minute thanks to Josh Pereira, with a long range strike from 35m that managed to find the bottom corner of the net. It wasn't until the 35th minute that the Lions capitalised on their set ...
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Paws out in all shapes and sizes
CROWDS of people flocked to Sir James Mitchell Park in South Perth on Sunday accompanied by their four-legged friends. The RSPCA Million Paws Walk 2013 took place with people opting for a 1km, 2.5km or 4km walk along the bank of the Swan River. Among them were Nicola and Mark Hastle with Koda the newfoundland (above left) and ...
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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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