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Toddler yelled at before washer death
A neighbour has told a coronial inquest into the puzzling death of a toddler who died after becoming stuck inside a closed washing machine that he heard the child crying and his mother yelling at him on the morning of his death.Daniel Dickerson testified today in the inquest into the death of three-year-old Sean Murphy in Hilton on September 20, 2010. His pet cat Snowy was dead inside the ...
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McGowan says freeze impacting frontline policing
Rockingham 6168 The Opposition Leader Mark McGowan says a stationery shortage at the Rockingham police station is having a direct impact on frontline services.The State Government recently placed a six week freeze on non-essential stationery items across all agencies to reduce expenditure.An email obtained by the Opposition has revealed Rockingham police asked other stations to donate notepads ...
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Potential Durack Liberal candidates mooted
WA Several names are being put forward as potential Liberal candidates for the federal seat of Durack, the largest electorate in the country.The Western Australian seat covers almost 1.6 million square kilometres.It stretches from the Wheatbelt town of Merredin, up to Kununurra in the far north.At the weekend, the sitting Liberal MP Barry Haase announced he was retiring.He holds Durack by 13.7 ...
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Police speak to family of lockup bashing victim
Broome 6725 Senior police have visited a remote community in Western Australia's Kimberley to speak to the family of an Aboriginal man assaulted by officers at the Broome police station.The behaviour of officers at the station has come under scrutiny as the Crime and Corruption Commission (CCC) investigates two separate assaults on men taken into custody in recent months.The most serious ...
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Curtin University maps hidden Moon craters using gravity and surface data
Manning 6152 Researchers have found 280 new craters on the Moon by combining data about its gravity and surface for the first time. The project, conducted by a team at Curtin University in Perth, started with a Federal Government grant to develop a high-resolution image of the earth's gravity.Researchers then applied the same technique to the Moon which allowed them to reveal more ...
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Carles sues Satterley over jilted tag
The defamation battle between Western Australia's treasurer Troy Buswell and his former parliamentary lover Adele Carles has taken a twist, with the deposed MP revealing she is attempting to sue millionaire property developer Nigel ...
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Carles attempts to sue developer
The defamation battle between State Treasurer Troy Buswell and his former parliamentary lover Adele Carles has taken a twist, with the deposed MP revealing she is attempting to sue millionaire property developer Nigel Satterley.Ms Carles is being sued for defamation by the controversial WA treasurer, after their affair spectacularly soured in public late last year amid allegations of ...
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Carles petitions for developers inclusion in defamation case
Perth 6000 The WA Supreme Court has heard that former MP Adele Carles wants to include a millionaire property developer in the defamation action being taken against her by her former partner, Treasurer Troy Buswell.Ms Carles is the former member for Fremantle and is being sued by Mr Buswell over claims she made about his behaviour in December last year.At a directions hearing this morning, the ...
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Producer wants new venue for musicals
International stage producer John Frost has bemoaned the lack of a lyric theatre in Perth, saying major musicals are not staged in the city because of this missing link in performing arts venues.Mr Frost, in Perth with his production of Driving Miss Daisy, said Perth would miss out on two of his other shows, Legally Blonde and Grease.He urged the State Government to act on a recent report that ...
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Shutdown eased by new CAT
A FREE green CAT service operating between Leederville and Perth CBD will start running in time for next month's planned train disruptions. The 19-stop service will start operations on Monday, July 1, running every 7-8 minutes from 6.30am to 7.30pm on weekdays. Buses will also run at 6am and 6.15am. Public Transport Authority (PTA) spokesman David Hynes said the service would help ...
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Alarm as tree roots spread
TAPPING residents are concerned for the safety of their homes saying they have noticed big tree roots encroaching on their properties. Geoff Newman said his street Nankeen Circle was lined with London plane trees and he had noticed damage to the street's footpaths and his retaining wall. He said the City of Wanneroo had been called to fix sections of the footpaths on many occasions and ...
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Sex industry myths refuted
Rebecca Davies challenges the perceptions that the sex industry and its workers are some kind of threat to public health. In fact, when it comes to safer sex they are the ...
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106 boarders apply for sex abuse compo
More than 100 former WA hostel boarders have applied for sex abuse compensation after the Blaxell inquiry examined a litany of abuse across WA ...
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Airport dispute drags into fourth week
SECURITY screening staff at Perth Airport's Qantas terminal have dug in for a fourth week of industrial action as they remain embroiled in a wage dispute with employer MSS ...
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Man charged over ATM robbery
A 33-year-old man has been charged with robbery, fraud and stealing after an alleged attempting mugging in Kardinya last week.Police will allege the man tried to mug someone at an ATM in Kardinya about 4.15pm on Monday, June 10.He has been charged with attempted robbery and stealing, as well as six counts of fraud and three counts of stealing related to other incidents.The Yangebup man is due to ...
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River water quality improves
THE Department of Water (DoW) says water quality in the Canning River has improved over the past two decades despite a two-year ecosystem study finding a small number of contaminants still lurking. The study assessed the ecological health of the Canning River above Kent Street Weir in Wilson during December 2009 to September 2011. No health risks towards residents were identified in the ...
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Weapons find during search
Detective First Class Constable Nathan Nunn with the semiautomatic shotgun police found during a house search. Picture: Emma Reeves ...
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Police patrols deter street crime
Senior Sergeant Craig Davis with businessman Graeme Harris, who would like the increased police patrols to continue in the Midland region. Picture: Bruce Hunt ...
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Students cook up a career
Years 11 and 12 Hospitality students Reuben Kaio (16), Kijata Pedrocchi (15) and Benita McGinty (17) with apprentice chef at Crown Casino Joseph Morgan. Picture: Marie Nirme ...
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Opening for new park
OGILVIE Road Park in Mt Pleasant was once a water treatment site, but now the revamped park is a community focal point. It will be officially opened this Sunday, with a free barbecue. The City of Melville bought the old Water Corporation site at 72 Ogilvie Road for $3.3 million in March, 2012, to use as open space after hundreds of local residents rallied the council to buy the land in 2010. ...
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Multi-storey still on table
COCKBURN City Council will hold off until its August general meeting before deciding whether to push forward with a multi-storey car park at Cockburn Central. A report into the proposal for a car park that could house between 200 and 800 cars said commuters would need to fork out $11 a day for parking for the City to cover its cost. That figure was considered too high. Instead of scrapping the ...
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Local content on major resources projects climbs
Perth 6000 The WA State Government says the latest report on local content in the resources sector belies claims by the opposition that local companies are being sidelined.The report, to be tabled in parliament today, reveals more than 108,000 jobs have been created in the sector in the past two years, most of them in construction.It says the jobs are part of $43 billion locally awarded ...
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I killed my baby I know I did
Those were the words of distressed mother Kerry Murphy as paramedics tried unsuccessfully to revive her three-year-old son, Sean, who was found in a front-loader washing machine with his dead pet cat, Snowy.The West Australian coroner is investigating how the boy could have accessed the washing machine and whether washing machine safety standards need improving.In her opening address today, ...
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Jaws-of-of-life used in Coolup crash
EMERGENCY workers had to use jaws-of-life equipment to free an injured motorist from their crushed car after a serious traffic smash on South West Highway, near Coolup early ...
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Machete bandit holds up pharmacy
Police are looking for a machete-wielding thug who held up a pharmacy in Belmont last night.About 6.20pm, a man entered a pharmacy on Belmont Avenue, approached the counter and tried to steal cash from the open register.When staff members tried to stop him, he threatened them with a machete.The offender fled on foot with cash and was last seen riding a mountain bike towards Wicca Park, near ...
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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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