Friday, May 24th, 2013

WA News

Dust-up over Port Hedland marina

Regional Development Minister Brendon Grylls says the Department of Health and BHP Billiton are using the perceived health risks of iron ore dust to thwart development in Port Hedland.
May 23, 2013, 5:33 am
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State bans on TV bets 'won't work'

State laws to clamp down on the broadcast of live betting odds was unlikely to work because telecasts often came from other States, Premier Colin Barnett said yesterday.
May 23, 2013, 5:44 am
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End of boom 'to hit WA hard'

The resources investment boom is over, a new report has found, casting more doubt on the strength of the WA and national economies.
May 23, 2013, 5:34 am
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Water Corp denies sewage dump

The Water Corporation has denied Opposition accusations in Parliament that it unnecessarily dumped 750,000 litres of sewage in Lake Joondalup, where nappies and sanitary napkins remained strewn.
May 23, 2013, 5:32 am
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Fun house big help in dire days

By the age of three, Danielle Fleer had spent more than a third of her life in hospital.
May 23, 2013, 5:27 am

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$1m babies a strain on families

The cost of raising children in Australia has risen twice as fast as household income, figures show.
May 23, 2013, 5:25 am

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Cold will test Big Apple swimmers

It seems an unlikely training ground but the icy waters of Lake Leschenaultia in the Perth Hills have proved the best substitute for a group of open-water swimmers trying to simulate New York's Hudson and East rivers.
May 23, 2013, 4:32 am

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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.
May 23, 2013, 2:50 am

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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.
May 23, 2013, 2:40 am

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Homebuyer sues over plane noise

A teacher is suing a real estate agent after buying a Greenmount home she alleges was advertised as in a "whisper quiet location" even though it is under a flight path.
May 23, 2013, 2:30 am

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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.
May 23, 2013, 2:20 am

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Two dead in truck fire

Two men died and another was injured after a horror crash which saw a truck carrying ammonium nitrate catch fire on the Great Northern Highway last night.
May 23, 2013, 12:13 am

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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.
May 22, 2013, 6:20 pm
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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.
May 22, 2013, 3:38 pm
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Man, 63, charged after fatal bike crash

A 63-year-old man has been charged after a crash which resulted in the death of a motorcyclist in Northbridge earlier this month.
May 22, 2013, 3:31 pm
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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.
May 22, 2013, 3:14 pm

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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.
May 22, 2013, 2:59 pm

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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.
May 22, 2013, 2:36 pm
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Man dies after car veers into water

A 47-year-old man has died after his car rolled off a road and into a creek near Albany overnight.
May 22, 2013, 1:42 pm

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Man questioned over Narrogin death

A 48-year-old man has been taken into custody over the death of a Narrogin mother on Saturday.
May 22, 2013, 1:03 pm
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