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Volunteers at low point as fire season approaches

Volunteer firefighters say they are on the brink of returning their equipment as mass confusion and low morale from the deepening Keelty report saga mar their preparation for the summer fire season.
September 5, 2011, 5:46 am
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Caporn, Hynes get key roles in restructure

Tainted former police officer Dave Caporn and discredited Fire and Emergency Services Authority chief operations officer Craig Hynes have been given senior roles in the restructure of the agency.
September 5, 2011, 5:46 am
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Reform must be swift and transparent

The emergence of evidence contradicting key assertions in the Keelty report should not be seen as proof that a wholesale restructure of emergency management in WA is unnecessary.
September 5, 2011, 5:45 am
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Call for more female engineers

In a bid to get more women studying engineering courses, university students are teaching girls how to build and program robots.
September 5, 2011, 5:43 am

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Uni score predictions criticised

Parents have raised concerns about the pressure placed on students by schools predicting their final tertiary entrance rank, a year and a half before they even sit Year 12 exams.
September 5, 2011, 5:43 am

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Fingers crossed for bumper harvest

The drought-induced pain looks set to end for WA wheat farmers, with predictions of a bumper crop because of consistent rainfall and mild temperatures.
September 5, 2011, 5:42 am
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Probe into devastating blaze

A bush fire which engulfed competitors in an international running event near Kununurra on Friday may have started as a controlled burn.
September 5, 2011, 3:00 am

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MPs to probe FESA blaze claims

A powerful parliamentary committee is set to probe how evidence contradicting scathing findings against the Fire and Emergency Services Authority failed to make it into the final report that triggered the authority's restructure.
September 5, 2011, 2:35 am

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Gillard's choice: deal with Left or Abbott

Julia Gillard faces a choice between cutting a deal with Tony Abbott to bring back the Pacific Solution or appeasing Labor's Left by scrapping offshore processing of asylum claims following the release of top-level legal advice.
September 5, 2011, 2:25 am

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British PM locked in for CHOGM

British Prime Minister David Cameron is locked in to attend CHOGM, headlining a group of more than 50 world leaders expected to gather in Perth next month.
September 5, 2011, 2:15 am
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Lawyers request godless preamble

Mateship, the Anzac spirit and Christianity should be excluded from planned changes to Australia's Constitution, the Law Society of WA says.
September 5, 2011, 2:05 am
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New site to help fight scammers

The war on scammers has been boosted with extra ammunition in the form of a new website.
September 4, 2011, 12:43 pm

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Millions of voters say WA is tops

Millions of readers of a Chinese tourism publication have voted WA as the Best New Destination of the Year, the State Government says.
September 4, 2011, 11:44 am

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Drivers charged after police chases

Police have charged a 21-year-old Ellenbrook man who allegedly fled his car after it was pulled over and then led officers on a foot chase last night.
September 4, 2011, 9:27 am
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Police seek witnesses in Seabird fatal crash

Police are searching for the driver or passengers in a small, dark-coloured car which was involved in a three-vehicle pile-up in which a 64-year-old man died.
September 3, 2011, 2:57 pm

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O'Callaghan denies fire report claims

Police Commissioner Karl O'Callaghan has denied claims he was contacted several times throughout the day about the growing ferocity of the Hills bushfire in February.
September 3, 2011, 2:00 pm

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Family salute former defence chief

Most people know retired Air Chief Marshal Angus Houston as the stoic and compassionate head of the Australian Defence Force, which he led for six years until early July.
September 3, 2011, 8:13 am

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Fire traps ultramarathon runners in gorge

UPDATE: A 24-year-old Broome man has spoken of his lucky escape in a freak fire which engulfed a marathon race near Kununurra yesterday.
September 3, 2011, 8:07 am

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Couple seek answers on son's sudden death

The grieving family and friends of a Perth teenager who collapsed and died while watching a football game are hoping to get answers about his sudden death.
September 3, 2011, 3:00 am

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Barnett wants answers on fire

A furious Colin Barnett was last night demanding answers from Police Commissioner Karl O'Callaghan after a politically explosive report revealed WA's top cop was told on "several occasions" about the growing ferocity of the Perth Hills bushfire of February 6.
September 3, 2011, 2:50 am

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