Thursday, May 23rd, 2013

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Golf club hunts vandals

Golf club hunts vandals

A Forrestfield golf club is offering a $10,000 reward after vandals broke in, damaged fairways and destroyed greens.

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.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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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Man killed after car hits tree

Update 4.30pm: A man was killed when he crashed his car into a tree near Harvey this afternoon.
May 22, 2013, 1:02 pm
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Water main bursts in Nollamara

Update, 2.15pm:A water main was burst by a contractor on a Nollamara street this morning, causing water to spray metres into the air.
May 22, 2013, 12:15 pm

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App separates cane toads from frog princes

A new app will help people identify toxic cane toads from harmless native frogs in WA’s Kimberley region.
May 22, 2013, 12:13 pm

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Pedestrian killed on Tonkin Highway

A pedestrian was killed when she was hit by a car on Tonkin Highway in Ascot this morning.
May 22, 2013, 11:23 am

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NDIS will have losers: Barnett

There will be “winners and losers” under the federal government’s disability insurance scheme, Premier Colin Barnett says.
May 22, 2013, 11:01 am
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Barnett says promises are not broken

Two months after the State election is too soon to start claiming the State Government is breaking election promises, Premier Colin Barnett says.
May 22, 2013, 10:30 am

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Teens charged over alleged cop hit-run

Police have charged three teenagers after they allegedly knocked over a Senior Constable who was trying to stop them while carrying out speed detection duties on Albany Highway in Beckenham.
May 22, 2013, 9:08 am
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