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  • Costly search for new health department boss

    Perth 6000 The Public Sector Commission has conceded it has spent almost $100,000 in just two months trying to find a new Director General of Health. The position became vacant when Kim Snowball quit in December. According to a government tender document, the Commission had planned to spend $82,000 finding a suitable candidate between March and October of this year. But the ABC has learned ...

  • Water Corporation defends sewage dump at lake

    Joondalup 6027 The Water Corporation has defended its clean up of Lake Joondalup after 750,000 litres of sewage was discharged at the site. The incident occurred five months ago when a private contractor's pump failed and authorities used nearby bushland to contain the overflow. Labor MP Dave Kelly yesterday presented Parliament with a plastic bag filled with human waste and nappies he ...

  • WA man driving six times over limit

    A HIGHGATE man will face court next month after he was allegedly caught driving yesterday with a blood alcohol reading more than six times the legal ...

  • 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.Diagnosed with cancer at just two, she had 12 months of chemotherapy, flying between Perth and her home in Albany to get treatment. Doctors had found a 1kg tumour in her abdomen and the toddler had to have risky surgery. Vital blood vessels had tangled around the tumour and only a portion of it could be ...

  • Hollywood celeb visits Joondalup

    MARLON Wayans had "nothing but love" for the audience who packed out a Joondalup cinema on Sunday for a preview screening of his new film A Haunted House. Comedy fans lined up for over an hour for the chance to get an autograph and photo with the star ...


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Wings of Desire (Der Himmel über Berlin) [DVD]

Wings of Desire (Der Himmel über Berlin) [DVD]

Wings of Desire, which marked director Wim Wenders return to his native Germany after more than a decade making films in other countries, is dedicated to all the old angels, especially Yasujiro [Ozu], Franois [Truffaut], and Andrei [Tarkovsky]--all of whom are cinematic mast ... ...

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  • Two killed after trucks load explodes

    Wubin 6612 Police say two people have been killed in a traffic crash near Wubin, 300 kilometres north-east of Perth.A car and a triple road train carrying ammonium nitrate collided on the Great Northern Highway about 10:30 pm last night, 25 kilometres north of Wubin.The truck and its cargo burst into flames.Police say at least two people, the truck driver and a male passenger in the car, died ...

  • Two die in fiery Wheatbelt truck smash

    AT least two people have been killed in an horrific fiery truck and car collision near Wubin, 275km north-east of Perth - making five deaths inside 24 ...

  • Customers eat caustic soda instead of salt

    Customers at a South West fast food outlet have been rushed to hospital with burns after mistaking caustic soda for salt.A St John Ambulance spokesman said 14 people were treated for mouth and throat burns last night after they consumed caustic soda at a Chicken Treat outlet in Bunbury.It is understood an employee at Bunbury Chicken Treat may have confused salt with caustic soda.Two people were ...

  • 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.Bureau of Resources and Energy Economics figures show for the first time since the boom began that the value of new mining and energy projects in the resources sector is falling.A handful of big liquefied natural gas projects, including WA's $53 billion Gorgon ...

  • Horse rider dies in Donnybrook

    A rider has died after falling from a horse in Donnybrook in the State's South West.The rider was reported to police to have fallen off the animal about 5.15pm on Bentley Street.Coronial investigators were last night at the scene trying to establish cause of death, as it is unclear if the rider died of injuries sustained in the fall or other medical ...

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