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  • Rider injured as police close in

    A WA Police spokesman said about 10pm Southeast Metropolitan District Crime team officers on Armadale Road saw someone ride a motorbike off a sidewalk into their path. They activated their emergency lights to try to stop the rider, but police will allege he failed to stop and accelerated away. Two minutes later, Regional Operations Group officers, also patrolling in Armadale, drove past the same ...

  • Millions spent as revival of Muja power station stalls

    Collie 6225 The State Opposition is calling on the government to explain why it has spent $250 million on a failed attempt to revive the mothballed Muja power station.In 2009, the government announced the private sector would pay to refurbish the ageing coal-fired station, by December 2011.Four years on, the facility still is not fully operational and Labor says it is taxpayers, not the ...

  • Brian Burke faces insider trading trial

    Burke, 66, entered the plea in person at Stirling Gardens Magistrates Court in Perth today.His co-accused, former Patersons Securities stockbroker David John Massey, 57, also pleaded not guilty to the same charges.The charges followed secret recordings by the Corruption and Crime Commission (CCC) of Burke's phone calls some six years ago, which were passed on to federal authorities.It is ...

  • Botched power station fix to cost taxpayers $250m

    A disastrous refurbishment of a 47-year-old electricity generation plant at Verve's Muja Power Station near Collie could see taxpayer losses exceed $250 million.The Opposition will today in State Parliament pursue what it describes as a "genuine scandal", seeking answers from Energy Minister Mike Nahan and the Government about what went so wrong.In May 2009, when Colin Barnett ...

  • WA health budget under spotlight

    WA health chiefs say they have yet to work through the impact of the State Government' salary cap directive on its workforce while refusing to rule out the prospect of needing a $150 million Budget top-up.It comes as it emerged the Government faced paying private facilities manager Serco on 29 separate services as a result of its decision to delay the staged opening of the $2 billion Fiona ...


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Dodes'ka-den [DVD]

Dodes'ka-den [DVD]

The title of Akira Kurosawas Dodeska-den is not a real word, but rather an onomatopoeia for the sound of a trolley car clacking along its rails that is used by a simple-minded teenager who lives in a shanty-town slum on the outskirts of Tokyo. The film begins and ends with the boy, ... ...

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  • Witness tells inquest boys house unhygienic filthy

    Hilton 6163 A witness has told an inquest in Perth that the house where a young boy died in a washing machine was filthy and unhygienic.Rick Goodman was testifying at the inquest into the death of three-year-old Sean Murphy who was found, with his pet cat, inside a front loading washing machine in September 2010.Mr Goodman told the inquest about seven months before the death, he stayed at ...

  • Four face court over millions in imported drug haul

    Fremantle 6160 Three men and one woman accused of attempting to import up to $13 million worth of drugs into Perth have appeared in court.Li Chun Huang, Chung Yin Tam, Jacky Lee and Michael Quoc Hong Ly were arrested earlier this year during an operation involving federal police, the Australian Crime Commission and Customs officers.Officers intercepted 35 kilograms of methamphetamine hidden in ...

  • Call for Colliers head over $250m bungle

    LABOR is demanding the resignation of former energy minister Peter Collier over what it is calling a $250 million power scandal in ...

  • Greens want Burrup rock art protected

    The Australian Greens want Aboriginal rock art in WA's Burrup Peninsula to be protected and are pushing for the area to be given world heritage status.Speaking with indigenous representatives from the Burrup region, Greens senator Scott Ludlam said the area had been treated by successive governments with "profound contempt"."We think nothing less than world heritage standing ...

  • Dog loses leg after Kenwick attack

    Veterinarian Nicole Lobry de Bruyn okwho works at Kenwick Veterinary Hospital said the incident happened in the early hours of Sunday, June 16.She said the attack had left her feeling extremely concerned about the attacking dog that could still be roaming the streets."In all my years as a veterinarian I have rarely seen the results of such a vicious attack, especially on such a big strong ...

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