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  • Love your sister stop in Margaret River

    TELEVISION personality Samuel Johnson is visiting Margaret River as part of his epic around-Australia unicycle challenge to honour his sister Connie, who is dying of breast ...

  • More funding for indigenous program

    WA The Aboriginal Health Council of Western Australia has welcomed the State Government's announcement it will continue to fund an initiative aimed at improving the health and wellbeing of indigenous Australians. The Health Minister Kim Hames has announced the government will pour a further $30 million into the 'Closing the Gap' program, a joint State and Federal venture aimed ...

  • Inquiry calls for WA Irish child victims

    NUMEROUS Irish child abuse victims are thought to be living in Western Australia, and a major inquiry into historical institutional abuse in Northern Ireland is appealing for them to come ...

  • Molotov cocktail thrown in Rockingham

    The police arson squad is investigating a fire at a vacant commercial property in Rockingham overnight.About 2.40am, firefighters were called to a building on Rockingham Beach Road, near Churchill Park.The target of the arson attack was formerly a clothing store called Atika Boutique.A police spokeswoman said someone threw a rock through the front window, followed by a Molotov cocktail.The blaze ...

  • Dolphins take spin to help good cause

    Robin Russell and Heather Gale (past and current Rotary club presidents respectively) dress the dolphins for the occasion. Picture: Emma ...


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Pitch Black

"Pitch Black" doesn't waste much time getting started. After a few brief credits and a standard establishing shot of a giant space cruiser moving slowly through the vast reaches of outer space, we are immediately hurled into a maniacally paced action sequence where said space cruiser is damaged by a rogue comet, the captain is killed by flying debris, and the second-in-command, Fry (Radha Mitchel ... ...

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  • Concerns of an over-supply of city offices

    Perth 6000 A Perth property analyst is predicting an over-supply of city offices and a delay in the development of Elizabeth Quay if the resources sector continues to slow. The $2.6 billion dollar project on Perth's waterfront is due to be finished in 2015.But Damian Stone of Y Research says it's unlikely the 200,000 square metres of office space will be completed on time. He says ...

  • Police investigate arson attack in Rockingham

    Rockingham 6168 Police are investigating an arson attack on a shop in Rockingham.A brick was thrown through the window of the shop on Railway Terrace about 2:30 am today before an accelerant was used to start a fire.Damage has been estimated at ...

  • Graylands patients treated by unauthorised doctor

    Claremont 6010 More than 200 patients at the state's largest mental health facility may have been treated by an unauthorised doctor who was not fully qualified. The doctor at Graylands Hospital was authorised to treat psychiatric patients until 2010, when the Mental Health Act was amended and his application to be registered as a psychiatrist was refused.However, earlier this week it ...

  • Taxi driver stabbed in hand

    The taxi driver was attacked shortly after he arrived at a car park just off Flinders Street about 8pm.Police say the driver was approached by a dark skinned man, wearing dark clothing wielding a knife who demanded money.The man then lent through the taxi and struck the driver on the hand with the knife.He then fled the scene, jumping into a white Holden Commodore which had several other men and ...

  • WA cop charged over computer access

    The 49-year-old senior constable will appear in the Rockingham Magistrates Court today charged with six counts of unlawful computer use which is alleged to have occurred between December 2011 and November 2012 at a metropolitan police station.The officer remains in an operational capacity at a Perth ...

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