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  • Frenchman on trial for Broome murder

    Broome 6725 Lawyers are making their final submissions to the jury in a three-week murder trial in Broome.23-year-old Frenchman Thomas Camus is on trial in the Supreme Court in Broome accused of fatally stabbing 32-year-old Pilbara man Kristopher Dixon on Christmas morning in 2011.Both men had been drinking with friends at the town's only nightclub.The jury has been shown graphic mobile ...

  • Rescue helicopter sent to fatal country crash

    Quindanning 6391 The rescue helicopter has been sent to the scene of a fatal car crash in Western Australia's South West.A man died after his vehicle hit a tree on the Harvey-Quindanning Road, about five kilometres from Quindanning near Harvey.Police say the accident occurred about 12:30 pm. (WST)Fire crews from Williams and Boddington worked to free the man from the car but he died at ...

  • Streets evacuated after gas main ruptures

    Busselton 6280 Authorities are at the scene of a ruptured gas main in Busselton.Police have closed off Bussell Highway between Queen Elizabeth Avenue and Carter Street. The Department of Fire and Emergency Services is at the scene and says it is considering evacuating a local ...

  • Rio Tinto cuts iron ore senior managers

    RIO Tinto's cost cutting measures have continued with its iron ore business getting a major restructure with president Greg Lilleyman taking on a new ...

  • 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.Some homes in West Busselton were evacuated with residents moved 100m away from the area.People in the area had been warned to remain inside with doors and windows closed as a precautionary measure while firefighters worked with contractors to make the area safe. The Department of ...


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Movie Review

Chicken Little

Chicken Little

Exhibit A in the case of Why Disney Needs Pixar is Chicken Little, Disneys first solo computer-animated effort. Although a perfectly presentable animated comedy, it lacks any sense of magic or true innovation. Its cobbled-together story feels like Childrens Comedy 101 thrown ... ...

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  • Ravenswood dog owner fined

    THE owner of a Pitbull cross that jumped a fence and attacked a Silky Terrier was fined $1250 when she appeared in Mandurah Magistrates Court on May ...

  • Elder praises police handling after riot

    That was the message from Aboriginal elder George Walley to participants in a riot at Pinjarra shopping centre on May 17.The riot, involving up to 20 people, resulted in the hospitalisation of a 77-year-old bystander.Senior Sergeant Ian Francis said rioters threw "anything they could get their hands on including cups and signs."Eleven adults and two juveniles have been ...

  • Housing crisis chokes refugees hope of new life

    Perth 6000 It's a measure of her desperation that Mary Deng would prefer a tent in a refugee camp in strife-torn Sudan to homelessness in Perth.Three years after arriving in Australia, Ms Deng, her four children and her brother still have no house to rent.While she's escaped the dangers and privations of a refugee camp in Sudan, she's enduring a different kind of suffering.Since ...

  • RAC chopper sent to Harvey crash

    THE RAC Rescue helicopter has been sent to the scene of car accident near Harvey where a motorist is injured after their car crashed into a ...

  • Man dies after car plunges into water in WAs south

    The pedestrian was killed early today when she was struck by a car near the corner of Tonkin and Great Eastern Highway, Ascot, just east of the city just before 10am. A man was found dead after his vehicle veered off a road and into a metre of water near Denmark on the south coast about 9am. Emergency services were called to Young's Siding, about 35km west of Albany on WA's south ...

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