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  • Police investigate possible drug lab in Busselton

    Busselton 6280 Police are investigating a possible clandestine drug laboratory in West Busselton.Detectives raided the Peake Street property earlier today and found items they say may be consistent with the manufacture of drugs.Officers from the Organised Crime Squad and ChemCentre are processing several items of interest at the scene.One person has been taken into custody while the items are ...

  • Man jailed over crashed that killed his cousin

    Keysbrook 6126 A 30-year-old man has been sentenced to ten months jail for causing a crash in Keysbrook that claimed the life of his cousin and then fleeing the scene.Razak Simon Bin Saad pleaded guilty to dangerous driving causing the death of Dwain Lawrence in January.Bin Saad's partner was also in the car and was injured.The District Court was told the pair did not report the crash to ...

  • Mix on top as Sattler takes a hit

    6PR's Sattler was diagnosed with Parkinson's disease last year and since then his ratings have been varied.He enjoyed a spike during the previous radio survey, but was again down 1.1 points in the latest Nielsen results released today, to hold 8.4 per cent of the audience.Nova 937 continue to dominate the drive timeslot gaining another 1.4 points, bringing its audience share to 15.2 ...

  • Ban unvaccinated kids - Hames

    Health Minister Dr Kim Hames says he has no problem with individual child care centres banning unvaccinated kids, but won't be legislating on ...

  • CCC demand police presence at alleged assault hearing

    Broome 6725 Thirteen police officers from Broome will be flown to Perth to give evidence as the Corruption and Crime Commission investigates an alleged police assault at the town's lock-up.Video footage recorded at the Broome police station last month allegedly shows a 31-year-old constable assaulting an Aboriginal man taken into custody on a minor charge. After viewing CCTV footage of ...


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Movie Review

That Obscure Object of Desire (Cet obscur objet du désir) [DVD]

That Obscure Object of Desire (Cet obscur objet du désir) [DVD]

There are times when major dilemmas during the production of a film result in some inspired artistic decisions. For instance, Brian De Palma's brilliant reimagining of Sergei Eisenstein's Odessa Steps sequence in The Untouchables (1987) was improvised on-set when De Palma decided he didn't like the scene as scripted by David Mamet. Another of the most famous "happy accidents" is the ending ... ...

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  • A controversial skate park planned for Fremantle

    Fremantle 6160 It's been years in the planning, and in just a few months bobcats and bulldozers will roll in to start work on a $1.5-million skate park on Fremantle's famed Esplanade Reserve.Fremantle Mayor Brad Pettit hopes it will rejuvenate the area and bring young people back into the heart of the portside city.But, not everyone's happy.A recent meeting held by the Fremantle ...

  • Bid to recycle old mattresses

    The State Government hopes to expand a mattress recycling project in a bid to reduce the amount of waste going to landfill each year.About 150,000 mattresses are being thrown away every year in the Perth and Peel regions.Through the WA Waste Authority's strategic waste initiative scheme, the Government provided $116,000 to the Eastern Metropolitan Regional Council for a mattress recycling ...

  • WA crisis meeting on Aboriginal suicide

    Robert Eggington is among indigenous leaders to meet with WA bureaucrats over rising suicide levels among the Noongah community.Picture: Richard ...

  • WA teen exercise rates drop academic

    EXERCISE rates among high school children in Western Australia are declining to alarming levels, fuelling health concerns, an academic ...

  • Seven West appoints new CEO

    newspaper and Pacific Magazines. He began his career as a journalist with Seven News in Perth, and advanced to become the director of programming and production in 2002. Mr Worner takes over from former oil industry boss Don Voelte, who became CEO in mid-2012. "Don has always been quite clear that his management role at Seven West Media was only for the short term and that his job was to ...

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