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  • 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 ...

  • 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 ...


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The Omen (2006)

The Omen (2006)

The opening scene of John Moore's remake of 1976's The Omen presents us with a series of uneasy recent news images--the space shuttle exploding, the Twin Towers falling, the tsunami in Thailand, violence in the Middle East--that are meant to be interpreted as the fulfillment of signs in Bi ... ...

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  • Ban unvaccinated kids - Health Minister

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

  • 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 ...

  • West Australian describes tornado terror

    Australians living in tornado-ravaged Oklahoma are bracing for more of the killer twisters that have ripped through the US State."I've lived here for 30 years and this is unprecedented," Kerry Vincent, the world-renowned, WA-born cake designer, said from her home in Tulsa, Oklahoma on Monday."My heart bleeds for my friends who I can't find."There's so many dead ...

  • Police charge man after pursuit through Goldfields

    Norseman 6443 A 23-year-old man has been charged with a string of offences after a pursuit through the Goldfields. Police say they were chasing a stolen vehicle in Norseman yesterday but had to abort the pursuit because the man was driving 'incredibly recklessly'.The vehicle was later spotted in Kambalda, Coolgardie, Southern Cross and Kalgoorlie-Boulder, allegedly reaching speeds of ...

  • Hoax aircraft crash call cost $20000

    HOAX calls that triggered a search for a crashed aircraft in Western Australia cost more than $20,000 and wasted valuable human resources, The Australian Maritime Safety Authority (AMSA) ...

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