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  • WA taxes carry nation

    Almost $15 billion more in taxes leaves WA each year than flows back into the State in Commonwealth spending, a WA Treasury analysis shows.The report spotlights the extent WA carries the rest of the Australian Federation.It shows WA's net contribution to the other States and Territories is a staggering $6447 for each resident, way beyond that of the other two donor States - NSW and ...

  • AHA seeks tough line on violence

    People convicted of serious assaults, including domestic violence, as a result of being drunk could be banned from pubs and clubs for up to a year under a proposal by WA's hotel lobby.But the Australian Hotels Association WA also wants the "1950s restriction" that requires pubs to close at 10pm on Sundays scrapped.Releasing its submission to the review of the Liquor Control Act, ...

  • Search for man after armed hold-ups

    Police are searching for a man who they believe can help with their investigations into armed hold-ups at four stores across Perth during the past ten days.Police are looking for 24-year-old John Paul Crossland who is described as 175cm tall with fair skin, a slim build and a shaved head.Police said members of the public were advised not to approach him as he may react unpredictably.At 7.40pm on ...

  • Two dead in truck fire

    Two people are dead and another injured after a horror crash which saw a truck carrying ammonium nitrate catch fire on the Great Northern Highway.The crash occurred about 10:40pm last night when a vehicle collided with the truck about 30km north of Wubin.Initial reports suggested two people died at the scene and another person was being treated for shock.Ammonium nitrate is a fertiliser that is ...

  • McKenna shocked at abuse allegations

    A former supervisor at Katanning's infamous St Andrews Hostel accused of molesting female boarders told police he liked to treat children like adults but did nothing that went beyond being friendly.Wayne McKenna, 63, repeatedly said "no comment" to detectives last year as they revealed allegations he indecently dealt with the two girls at the Wheatbelt hostel in 1980 and ...


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M [DVD]

Fritz Langs M is one of the great film thrillers, a seminal exercise in combining suspense and social commentary. Its influence on world cinema is so far-ranging that its mind-numbing to try to trace it all. Suffice it to say that M is a prototypical masterpiece, po ... ...

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  • Sewage discharged near lake not cleaned up

    Joondalup 6027 Labor MP Dave Kelly says the Government must explain why 750,000 litres of sewage was discharged in Lake Joondalup and still has not been cleaned up.The sewage was discharged from a pumping station on the banks of the lake last November after a private contractor's sewage pump failed. Mr Kelly says the Water Corporation should never have allowed it to occur.He says there ...

  • Man held over Narrogin womans death

    Kevin James Corbett (pictured) was taken into custody today and is being quizzed by Major Crime detectives in connection with the death of Charmaine Louise Winmar, 36, who was found fatally stabbed in her Narrogin home on Saturday.No charges have been laid and police inquiries are continuing.Anyone with information about the woman's death can contact Crime Stoppers on 1800 ...

  • Go-ahead for plant to convert waste into electricity

    Port Hedland 6721 The State Government has given final environmental approval for a facility in the Pilbara that would convert domestic waste into electricity.New Energy's facility near Port Hedland would be the first of its size in Australia.The plant is expected to process up to 255,000 tonnes of waste a year and potentially power 21,000 homes.It will also include a recycling ...

  • Man charged over fatal motorbike crash

    A 63-year-old Stirling man has been charged with dangerous driving occasioning death following a Major Crash investigation.About 5.30am on May 10, a 74-year-old man was riding his Honda motorcycle south on Fitzgerald Street when it collided with a Daewoo sedan being driven north along the same road.Police will allege it was the 63-year-old man who was driving the Daewoo when the crash occurred ...

  • Stirling man charged over crash

    POLICE have charged a 63-year-old Stirling man with dangerous driving occasioning death after his car and a motorcycle collided in Northbridge on May ...

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