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  • Witness tells inquest he heard mother yelling at son before he died in washing machine

    Hilton 6163 A witness has told the Perth Coroner's Court he heard his neighbour cursing and telling her young son to shut up in the hours before the toddler was found in a washing machine.Daniel Dickerson lived next door to Kerry Murphy, whose three-and-a-half-year-old son Shaun Murphy died at their Hilton home in September 2010.The inquest has heard Ms Murphy found Shaun and a pet cat ...

  • Green light for new CAT bus

    A FREE green CAT service operating between Leederville and the Perth CBD will start running in time for next months planned train ...

  • Toddler yelled at before washer death

    A neighbour has told a coronial inquest into the puzzling death of a toddler who died after becoming stuck inside a closed washing machine that he heard the child crying and his mother yelling at him on the morning of his death.Daniel Dickerson testified today in the inquest into the death of three-year-old Sean Murphy in Hilton on September 20, 2010. His pet cat Snowy was dead inside the ...

  • McGowan says freeze impacting frontline policing

    Rockingham 6168 The Opposition Leader Mark McGowan says a stationery shortage at the Rockingham police station is having a direct impact on frontline services.The State Government recently placed a six week freeze on non-essential stationery items across all agencies to reduce expenditure.An email obtained by the Opposition has revealed Rockingham police asked other stations to donate notepads ...

  • Potential Durack Liberal candidates mooted

    WA Several names are being put forward as potential Liberal candidates for the federal seat of Durack, the largest electorate in the country.The Western Australian seat covers almost 1.6 million square kilometres.It stretches from the Wheatbelt town of Merredin, up to Kununurra in the far north.At the weekend, the sitting Liberal MP Barry Haase announced he was retiring.He holds Durack by 13.7 ...


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Movie Review

Point Break [DVD]

Point Break [DVD]

In one way or another, cops-and-robbers movies have always been about the relationship between the two. Even if they don't actually meet face-to-face until the last act, the cop and the robber engage in a complicated relationship throughout the movie, although that relationship is often mediated through tracking clues, chasing, and running. The best movies of this sort make us realize that, w ... ...

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  • Police speak to family of lockup bashing victim

    Broome 6725 Senior police have visited a remote community in Western Australia's Kimberley to speak to the family of an Aboriginal man assaulted by officers at the Broome police station.The behaviour of officers at the station has come under scrutiny as the Crime and Corruption Commission (CCC) investigates two separate assaults on men taken into custody in recent months.The most serious ...

  • Curtin University maps hidden Moon craters using gravity and surface data

    Manning 6152 Researchers have found 280 new craters on the Moon by combining data about its gravity and surface for the first time. The project, conducted by a team at Curtin University in Perth, started with a Federal Government grant to develop a high-resolution image of the earth's gravity.Researchers then applied the same technique to the Moon which allowed them to reveal more ...

  • Carles sues Satterley over jilted tag

    The defamation battle between Western Australia's treasurer Troy Buswell and his former parliamentary lover Adele Carles has taken a twist, with the deposed MP revealing she is attempting to sue millionaire property developer Nigel ...

  • Carles attempts to sue developer

    The defamation battle between State Treasurer Troy Buswell and his former parliamentary lover Adele Carles has taken a twist, with the deposed MP revealing she is attempting to sue millionaire property developer Nigel Satterley.Ms Carles is being sued for defamation by the controversial WA treasurer, after their affair spectacularly soured in public late last year amid allegations of ...

  • Italian tourist charged over hit and run

    Subiaco 6008 Police have charged an Italian tourist over a hit and run crash in the Perth suburb of Subiaco.A 25-year-old man was taken to hospital in a critical condition in the early hours of Sunday morning after being hit by a car on Thomas Street.Police say a 29-year-old man from Italy has been charged with several offences including failing to stop and render assistance after an accident ...

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