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| UpdatedPauline Hanson concedes it will be tough to keep her planned field of 60 One Nation candidates on message during the WA election campaign, but says it will be up to voters to make their own decision at the polling booth.
Topics: one-nation, elections, states-and-territories, pauline-hanson, bunbury-6230, perth-6000, wa
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| UpdatedEuropean settlement has altered Australia's environment in ways we're only now beginning to understand, and nowhere is that more clear than in WA's South West.
Topics: environment, environmental-impact, environmental-policy, environmental-management, climate-change, forestry, rainfall, drought, bunbury-6230
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| UpdatedThe WA Nationals want to use funds from their proposed state mining tax to resurrect a long-touted plan to connect Perth's passenger rail network to the regional city of Bunbury.
Topics: government-and-politics, rail-transport, bunbury-6230, mandurah-6210, wa
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| UpdatedAfter a rare brain disease took the life of John Olsen's partner, he honours her memory by hiking across the entire country in a bid to raise money for a cure.
Topics: diseases-and-disorders, health, wa, perth-6000, bunbury-6230
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Australia's first Aboriginal grower group has been officially established by DAFWA.
Topics: aboriginal, agricultural-crops, crop-harvesting, vegetables, land-management, land-rights, native-title, moore-river-national-park-6503, esperance-6450, albany-6330, bunbury-6230, perth-6000
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Policing in Western Australia to have a scientific basis as video trial nears end
Topics: research, bunbury-6230, perth-6000
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A man is charged with throwing a brick at a firefighter who was battling a blaze at a house in Bunbury, south of Perth.
Topics: crime, fires, bunbury-6230
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| UpdatedThe Anglican Church was aware of the inappropriate behaviour of a serial paedophile priest as far back as the early 2000s but failed to act, the Diocese of Bunbury admits.
Topics: sexual-offences, law-crime-and-justice, courts-and-trials, anglicans, royal-commissions, bunbury-6230, perth-6000, albany-6330, wa
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A south-west guide dog owner believes entry refusal is on the increase, despite guide dogs being legally allowed to enter all public places.
Topics: dog, human-interest, bunbury-6230
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| UpdatedIn Noongar country, in the south-west of Western Australia, researchers are building the first Wikipedia site in an Aboriginal Australian language.
Topics: indigenous-culture, history, aboriginal-language, languages, internet-technology, bunbury-6230
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| UpdatedThe soft flickering of a campfire and seductive smell of smoke can be pleasing to the senses, but is it a primal instinct?
Topics: fires, psychology, bunbury-6230
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Schools participating in a "surf therapy" program in Bunbury are reporting significant improvements in students' anxiety levels and engagement in school.
Topics: disabilities, surfing, education, bunbury-6230, wa
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| UpdatedA Bunbury volunteer group urgently needs funds to keep working with ice addicts and their families.
Topics: volunteers, drugs-and-substance-abuse, bunbury-6230
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West Australian scientists hope that their world-first wheat protein map will help plant breeders build better crops.
Topics: wheat, research, esperance-6450, geraldton-6530, kalgoorlie-6430, albany-6330, bunbury-6230
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A man accused of child sex offences in the 1980s has his bid to fly to Thailand to get married rejected in the Bunbury Magistrates Court.
Topics: courts-and-trials, australind-6233, bunbury-6230
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A female doctor is punched in the face and carjacked outside the Bunbury Hospital and a homeowner is hit on the head with a shovel in his own backyard during a crime spree in Western Australia's South West, police say.
Topics: assault, crime, police, bunbury-6230
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A 10-year-old girl is dead after being thrown from the back of an unregistered, off-road motorcycle after the rider lost control on a bend on a road in Western Australia's South West.
Topics: accidents, bunbury-6230
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Strengthening offshore winds make conditions difficult for search teams looking for a missing fisherman off the coast of Bunbury, authorities say.
Topics: missing-person, emergency-incidents, binningup-6233, bunbury-6230
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| UpdatedA sea and air search is launched off Bunbury in Western Australia for a man who failed to arrive home from a two-day fishing trip, with authorities unable to make radio contact with him.
Topics: missing-person, police, emergency-incidents, bunbury-6230, wa
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| UpdatedDairy famers in Western Australia's south have begun to dump milk after being unable to secure supply contracts, after being told by processors there is a global oversupply.
Topics: dairy-production, rural, wa, bunbury-6230
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| UpdatedWA Labor is accused of electioneering over its policy to ban fracking in the south-west corner of Western Australia, with the proposal dismissed as a "joke" and a "short-sighted political ploy".
Topics: mining-environmental-issues, bunbury-6230, wa, perth-6000