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One Nation candidates in the WA election are threatening to disobey their own party on the controversial preference deal struck with the Liberal Party.
Topics: government-and-politics, elections, state-parliament, one-nation, states-and-territories, bullying, wa
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| UpdatedTim Worner, chief executive of broadcasting and publishing group Seven West Media, uses a presentation on the company's profit result to acknowledge his affair with former employee Amber Harrison.
Topics: business-economics-and-finance, wa
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From swimming cattle across the creek to using jet skis to tow dinghies loaded with sheep, farmers in WA are doing all they can to save their livestock.
Topics: disasters-and-accidents, livestock-welfare, livestock, rural, community-and-society, newdegate-6355, wa
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Researchers discover the three-dimensional structure of a protein responsible for multi-drug resistant bacteria, in a major step forward in the battle against antibiotic resistance.
Topics: health, infectious-diseases-other, diseases-and-disorders, wa, australia
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| UpdatedThe March state election will be the first fought under fresh electoral boundaries drawn in a 2015 redistribution — so what does it mean for the parties, their candidates and for you?
Topics: elections, government-and-politics, wa, ocean-reef-6027, albany-6330, esperance-6450, bicton-6157, thornlie-6108, baldivis-6171
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| UpdatedAdam Voges officially calls time on his Test career, leaving the game with the second best average in the game's history, behind only Don Bradman.
Topics: cricket, sport, perth-6000, wa, australia
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| UpdatedBushfires, floods and heatwaves are the new standard in Australia, leading climate scientists say, but they are growing fatigued explaining it to people who cannot accept it or have a vested interest that means they do not want to.
Topics: climate-change, environmental-impact, environmental-policy, weather, australia, nsw, wa, qld, tas
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| UpdatedThere has been no love lost between the political parties this Valentine's Day, with the campaign trail marked by digitally-altered photographs, public declarations of political "love" and thorny tax questions.
Topics: elections, political-parties, wa
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| UpdatedThe body of a man who went missing during Western Australia's weekend floods is found, as an early estimate puts the damage bill at more than $100 million.
Topics: floods, disasters-and-accidents, weather, wa, esperance-6450, jerdacuttup-6346, ravensthorpe-6346, albany-6330
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| UpdatedThe brother of missing WA teenager Hayley Dodd and the son of One Nation candidate Margaret Dodd sent more than 100 threatening and abusive text messages to the mother of his three children, a court hears.
Topics: law-crime-and-justice, crime, drug-offences, wa
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WA Premier Colin Barnett seeks to defend the Liberals' preference deal with One Nation by claiming Pauline Hanson's party holds less extreme views with "racial components" now than it did two decades ago.
Topics: government-and-politics, political-parties, elections, wa
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| UpdatedNat Fyfe is appointed captain of the Fremantle Dockers as they seek to rebound from a dismal campaign last year — and maintains he wants to remain at the club after his contract runs out at the end of this season.
Topics: australian-football-league, sport, fremantle-6160, wa
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Perth-based conglomerate Wesfarmers announces its industrials chief Rob Scott is to take over from long-standing managing director Richard Goyder when he stands down in November.
Topics: business-economics-and-finance, retail, wa
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| UpdatedEnergy experts say the West Australian Labor party must undertake a detailed feasibility study before backing a wave power farm in the Great Southern.
Topics: alternative-energy, tidal-energy, environment, electricity-energy-and-utilities, albany-6330, wa
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| UpdatedThe price of iron ore continues to defy market expectations, climbing beyond $US90 a tonne for the first time in more than two years, prompting one mining analyst to give up trying to forecast the price of the commodity.
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A shaky-looking preference deal, criticism of Labor's debt strategy and a knife threat to the Opposition Leader's son were key talking points on the campaign trail on Monday.
Topics: elections, political-parties, wa
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| UpdatedTwo people escape serious injury when their helicopter crashes in a field at Jandakot Airport in Perth's southern suburbs, with police describing it as a "hard landing".
Topics: air-and-space, accidents, jandakot-6164, perth-6000, wa
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| UpdatedAttorney-General George Brandis accuses Labor senator Penny Wong of having an "unhealthy obsession" with Pauline Hanson after she launched a fiery attack on One Nation.
Topics: one-nation, government-and-politics, political-parties, pauline-hanson, wa, australia
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| UpdatedSerious doubts are raised about a key WA Labor strategy designed to drive down state debt, with the state's Chamber of Commerce and Industry labelling it inherently flawed and a cop-out.
Topics: government-and-politics, elections, states-and-territories, budget, perth-6000, wa
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| UpdatedTwo men are charged by police after footage emerges of a man violently kicking a quokka, one of Western Australia's most loved and iconic marsupials, on Rottnest Island.
Topics: animal-welfare, law-crime-and-justice, rottnest-island-6161, wa
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| UpdatedFlooded farmers in the Swan Valley — along with people from Karratha in the state's north to Esperance in the south — may be eligible for federal assistance grants, as much of the state is declared a natural disaster zone.
Topics: storm-disaster, storm-event, weather, west-swan-6055, upper-swan-6069, wa
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The man accused of murdering missing WA teenager Hayley Dodd 18 years ago wants to be tried by judge alone, instead of a jury.
Topics: courts-and-trials, law-crime-and-justice, murder-and-manslaughter, crime, wa, perth-6000, badgingarra-6521
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| UpdatedSeveral One Nation candidates including Margaret Dodd say they will refuse to preference the Liberal Party, contrary to a statewide deal announced on the weekend.
Topics: elections, political-parties, minor-parties, wa
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Anthony Mundine calls for a third fight with Danny Green, this time in Perth so Green's "family can come and watch him get fried".
Topics: boxing, sport, perth-6000, wa, australia
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Topics: rural, grain, agricultural-crops, coorow-6515, wa, australia