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| UpdatedA re-elected Barnett Government would take a hard line on reforming the public sector and launch a push towards privatising more services to help restore the budget to surplus, the WA Treasurer reveals.
Topics: elections, states-and-territories, state-parliament, perth-6000, wa
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Five micro parties strike a preference deal that could deliver as many as five Upper House seats in the WA election, with the pact orchestrated by "preference whisperer" Glenn Druery.
Topics: government-and-politics, elections, wa
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| UpdatedThe former Labor leader and ambassador to the US says Pauline Hanson's One Nation is a threat to Australia's national security and prosperity.
Topics: federal-government, government-and-politics, federal---state-issues, states-and-territories, one-nation, world-politics, australia, wa
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| UpdatedMicro-parties and preferences dominate discussion on the WA election campaign, with Pauline Hanson wading into the preference deal debate.
Topics: elections, political-parties, wa
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| UpdatedThink sport and art don't mix? The artists behind a PIAF show described as "a large-scale public artwork that culminates in a huge party" in Fremantle want you to think again as they celebrate women in football.
Topics: sport, australian-football-league, arts-and-entertainment, fremantle-6160, perth-6000, wa
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| UpdatedMike Fitzpatrick reflects on the ups and downs of his 10-year reign as AFL chairman, including Essendon's doping saga, the AFL's expansion plans, gambling and the new women's league.
Topics: australian-football-league, sport, melbourne-3000, vic, australia, nsw, sa, wa, tas, qld, nt
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| UpdatedWestern Australia's South West braces for flooding as rivers continue to swell following record rainfall in the state, with storms claiming two lives on the weekend.
Topics: floods, disasters-and-accidents, weather, bunbury-6230, wa
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| UpdatedPauline Hanson strikes back at One Nation's WA candidates who are complaining about a controversial preference deal with the Liberal Party, telling them if they're not happy with it, "don't stand under my name".
Topics: government-and-politics, elections, state-parliament, one-nation, states-and-territories, wa
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| UpdatedThe Barnett Government pledges to lift the payroll tax threshold for business to $900,000, claiming the change will boost jobs and save small businesses millions.
Topics: elections, political-parties, small-business, tax, wa
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| UpdatedA 49-year-old man is sentenced to four-and-a-half years' jail for a sex attack on a young girl in public toilets at a suburban Perth oval 11 years ago.
Topics: child-abuse, law-crime-and-justice, perth-6000, wa
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| UpdatedOne 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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| UpdatedThe embattled chief executive of Seven West Media, Tim Worner, remains defiant about the fallout from his affair with employee Amber Harrison, while delivering a 91 per cent fall in half-year profit.
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.