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• WA election: It's the economy, stupid — or is it One Nation? Analysis

  By Andrew O'Connor

  Posted February 18, 2017 16:12:54

  The Liberals and Labor spent much of the week crunching and debating the financial figures — but it was that One Nation preference deal and Pauline Hanson's candidates who dominated much of the debate.

  Topics: elections, states-and-territories, alp, liberals, one-nation, perth-6000, wa

• Lions beat Collingwood; GWS and Freo play out AFL Women's first-ever draw

  Posted February 18, 2017 15:11:14 | Updated February 19, 2017 12:20:55

  The Brisbane Lions make it three from three with a win over Collingwood while GWS and Fremantle play out the first ever AFL Women's draw.

  Topics: australian-football-league, sport, brisbane-4000, blacktown-2148, nsw, qld, collingwood-3066, vic, fremantle-6160, perth-6000, wa, australia

• Service shortfall means cancer survivors missing out on essential rehabilitation (photos)

  By Kathryn Diss

  Posted February 18, 2017 13:48:04 | Updated February 18, 2017 14:48:26

  There are fears cancer survivors are missing out on much-needed rehabilitation because demand for services is outstripping supply.

  Topics: cancer, rehabilitation, perth-6000

• 'Cannon fodder': Man's 10-day boat voyage to WA with record ice haul

  By Joanna Menagh

  Posted February 17, 2017 20:53:36 | Updated February 17, 2017 23:14:45

  A Hong Kong man caught with 315 kilograms of methylamphetamine in Perth was recruited in a billiards hall and sent "over the trenches first" by a "sophisticated" drug ring most likely run out of China, a court hears.

  Topics: drug-offences, drugs-and-substance-abuse, courts-and-trials, police, perth-6000, wa, canning-vale-6155, south-hedland-6722

• Who's next? WA election casualties mount (photos)

  By Laura Gartry

  Posted February 17, 2017 18:18:30 | Updated February 17, 2017 19:26:00

  Political casualties during the WA election campaign mount as social media posts and inappropriate behaviour continue to land candidates in hot water.

  Topics: state-parliament, elections, social-media, perth-6000

• Fundraising for a cause: What are the rules?

  ABC Radio Perth

  By Emma Wynne

  Posted February 17, 2017 17:03:56

  Fundraising for a good cause can be fraught with financial and legal pitfalls, so make sure you know the rules.

  Topics: charities-and-community-organisations, laws, human-interest, perth-6000

• Rolling out the big guns: Former leaders hit the WA campaign trail (photos)

  By Nicolas Perpitch

  Posted February 17, 2017 16:54:16 | Updated February 17, 2017 18:41:42

  Both major parties bring out retired, successful leaders to boost their image as they campaign ahead of the March state election.

  Topics: elections, perth-6000

• BP Australia says pricing carbon one of the optimum methods of reducing emissions

  ABC Rural

  By Babs McHugh

  Posted February 17, 2017 15:56:13

  Carbon pricing, new LNG supplies from US shale gas, and coal demand are all on BP's radar as the world moves towards decarbonisation.

  Topics: mining-rural, mining-industry, business-economics-and-finance, oil-and-gas, perth-6000

• BP Australia's Claire Fitzpatrick talks about carbon pricing and the future for LNG Audio

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  ABC News

  6min 26sec

  Posted February 17, 2017 15:56:13 | Updated February 17, 2017 16:21:54

  Babs McHugh speaks with Claire Fitzpatrick, BP Australia, MD for exploration and production, on carbon pricing and LNG future

  Topics: mining-rural, mining-industry, perth-6000

• Man jailed for 12 years over 'brutal' sex attacks in Perth, Albany

  By Eliza Laschon

  Posted February 17, 2017 14:46:47 | Updated February 17, 2017 18:22:34

  A man is sentenced to 12 years in prison for a series of attacks described in court as "terrifying" and "brutal" on young women in Western Australia in the early 1990s.

  Topics: sexual-offences, child-abuse, police, gosnells-6110, albany-6330, perth-6000

• Perth doctor banned over 'sexualised behaviour' towards patient

  Posted February 17, 2017 12:09:46 | Updated February 17, 2017 12:15:46

  Perth doctor Gregory Duck is banned from practising medicine for at least another two years for misconduct with a patient, including over-prescription of drugs and buying her lingerie, which he photographed her in.

  Topics: medical-ethics, perth-6000

• Collingwood lifts bar for Super Netball

  By Neil Cross

  Posted February 17, 2017 08:21:34 | Updated February 17, 2017 11:37:01

  Australia's new Super Netball competition has not even started and already there are concerns it will be dominated by three new franchises backed by football clubs.

  Topics: netball, sport, collingwood-3066, vic, adelaide-5000, sa, sydney-2000, nsw, perth-6000, wa

• Indigenous council calls for Adam Bandt not to use Native Title Act in Adani debate

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  By Eliza Borrello

  Posted February 16, 2017 18:35:11 | Updated February 17, 2017 10:24:12

  Greens MP Adam Bandt is criticised for saying changes to the Native Title Act were rushed through Parliament to benefit the Adani coal mine in Queensland.

  Topics: government-and-politics, federal-government, indigenous-policy, community-and-society, indigenous-aboriginal-and-torres-strait-islander, perth-6000

• Liberals eye more private sector prisons, hospitals to cut WA debt

  By Andrew O'Connor

  Posted February 15, 2017 21:50:30 | Updated February 15, 2017 22:06:46

  A 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

• Super Netball to build on women's sport momentum

  By Brittany Carter

  Posted February 15, 2017 18:56:41 | Updated February 16, 2017 12:17:27

  Super Netball is a new product of a long-standing popular code about to join the growing landscape of women's sport.

  Topics: netball, sport, sydney-2000, sippy-downs-4556, brisbane-4000, melbourne-3000, perth-6000, adelaide-5000

• PIAF show Before the Siren a 'feminist footy frenzy in Freo'

  By Sarah Collard

  Posted February 15, 2017 18:48:10 | Updated February 16, 2017 12:30:15

  Think 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

• Merging 4G, satellite could bring reliable communication to bush

  ABC Rural

  By Babs McHugh

  Posted February 15, 2017 18:48:10 | Updated February 17, 2017 12:12:17

  The vexed issue of internet speed, mobile phones and loss of landlines may be addressed with new trial.

  Topics: mining-rural, rural, telecommunications, mining-industry, perth-6000

• There's value in passing on your election junk mail

  ABC Radio Perth

  By Emma Wynne

  Posted February 15, 2017 16:52:13

  The State Library of Western Australia needs your help adding to its archives by donating the political advertising that comes through your letterbox during the election campaign.

  Topics: history, library-museum-and-gallery, elections, human-interest, perth-6000

• Man who sexually abused 6yo girl in public toilets jailed

  By Joanna Menagh

  Posted February 15, 2017 14:16:55 | Updated February 15, 2017 19:32:27

  A 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

• Clean coal, an oxymoron or a path to lower emissions?

  ABC Rural

  By Babs McHugh

  Posted February 15, 2017 10:52:51 | Updated February 15, 2017 12:53:29

  The terms clean coal and high-efficiency, low-emissions power stations are high on political agenda. But can they help reduce emissions?

  Topics: mining-rural, mining-industry, electricity-energy-and-utilities, energy, alternative-energy, coal, perth-6000

• Voges ends Test career with the best average since Bradman

  Posted February 15, 2017 07:07:35 | Updated February 15, 2017 07:49:44

  Adam 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

• Potato pest causes concerns for south-west producers

  ABC Rural

  By Michelle Stanley

  Posted February 14, 2017 19:27:47

  The exotic tomato potato psyllid is discovered in the Perth region, and has the potential to devastate the Western Australian potato industry.

  Topics: pest-management, pests, vegetables, quarantine, manjimup-6258, perth-6000

• Cars inspire artists' alternative housing ideas

  ABC Radio Perth

  By Emma Wynne

  Posted February 14, 2017 17:06:00

  Two Perth arts projects are exploring alternative ideas of housing; one a tent that is a faithful replica of a car, the other a foil-wrapped van.

  Topics: contemporary-art, installation, homelessness, housing, human-interest, perth-6000, applecross-6153

• How the parties are using your Facebook profile to target you

  By Laura Gartry

  Posted February 14, 2017 14:35:44 | Updated February 16, 2017 13:10:39

  WA political parties are using Facebook data to target voters like never before using a game-changing strategy straight out of the Donald Trump election handbook.

  Topics: government-and-politics, social-media, internet-culture, perth-6000

• Rose exports from Kenya to Australia blossoming

  ABC Rural

  By Matt Brann

  Posted February 14, 2017 13:16:47 | Updated February 14, 2017 14:02:52

  If you bought a rose for your loved one this Valentine's Day, there is a strong chance it has come from Kenya.

  Topics: rural, trade, flowers, community-and-society, perth-6000, melbourne-3000, sydney-2000, kenya

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