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| UpdatedA Perth doctor is found guilty of professional misconduct for prescribing large amounts of steroids and other drugs for "no proper therapeutic reason" — with some of his patients having suffered adverse effects.
Topics: courts-and-trials, doctors-and-medical-professionals, perth-6000, wa
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| UpdatedKim Chance, who was an MP for 17 years and built Australia's biggest commercial camel dairy that transformed outback ferals into calm milking machines, dies at the age of 70.
Topics: death, community-and-society, alp, perth-6000, wa
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| UpdatedRenewables company Carnegie Clean Energy confirms it is interested in developing WA Labor's proposal for a wave power farm in Albany, in Western Australia's Great Southern.
Topics: tidal-energy, energy, elections, states-and-territories, albany-6330, perth-6000, wa
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| UpdatedPeople with an incapacity or disability that makes it difficult for them to vote at ballot boxes will be able to have their say at the March state election via the internet, a first for Western Australia.
Topics: computers-and-technology, internet-technology, elections, government-and-politics, wa, perth-6000
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| UpdatedFrontline services will be impacted as jobs are slashed from the federal Health Department, the public sector union warns.
Topics: public-sector, government-and-politics, health-policy, health-administration, australia, act, nsw, vic, tas, sa, qld, nt, wa
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Feral pig populations in Western Australia's south-west are now in the "tens of thousands" with authorities fighting against the animals' ability to reproduce at a rapid rate.
Topics: environment, pests, pest-management, rural, boyup-brook-6244, wa
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With just over two weeks to polling day, WA's political leaders clash in a televised debate over debt, experience and political promises, with each trying to "aggressively" undermine the other's credibility.
Topics: government-and-politics, elections, wa
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Perth barrister Lloyd Rayney is dealt a blow on the eve of the hearing of his multi-million-dollar defamation case against the state of WA, with WA's highest court ruling a hearing examining whether he should be allowed to keep practising law can go ahead.
Topics: government-and-politics, political-parties, wa
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| UpdatedA man who allegedly pretended to be a police officer to pull over his stepdaughter before blindfolding her, driving her to a deserted bush area and stripping her naked and photographing her is refused bail.
Topics: sexual-offences, law-crime-and-justice, collie-6225, wa
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Money was at the heart of a lot of the debate on the WA election hustings today, with barbs traded over hospital funding, the sale of Western Power and the spending of taxpayers' money in general.
Topics: elections, political-parties, livestock, islam, wa
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The emergency services workers who saved the life of a paramedic critically injured and trapped in an ambulance that was crushed in a head-on crash, are among the winners of St John Community Heroes Awards.
Topics: awards-and-prizes, community-and-society, wa
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| UpdatedThe welfare of doctors at Perth's Princess Margaret Hospital is being ignored with some unable to take leave for three years, the Australian Medical Association says, but health officials reject the claims.
Topics: healthcare-facilities, doctors-and-medical-professionals, states-and-territories, perth-6000, wa
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| UpdatedA group of Islamic leaders in Perth urges its followers not to vote for the Liberal Party in the state election following the party's preference deal with Pauline Hanson's One Nation.
Topics: elections, political-parties, greens, islam, wa
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| UpdatedPerth-based mining company Fortescue Metals Group posts a big jump in profit to US$1.2 billion for the six months to the end of December, on the back of a surge in iron ore prices.
Topics: iron-ore, mining-industry, company-news, business-economics-and-finance, wa, perth-6000
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The family of a Victorian pearl diver who died off WA's north-west coast welcomes the scheduling of an inquest five years on, saying lives continue to be put at risk by alleged dubious safety practices.
Topics: courts-and-trials, accidents---other, broome-6725, wa, vic, perth-6000
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| UpdatedWestern Australia's struggling economy and high level of debt is likely to dominate tonight's leaders' debate, with Opposition Leader Mark McGowan considered the frontrunner.
Topics: elections, political-parties, wa
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Peter Bradford and his wife Cathy are hanging up the boots after being in the pig industry for 40 years.
Topics: pig-production, livestock, rural, boyup-brook-6244, wa
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| UpdatedOne of two men who bashed a kangaroo to death with a metal pole is jailed for almost a year, which is almost unheard of in Western Australia.
Topics: law-crime-and-justice, animal-welfare, bunbury-6230, wa
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The sitting Liberal member for the seat of Perth hits out at her party's preference deal with Pauline Hanson's One Nation, paying for Facebook advertising to highlight her lack of support for the party and its policies.
Topics: elections, government-and-politics, one-nation, liberals, wa
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| UpdatedWeek three of the election campaign is in full swing! While the major parties have grabbed much of the spotlight of late, with the PM and Opposition leader in town, today it was Greens' leader Richard Di Natale's turn to try to win your vote.
Topics: government-and-politics, elections, wa
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| UpdatedWA Labor says it will not impose any new taxes or tax increases on West Australians if it wins government in next month's state election, while the Premier holds on to hope for action on GST distribution.
Topics: elections, government-and-politics, tax, wa
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| UpdatedA 10-year-old Perth boy charged with sexually penetrating and threatening to kill an eight-year-old boy will not be returning to his northern suburbs school after parents expressed their concern.
Topics: primary-schools, sexual-offences, children, perth-6000, wa
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| UpdatedWhile millions of Australians choose to invest in a new smartphone every year, there's also a booming second-hand market. But is it too risky handing money over for a used handset?
Topics: mobile-phones, consumer-protection, wa
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A former school traffic warden will plead not guilty to more than 300 child sex offences, the Perth Magistrates Court is told.
Topics: child-abuse, law-crime-and-justice, sexual-offences, perth-6000, wa
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| UpdatedPreventing sexual violence is everyone's responsibility, but we need to be careful about how we do it, writes Bianca Fileborn from UNSW.
Topics: sexual-offences, law-crime-and-justice, community-and-society, australia, vic, tas, qld, sa, nt, nsw, wa