David is a senior cross media news reporter in Perth with more than 20 years experience. He first started working with the ABC in the Illawarra region in the early 1990s. Since then David has reported on all of the major stories in WA while working with radio current affairs at AM, PM and The World Today. He has also reported for ABC TV News, Stateline and The 7:30 Report. David has won numerous reporting awards, including a United Nations Peace Prize in 2005.
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| UpdatedPrime Minister Malcolm Turnbull joins Islamic leaders in condemning an attack that saw a vehicle firebombed and anti-Islam graffiti sprayed outside a mosque and school in Perth.
Topics: police, race-relations, islam, religion-and-beliefs, thornlie-6108
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| UpdatedThe Health Australia Party may look new — but the political party in favour of "natural" medicine is actually a rebranded organisation which is angering doctors for its stance on vaccines and fluoride.
Topics: federal-election, political-parties, health, wa
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| UpdatedThe parents of murdered Perth woman Kerry Turner issue a renewed plea for help to catch her killer more than two decades after she was last seen alive in East Victoria Park.
Topics: murder-and-manslaughter, human-interest, police, perth-6000
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| UpdatedCandidates for the newly created Flux and Nick Xenophon Team political parties are hoping they have what it takes to secure a seat in the WA Senate.
Topics: political-parties, federal-elections, federal-election, wa
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West Australian Labor MPs take to Perth's trains to help support the party's federal candidates ahead of Saturday's election.
Topics: alp, federal-elections, elections, government-and-politics, perth-6000, wa
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Several new political parties representing a range of interests are vying for a WA Senate seat in next weekend's federal election.
Topics: federal-election, minor-parties, wa
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| UpdatedThe stomach of a shark that died after an attack near Mandurah was not fully examined, the WA Government confirms.
Topics: shark, government-and-politics, mandurah-6210, perth-6000
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| UpdatedResearchers in WA ask university and TAFE students to take part in an online survey on so-called study drugs to help them determine benefits and dangers.
Topics: drugs-and-substance-abuse, adult-education, wa
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A senior LandCorp officer engaged in serious misconduct by using confidential, inside information for personal gain, when he purchased land at the Australian Marine Complex in Perth's south, the CCC says.
Topics: corruption, perth-6000
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WA's Child and Adolescent Health Service rejects claims its mental health Acute Response Team is being cut back, despite a proposal that it become part of its community team.
Topics: adolescent-health, mental-health, perth-6000
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| UpdatedHundreds of stolen items including motorbikes, whitegoods and furniture are discovered in Northam after being taken from homes in Perth and the Wheatbelt.
Topics: crime, courts-and-trials, police, northam-6401, midland-6056, quinns-rocks-6030, sorrento-6020, upper-swan-6069, gidgegannup-6083, ellenbrook-6069, herne-hill-6056, mundaring-6073, forrestfield-6058
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Rental affordability has improved across Perth and the city is doing better than other Australian state capitals, particularly Sydney and Brisbane, a new report suggests.
Topics: housing-industry, housing, house-and-home, perth-6000
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A volunteer firefighter is taking his case to Western Australia's Fair Work Commission (FWC) after his employer Alcoa cut his pay for attending a blaze.
Topics: fires, courts-and-trials, perth-6000, lake-clifton-6215, pinjarra-6208
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| UpdatedThe mother of shark attack victim Kyle Burden expresses disgust at The West Australian newspaper's front page showing children in the ocean with a superimposed fin in the background.
Topics: shark, perth-6000
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The draw for West Australian candidates for the Senate is held, with the top spot going to Fred Nile's Christian Democratic Party.
Topics: federal-elections, political-parties, government-and-politics, elections, perth-6000, wa
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| UpdatedPerth's northern beaches will reopen today after being closed following the shark attack that killed university lecturer Doreen Collyer.
Topics: shark, mindarie-6030
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WA Police charge a man with grievous bodily harm over a Scarborough hit-and-run that left the victim with serious head injuries.
Topics: crime, courts-and-trials, road, scarborough-6019
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| UpdatedTributes are paid to a West Australian man who has died in hospital after being attacked by a shark in Mandurah, south of Perth.
Topics: shark, death, perth-6000, wa
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Fair Work Building and Construction drops a case against a CFMEU organiser in Western Australia after admitting they had the wrong man.
Topics: unions, joondalup-6027
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The President of the WA Rural Action Movement is facing legal action after refusing to let the Commonwealth Bank take possession of his property.
Topics: banking, rural, salmon-gums-6445
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A new Australian study identifies previously unknown links between the immune system and serious mental illness, leading to new remedies for conditions thought untreatable.
Topics: mental-health, perth-6000
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| UpdatedThe Liberal Member for Canning, MP Andrew Hastie, refuses to remove photos of himself in uniform from election campaign material, defying a request from the Australian Defence Force.
Topics: federal-elections, defence-forces, federal-government, federal-parliament, kelmscott-6111, armadale-6112, gosnells-6110
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| UpdatedA Perth man sacked from his job after making social media posts said to be supportive of Islamic State takes his case to the Fair Work Commission.
Topics: work, terrorism, defence-and-national-security, perth-6000
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| UpdatedThe federal Opposition transport and infrastructure spokesman accuses the Coalition Government of failing to start any major infrastructure projects in WA since 2013.
Topics: government-and-politics, federal-election, federal-elections, federal-government, perth-6000
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Western Australia's peak body for parents of public students says expanding two high schools in the western suburbs won't be enough to deal with population growth, after it was revealed plans for a new facility have been pushed back by almost a decade.
Topics: education, secondary-schools, churchlands-6018, city-beach-6015, shenton-park-6008