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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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| UpdatedLiberal MP Murray Cowper accuses his own party leader of playing political football with regional fire safety by announcing plans to locate a Rural Fire Service (RFS) in WA's most marginal seat.
Topics: emergency-planning, government-and-politics, elections, collie-6225, wa
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| UpdatedElection promises by the major parties and another bleak budget update for WA Treasurer Mike Nahan feature on the campaign trail, with One Nation also gaining a surprise candidate.
Topics: elections, political-parties, ellenbrook-6069, perth-6000, collie-6225, wa
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| UpdatedThe make-up of Western Australia's planned Rural Fire Service is yet to be announced, despite the State Government announcing it wants it to be headquartered in the South West town of Collie.
Topics: emergency-planning, fires, collie-6225
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| UpdatedWest Australian Premier Colin Barnett wants to set up the headquarters for a rural fire service in the state's most marginal seat, Collie-Preston, following the recommendation for one in an inquiry into the devastating Yarloop bushfire.
Topics: bushfire, fires, emergency-planning, elections, collie-6225, wa
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Griffin Coal has fronted up to allegations that scrapping a pay deal for its maintenance staff has adversely affected the West Australian town of Collie.
Topics: mining-rural, community-and-society, work, unions, government-and-politics, collie-6225, wa
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The Barnett Government hopes a private sector-led project diverting flows from the Collie River and using desalination will help boost agricultural production in WA's south west.
Topics: irrigation, water-management, collie-6225
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| UpdatedA West Australian man is charged with sexual assault after allegedly tying his stepdaughter to a car seat and attacking her during a driving lesson.
Topics: sexual-offences, law-crime-and-justice, collie-6225, wa, dardanup-6236
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| UpdatedA Western Australian Victoria Cross winner is given recognition in a book on his life.
Topics: community-and-society, history, world-war-1, arts-and-entertainment, books-literature, collie-6225
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| UpdatedThe Federal Court has prevented Western Australia's Griffin Coal from using secretly taped video footage to sack a union delegate.
Topics: law-crime-and-justice, unions, collie-6225
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Charges against a West Australian man accused of raping a child at a Christian mission in Western Australia's South West more than 40 years ago are dropped.
Topics: law-crime-and-justice, sexual-offences, child-abuse, indigenous-aboriginal-and-torres-strait-islander, stolen-generations, collie-6225, wa
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| UpdatedProtesters blockading the Griffin Coal Mine in Collie where workers are facing pay cuts of up to 43 per cent, are moved on by police.
Topics: work, mining-industry, collie-6225
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| UpdatedSeveral Western Australian companies are trying to cut workers' wages after the Fair Work Commission agreed to scrap workers' contracts at the financially-troubled Griffin Coal mine, a major union says.
Topics: unions, work, mining-industry, industrial-relations, wa, collie-6225
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During a hostile exchange in State Parliament, Treasurer Mike Nahan rules out intervening in wage negotiations between Premier Coal and Collie miners who could be facing pay cuts of up to $50,000 a year.
Topics: states-and-territories, state-parliament, collie-6225, wa
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| UpdatedWorkers embroiled in a wage dispute at a coal mine in Western Australia's South West are handed a reprieve after fighting moves to slash their pay by up to 43 per cent.
Topics: coal, mining-industry, mining-rural, industrial-relations, collie-6225, wa
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| UpdatedA Perth millionaire planning a solar development in Western Australia's Wheatbelt comes under fire from another regional community for failing to go ahead with a separate project.
Topics: government-and-politics, urban-development-and-planning, solar-energy, collie-6225, perth-6000
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Unions say a Fair Work Commission involving Collie's Griffin Coal Mine workers will open the floodgates for other companies to slash wages.
Topics: work, collie-6225
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| UpdatedPerth shivers through its coldest morning in four years, with the temperature plummeting to 0.6C in the early hours, as much of southern Western Australia braves freezing conditions.
Topics: weather, human-interest, perth-6000, wa, collie-6225, bridgetown-6255
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| UpdatedThe full bench of the Fair Work Commission orders a stay on a big pay cut planned for some Griffin Coal mine workers in Collie, hours after protestors rallied against the move.
Topics: industrial-relations, unions, collie-6225, perth-6000
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| UpdatedMaintenance workers at the Griffin Coal mine in WA's South-West walk off the job for 24 hours over plans to scrap an agreement which will cut their pay by about $50,000 a year.
Topics: mining-industry, collie-6225
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| UpdatedThe small South West town of Collie is rallying to support its coal mine workers facing a 43 per cent pay cut, vowing to stage a protest this week.
Topics: industrial-relations, unions, mining-industry, coal, collie-6225, wa
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| UpdatedStop-work action is being planned at the Griffin Coal mine in Western Australia's South West in protest against a planned 43 per cent pay cut for maintenance workers.
Topics: industrial-relations, unions, mining-industry, coal, collie-6225, wa
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The WA Nationals say the latest preference deal between the Liberals and the ALP is a deliberate attempt to marginalise regional seats.
Topics: federal-elections, nationals, liberals, kalgoorlie-6430, esperance-6450, albany-6330, collie-6225
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Unions vow to fight a ruling by the Fair Work Commission, which will see workers at a coal mine in WA's south-west have their pay cut by 43 per cent as of next month.
Topics: coal, mining-industry, collie-6225
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A man charged with raping a girl at a Christian mission near Collie in the state's South West more than 40 years ago pleads not guilty to six child abuse charges.
Topics: sexual-offences, courts-and-trials, roelands-6226, collie-6225, bunbury-6230