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Two weeks from the state election, the Barnett Government is yet to submit its full business case or receive any of the promised Commonwealth funding for its priority road project, the $1.9-billion Perth Freight Link.
Topics: elections, road-transport, urban-development-and-planning, fremantle-6160, melville-6156, beeliar-6164
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Melville Cricket Club in Perth is raising awareness about a rare type of cancer after two of its own players were diagnosed with the disease in the same year.
Topics: cancer, cricket, melville-6156, perth-6000
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A 15-year-old boy is charged by police over a deliberately-lit fire at a school in Perth's southern suburbs, which left a damage bill estimated at $200,000.
Topics: arson, police, melville-6156, perth-6000
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| UpdatedDetectives seek a group of teenagers believed to have lit a fire which caused significant damage to a primary school in Perth's southern suburbs.
Topics: fires, primary-schools, schools, arson, melville-6156
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| UpdatedFormer Perth Wildcats basketballer Kendal 'Tiny' Pinder allegedly lured a young woman to his flat to show her pictures of his Harlem Globetrotting days and raped her on his bed, a court hears.
Topics: sexual-offences, courts-and-trials, basketball, perth-6000, melville-6156, fremantle-6160
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| UpdatedDiscarded Liberal MP Dennis Jensen announces he will contest the West Australian seat of Tangney as an independent candidate at the federal election.
Topics: federal-elections, federal-government, federal-parliament, perth-6000, melville-6156, applecross-6153, willetton-6155, leeming-6149, rossmoyne-6148
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| UpdatedThe people captured in the images were "going about their daily business" in the area around Valeria Fermendjin's house at the time she was killed and may have seen something relevant, police say.
Topics: murder-and-manslaughter, melville-6156
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Notorious West Australian serial killer Catherine Birnie will remain behind bars after her fourth bid for parole is rejected.
Topics: murder-and-manslaughter, prisons-and-punishment, melville-6156, perth-6000
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Topics: crime, police, melville-6156
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| UpdatedA 70-year-old woman whose body was found in her Perth home last week was killed during a burglary, West Australian police say.
Topics: murder-and-manslaughter, burglary, melville-6156
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Forensic experts are called in to investigate the death of a woman who was found at a property in Perth.
Topics: murder-and-manslaughter, law-crime-and-justice, melville-6156
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| UpdatedVeterans of a campaign to prevent the extension of Farrington Road in the 1980s draw parallels between that dispute and the row over the $1.6 billion Perth Freight Link project, urging the State Government to think again.
Topics: people, road-transport, states-and-territories, perth-6000, north-lake-6163, fremantle-6160, melville-6156, murdoch-university-6150, beeliar-6164
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| UpdatedA Perth father describes how he tried to stop his car being stolen with his 10-month-old baby boy asleep in the back in the southern Perth suburb of Willagee.
Topics: police, crime, children---toddlers, melville-6156, perth-6000
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Mayors of three councils in Perth southern suburbs tell a Senate inquiry hearing the proposed Perth Freight Link should be abandoned in favour of developing a new harbour.
Topics: road-transport, state-parliament, perth-6000, melville-6156, fremantle-6160
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A Perth mother may be charged after leaving her child unattended in a shopping centre car park on Saturday.
Topics: police, family-and-children, melville-6156
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| UpdatedA West Australian woman has been banned from owning an animal for 10 years and fined $4,000 for neglecting her dog and not treating its skin and eye conditions.
Topics: animals, animal-welfare, melville-6156
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| UpdatedAbout 200 people have gathered on the steps of State Parliament in protest against the State Government's plan to carve-up the City of Cockburn.
Topics: local-government, melville-6156
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| UpdatedA church has been destroyed after thieves broke into it and deliberately set it on fire in the Perth suburb of Willagee.
Topics: fires, melville-6156
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Police have arrested and charged a woman in relation to an armed robbery at a fast food store in Willagee last week.
Topics: crime, law-crime-and-justice, police, melville-6156, wa
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| UpdatedEmergency crews will spend today repairing homes and restoring power after Perth's southern suburbs were hit by wild storms.
Topics: storm-disaster, disasters-and-accidents, weather, storm-event, perth-6000, wa, melville-6156, rockingham-6168
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| UpdatedA new campaign of hard-hitting realistic short films aim to help teach life skills to teenage boys.
Topics: schools, community-and-society, men, sexuality, youth, education, teachers, health, diseases-and-disorders, depression, sexual-health, melville-6156, australia, wa
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The RSPCA is investigating the death of a kangaroo.
Topics: animals, endangered-and-protected-species, law-crime-and-justice, melville-6156
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The City of Melville in Perth says at least 20 native trees in the Piney Lakes Reserve will die or take hundreds of years to recover after vandals attacked them with a blunt axe.
Topics: rain-forests-and-forest, crime, melville-6156