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Hundreds of East and North Fremantle residents stage what they say is their last stand against the Liberal Government's controversial Perth Freight Link project, before next Saturday's West Australian election.
Topics: road-transport, government-and-politics, fremantle-6160, east-fremantle-6158, north-fremantle-6159
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| UpdatedComplaints from within Princess Margaret Hospital have highlighted rising concern over patient safety, with the Australian Medical Association calling for new management.
Topics: healthcare-facilities, government-and-politics, perth-6000, fremantle-6160
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The West Australian coroner says he is unable to determine if the care of post-surgical patient Christine Stroner at Fremantle Hospital may have contributed to her death after she was discharged.
Topics: healthcare-facilities, courts-and-trials, death, fremantle-6160, wa, perth-6000
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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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| UpdatedA royal commission should be held to examine the approvals processes for the Roe 8 stage of the Perth Freight Link, the Conservation Council of WA says, as critics of the project hold a rally in Fremantle.
Topics: states-and-territories, elections, environmental-policy, environmental-impact, fremantle-6160, beeliar-6164, perth-6000, wa
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| UpdatedAdelaide keep its unbeaten streak in the AFLW alive with a come from behind 23-point win over the Fremantle Dockers.
Topics: australian-football-league, sport, fremantle-6160, wa, adelaide-5000, sa, australia
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Three Pakistani seafarers who jumped over the side of their livestock ship into Fremantle harbour in an apparent asylum bid will be deported, the Immigration Department says.
Topics: immigration, sea-transport, fremantle-6160
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WA Premier Colin Barnett promises a new dedicated live export berth in Kwinana if re-elected, but proposes no timeline for when it will happen.
Topics: livestock-welfare, livestock, rural, trade, business-economics-and-finance, elections, kwinana-town-centre-6167, fremantle-6160
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| UpdatedThe 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
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| UpdatedThink 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
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| UpdatedNat Fyfe is appointed captain of the Fremantle Dockers as they seek to rebound from a dismal campaign last year — and maintains he wants to remain at the club after his contract runs out at the end of this season.
Topics: australian-football-league, sport, fremantle-6160, wa
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| UpdatedTwo-time Olympic athlete Kim Mickle will miss the remainder of the inaugural AFLW season with Fremantle Dockers because of a knee injury.
Topics: australian-football-league, sport, athletics, olympics-summer, fremantle-6160
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Former Fremantle Docker Shane Yarran pleads not guilty to a charge of assaulting a family member.
Topics: australian-football-league, sport, assault, law-crime-and-justice, fremantle-6160, perth-6000, wa
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A critical flaw in traffic modelling for Perth's Roe 8 highway extension underestimates the number of trucks that will use the road by up to 16,500 and invalidates the noise management plan and road design, new analysis suggests.
Topics: states-and-territories, environmental-health, health, elections, perth-6000, wa, fremantle-6160
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| UpdatedFremantle mayor Brad Pettitt claims a victory of sorts in his bid to move Australia Day festivities to another date, saying the move helped improve people's understanding over why January 26 was not a day of celebration for Aboriginal Australians.
Topics: australia-day, event, indigenous-aboriginal-and-torres-strait-islander, community-and-society, wa, fremantle-6160
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| UpdatedThe port city of Fremantle is set to effectively become a litmus test for the #changethedate movement when the local council holds its "culturally inclusive" alternative celebration to Australia Day two days later.
Topics: australia-day, indigenous-aboriginal-and-torres-strait-islander, fremantle-6160
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| UpdatedNotorious bank robber and prison escapee Brenden Abbott is handed a five-month concurrent jail term for breaking out of Fremantle prison in Perth almost 30 years ago.
Topics: courts-and-trials, prisons-and-punishment, armed-robbery, perth-6000, fremantle-6160, wa
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| UpdatedThe Sea Shepherd conservation group says it has caught the Japanese whaling ship Nisshin Maru in Australian waters with a slaughtered minke whale on board.
Topics: whaling, fremantle-6160, asia, japan
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| UpdatedMore than 2,000 people turned out to watch Fremantle secure a convincing win over Adelaide in the first AFL Women's pre-season clash in Darwin.
Topics: australian-football-league, darwin-0800, fremantle-6160, adelaide-5000
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| UpdatedA 3-kilometre tunnel to Fremantle will be built as part of the next stage of the $1.9 billion Perth Freight Link if the Barnett Government is re-elected in March, but critics say it remains a "road to nowhere".
Topics: states-and-territories, beaconsfield-6162, white-gum-valley-6162, hilton-6163, fremantle-6160, perth-6000, palmyra-6157, wa
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A Perth woman is sentenced to more than six years' jail for stealing $2.1 million from a law firm to fund her "pathological gambling", buy clothes, pay off her mortgage and support her lifestyle.
Topics: law-crime-and-justice, crime, wa, perth-6000, fremantle-6160
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The extraordinary and varied career of Frank Norton is at the heart of a new exhibition in Fremantle.
Topics: history, world-war-2, painting, library-museum-and-gallery, people, perth-6000, fremantle-6160
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| UpdatedOrganisers pledge to ensure the security of patrons as the popular Falls Festival arrives in Fremantle following a crowd stampede in Victoria and sexual assault incidents at the Tasmanian event.
Topics: carnivals-and-festivals, events, arts-and-entertainment, fremantle-6160, wa
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WA Labor's decision to commit to scrapping the Roe 8 project will have far-reaching impacts and debate around the proposed heavy haulage route will form a large part of the looming state election campaign.
Topics: urban-development-and-planning, state-parliament, elections, beeliar-6164, fremantle-6160, perth-6000
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A 57-year-old man dies after suffering a suspected cardiac arrest while swimming near Leighton Beach, south of Perth.
Topics: death, fremantle-6160, iluka-6028, perth-6000