Western Australia

The Good Parents by Joan London | Book review

Clare Clark on a tangled family web Maya de Jong, an 18-year-old girl from small-town western Australia, moves to Melbourne. There she tentatively embraces her adult self, renting a room in the house of an experimental...

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Opportunity in Ouirgane

Contemporary architect-designed, pavilion-style villas are among the properties on offer in this narrow valley that's an oasis of verdant juniper and pine trees, cerulean skies and olive and almond groves

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A90 closed after fatal accident

A 45-year-old woman has died after being hit by a lorry on the A90 between Perth and Dundee. Tayside police said the accident happened about 2050 GMT on Friday night near to the junction with Star Inn Road after the woman got...

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Australian court sentences Malaysian who posed as taxi driver

MELBOURNE: A Malaysian-born sexual predator who posed as a taxi driver and sexually assaulted more than 20 young men he picked up in a state of drunken stupor has been jailed a minimum of 18 years by a Perth judge.

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Whincup wins race one (Newstalk ZB)

Newstalk ZB November 21, 2009, 6:58 pm Championship leader Jamie Whincup has won race one of the penultimate V8 Supercar round at Barbagallo Raceway in Perth. The Triple Eight Racing driver has won in commanding fashion ahead...

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Craig Lowndes takes pole position in WA (Newstalk ZB)

Newstalk ZB November 21, 2009, 2:09 pm Ford driver Craig Lowndes has claimed his first pole position since 2005 in the V8 Supercar Championship. Lowndes will start on pole for this afternoon's race one at the Barbagallo Raceway...

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Further charges over funeral shooting

POLICE have laid further charges after two people shot into a crowd that had gathered for a funeral in a West Australian town. A long-running feud between two Aboriginal families escalated after members gathered following the...

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Be in the running for a good cause (The West Australian)

DANIEL EMERSON, The West Australian November 21, 2009, 1:03 pm The leaders of WA's six chronic disease charities joined forces yesterday in an unprecedented united front against ill health to launch the hottest new event on the...

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'Bad signals' From Fiji's TV and Radio Takeover, Says Smith

PERTH—The Fiji military regime's seizure of broadcast licences is a "very bad signal" for international investment and freedom of speech in the Pacific nation, Foreign Minister Stephen Smith says. Mr Smith said on Saturday that...

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Newest zoo cutie gets kiss for a cause (The West Australian)

JOSEPH CATANZARO, The West Australian November 21, 2009, 12:51 pm The baby orang-utan awakened slowly, her liquid brown eyes full of innocent curiosity as she looked up at the older primate cradling her in its powerful arms....

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