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'We haven't a clue' about communities
Haven't a clue" ... Kevin Rudd says governments don't know enough about indigenous communities.
Public transport boosted for concert
Transperth has scheduled extra train services to help patrons get home from the Simon and Garfunkel concert at Burswood Dome tonight.
Surprised Slattery wins art prize
ARMADALE locals have broken out the bubbly after a local, Jackson Slattery, won one of Australia's top art prizes, the $40,000 Metro Gallery Art Award.
Australian Property Market Boost Thanks To Chinese Wealth
Wealthy Chinese investors are taking advantage of relaxed Australian foreign investor laws to buy property in Melbourne.
Australian Broadcasting Corporation
Barnett introduces weeknight trading bill
Western Australia's Premier Colin Barnett has introduced a bill into State Parliament, proposing extended weeknight shopping hours in Perth until 9:00pm. The bill will apply to areas within the metropolitan boundary bordered by Yanchep, the Swan Valley, Armadale and Rockingham.
Australian Broadcasting Corporation
Mecca painting wins young artist $40,000
Winner of the $40,000 Metro Art Gallery Award -Plastic Everything is Broken by Jackson Slattery.
'He said I'd scratched his car'
A GRANDMOTHER allegedly bashed over a carpark incident at a Perth shopping centre has spoken of her harrowing ordeal.
Curb may lift on mega Perth shopping centres
Restrictions on the size of shopping centres in the metropolitan area could soon be removed, potentially paving the way for a new era of mega shopping centres in WA.
Pastor tells of - disaster' home in baby-death inquest
A coronial inquest into the death of a 15-week-old boy heard today how the boya s family home in Kelmscott was a a oedisaster areaa and would have been condemned if authorities had been aware of its poor state.
DESPITE slumping house prices across the country, the Real Estate Institute of WA claims the Perth market has made a strong comeback in the March quarter.
Storm causes damage across Perth
TRAIN services have shut down and about 60,000 properties are without power after a squally storm swept through the Perth metropolitan area today.
Homes blacked out across Perth as first storm causes widespread damage
About 52,000 homes across Perth are without power after the citya s first storm of the season hit the metropolitan area at midday.
Referendum result was all about location, location, location
West Australians lucky and wealthy enough to live by the beach and river seemed to like daylight saving a lot more than those who lived further inland, referendum results from Saturday indicated.
Brack sale shows life still icy between NGV, ex-curator
The still life by John Brack. Raymond Gill May 6, 2009 RELATIONS between National Gallery of Victoria executives and former senior curator of Australian art Geoffrey Smith have been icy ever since the two parties spectacularly played out their differences in court in 2006.
Perth man facing fraud, stealing charges over bad debt
A Perth man is alleged to have left a paper trail of bad debt worth at least $90,000 in Albany, Busselton and Armadale.
New Grange one for the workers? Not at $600
IT'S classic Australian irony that Foster's chooses May 1 - International Workers' Day - to release its most sumptuous object d'vin: Penfolds Grange.
Innovations can cut housing cost: expert
A low cost housing plan that is aesthetically pleasing and looks like conventional masonry construction is likely to win a good number of customers from the region for an Australian company.
Perth house prices bounce back
PERTH house prices have bounced back in the first three months of the year after a tough 2008, with the number of sales jumping 40 per cent.
Teens charged over delivery driver robbery
Police have charged two teenagers over the alleged armed robbery of a pizza delivery driver in the southern Perth suburb of Mr Richon.
Workers threatened to cut off...
TWO childcare workers have been handed suspended jail terms for holding a knife to a four-year-old boy and threatening to cut off his penis.