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Power and water has finally been restored in the Western Australian coastal town of Carnarvon, three days after Tropical Cyclone Olwyn ripped through the area, damaging buildings, crops and critical infrastructure.
Topics: storm-disaster, weather, cyclone, cyclones, disasters-and-accidents, carnarvon-6701
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A WA Government report into the handling of the Buswell crash affair has been labelled a whitewash which leaves serious questions about the incident unanswered.
Topics: government-and-politics, road, subiaco-6008, perth-6000
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| UpdatedSeven dogs believed to have attacked and killed a Kimberley teenager are destroyed.
Topics: death, animal-attacks, fitzroy-crossing-6765
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A baby gibbon hand-raised at Perth Zoo after his mother had trouble caring for him is now back with his family and doing well.
Topics: animals, zoos, animal-science, perth-6000
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| UpdatedWA opener Cameron Bancroft's 211 secured a draw against NSW and progress to the Sheffield Shield final.
Topics: cricket, sport, perth-6000, wa, melbourne-3000, vic, hobart-7000, tas, sydney-2000, nsw, australia
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| UpdatedA smart phone initiative that will reveal where produce comes from is launched by the WA Farmers Federation.
Topics: agricultural-crops, agricultural-policy, food-and-beverage, food-safety, wa
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| UpdatedA West Australian grazier is warning there will be nobody left grazing sheep in his area, unless funding for a new wild dog fence is confirmed.
Topics: dog, sheep-production, goat-production, regional-development, geraldton-6530
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A doctor hid behind medical treatment to sexually abuse his patients, including a heavily pregnant woman, at a practice in Bunbury south of Perth, a court hears.
Topics: courts-and-trials, sexual-offences, bunbury-6230, perth-6000
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| UpdatedGrain growers are forming an industry based steering committee to change the structure of the Grains Research and Development Corporation.
Topics: federal-government, agricultural-policy, wheat, grain, agricultural-crops, geraldton-6530
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| UpdatedA woman accused of causing a crash that killed her teenage daughter is at a high risk of suicide, a Perth court has been told.
Topics: road, traffic-offences, courts-and-trials, merriwa-6030
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Fremantle Dockers midfielder Ryan Crowley makes a brief statement to media after the club announced he had tested positive to a substance banned under the AFL's anti-doping code.
Topics: australian-football-league, doping-in-sports, fremantle-6160
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Norton Gold Fields says it is fighting to remain profitable in one of the toughest climates gold producers have experienced in years.
Topics: gold, mining-industry, kalgoorlie-6430, esperance-6450
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The Shire of Manjimup, in south-west Western Australia, has organised to rebuild more than 100 kilometres of fencing lost in the Northcliffe bushfires last month.
Topics: bushfire, fires, volunteers, local-government, northcliffe-6262, manjimup-6258
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| UpdatedFremantle Dockers' midfielder Ryan Crowley has been suspended after testing positive to a banned substance.
Topics: australian-football-league, sport, perth-6000, fremantle-6160
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A trial date is set for a 34-year-old doctor accused of murdering her husband in Geraldton, in Western Australia's Mid West.
Topics: law-crime-and-justice, courts-and-trials, geraldton-6530
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| UpdatedTwo teenagers receive electric shocks from a fallen streetlight near Mandurah, in Perth's south.
Topics: accidents---other, mandurah-6210
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| UpdatedA legal battle is looming over who has the right to decide where the Sheffield Shield cricket final will be held.
Topics: cricket, sport, perth-6000, wa, melbourne-3000, vic
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| UpdatedThe Western Australian town of Carnarvon is starting to clean up and assess the damage from Tropical Cyclone Olwyn.
Topics: rural, community-development, crop-harvesting, agricultural-crops, bananas, disasters-and-accidents, kununurra-6743, carnarvon-6701
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Pastoralists in the Kimberley are experiencing a dramatic change in fortune, from average losses per station of $150,000 two years ago to profits of $650,000 last year.
Topics: rural, livestock, broome-6725
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| UpdatedChristmas Island is commonly known for its immigration detention centre and highly profitable phosphate mining, and not so much for innovative farming.
Topics: rural, fruit, agricultural-crops, vegetables, maroochydore-4558, perth-6000, darwin-0800, christmas-island-6798
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| UpdatedAn incident in which a worker had his legs crushed on Barrow Island, off WA's Pilbara coast, is being investigated by the federal workplace safety body.
Topics: workplace, accidents, disasters-and-accidents, unions, barrow-island-6712, karratha-6714
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| UpdatedThe coastal WA town of Carnarvon is today expected to be declared a natural disaster zone in the wake of Cyclone Olwyn, giving it much-needed access to government assistance.
Topics: cyclone, disasters-and-accidents, cyclones, emergency-incidents, carnarvon-6701, geraldton-6530, wa
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| UpdatedA base jumper is injured after jumping from a 25-storey building in Perth, police say.
Topics: lifestyle-and-leisure, police, perth-6000
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| UpdatedFormer AFL star Ben Cousins is caught inside the secure facility of Perth's Special Air Service Regiment and taken to hospital, possibly to have had his mental health assessed.
Topics: drug-use, drugs-and-substance-abuse, defence-and-national-security, australian-football-league, sport, perth-6000, wa, australia
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| UpdatedThe WA farming families at the centre of a bitter legal dispute over the cross-contamination of organic and genetically modified crops explain the heartache court action has caused.
Topics: law-crime-and-justice, courts-and-trials, agricultural-chemicals, agricultural-crops, agricultural-policy, agribusiness, rural, kojonup-6395, wa, australia