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The West Australian
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The front page of tomorrow's The West Australian.
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#BREAKING A heroic man who held a bollard to stop knifeman Joel Cauchi from getting to a children’s play area has been named as Ukrainian man Silas Despreaux.
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The West Australian
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Johnny Depp makes donation to Perth Children’s Hospital Foundation as part of $800,000 gift to charity.
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#EXCLUSIVE : The ex-wife of Attorney-General Christian Porter was among thousands of West Australians to march across the Perth CBD in protest of gender discrimination and violence. 🔒
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Yesterday it was bull sharks, crocodiles and black snakes seen swimming along flooded roads in flooded North Queensland. Today, it’s a giant spider sending shivers down spines.
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EXCLUSIVE: Controversial former Labor prime minister Kevin Rudd is jetting into Perth this week to doorknock voters and attend Anthony Albanese’s campaign launch. #auspol
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The West Australian
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Facebook news ban: #DeleteFacebook movement gains traction across Australia.
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The West Australian
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BREAKING NEWS: Parks and Wildlife manager Jewell Crossberg, who was photographed posing with a firearm alongside dead big game animals in Africa, has been removed from his position. 🔒
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The 30-year-old American man, booted from his parents’ home in a court-ordered eviction, has moved out but not before calling the cops on his own dad over Lego.
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The West Australian
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"We’ve all thoroughly enjoyed our 10 or 11 days here." Ole Gunnar Solskjaer writes exclusively for The West Australian on @ManUtd 's trip to Perth.
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The West Australian
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The front page of Monday's The West Australian.
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Town of Port Hedland council vote to sue WA Government over vaccination mandates. - Via @sam_jones444 #wanews
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The West Australian
2 years
EDITORIAL: If WA can’t open after two years, an economic boom, a relatively healthy population living in mostly hot weather and an urban sprawl that prevents congestion . . . then who the hell can be prepared?
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The front page of Thursday's The West Australian.
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The West Australian
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BREAKING: The controversial overhaul of WA’s Aboriginal heritage laws will be scrapped completely in a stunning development just one month after the changes came into effect.
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The West Australian
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CONFIRMED: Mark McGowan is set to announce the plan to fully reopen WA’s border to quarantine-free travel on February 5 will be delayed, The West Australian has confirmed.
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The West Australian
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Former world champion boxer Anthony Mundine arrived in Broome on September 13 in the first stop on his tour around remote communities to urge them to vote no in the upcoming referendum.
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The West Australian
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#BREAKING : The WA Nationals have withdrawn support for the Voice referendum after a lengthy debate at the party’s State Conference today.
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The West Australian
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Elon Musk has declared independent Tasmanian Senator Jacqui Lambie an ‘enemy of the people of Australia’ amid a legal stoush between the Australian government and the billionaire over extremist content online.
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The West Australian
2 years
Federal election 2022: United Australia Party leader Craig Kelly labels Mark McGowan a ‘human rights abuser’ over vax mandate. - Via @PeterJohnLaw . #wanews
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The West Australian
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An Albanese government would help the McGowan Government fund a new Aboriginal museum in the centre of Perth, something he believes would attract tourists from around the globe. #auspol #ausvotes
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The West Australian
3 years
EXCLUSIVE: Support for WA’s hard border remains almost as high as it was a year ago, with 82 per cent of West Australians backing Premier Mark McGowan’s stance.
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Andrew Mallard, who spent 12 years in a WA jail after being wrongfully convicted of murder, has been killed in a hit-and-run crash in Los Angeles. #perthnews #wanews
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The West Australian
3 years
A study has found that even if you are vaccinated against COVID, you can still easily infect others with the Delta strain.
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The West Australian
2 years
Should Western Australia become the first State to ditch the Union Jack on its flag? A new campaign is urging State politicians to do just that. #wanews #perthnews
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The West Australian
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A WA man allegedly caught a great white shark, removed its monitoring tag then deliberately used the tag to set off shark warnings for nearly a month. #wanews #perthnews
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HAPPENING NOW: Protesters against the McGowan Government’s vaccination mandates are marching to Parliament House in their hundreds. #wanews #perthnews #vaccination #coronavirus
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A restaurant owner in Warwick is unrepentant over breaking COVID laws, saying: 'I can’t stand down, if I stand down they win.'
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The West Australian
2 years
A WA One Nation Senate candidate being preferenced by the Liberal Party has likened Mark McGowan’s vaccine mandates to Nazi Germany.
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The West Australian
3 years
Editorial: Berejiklian’s lack of leadership has affected the whole country. 🔒
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The West Australian
2 years
Pauline Hanson has told Mehreen Faruqi to 'p... off back to Pakistan' after the Greens senator called the Queen 'a leader of a racist empire'.
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The West Australian
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PETER DUTTON: Whatever the Voice referendum outcome, our nation will be divided because of the choices made by Prime Minister Albanese. From day one, his handling of this referendum has been a shambles.
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The West Australian
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BREAKING: Australia’s top businesswoman Gina Rinehart has been named Western Australian of the Year in recognition of her generous philanthropy and unrivalled corporate success.
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The West Australian
2 years
Julie Bishop has refused to back in her successor as Curtin MP Celia Hammond, instead predicting Teal Independent Kate Chaney will provoke 'a lot of soul searching' in the party with a win in her old seat. #auspol #ausvotes
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The West Australian
2 years
The front page of Saturday's The West Australian.
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The West Australian
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WA Liberal Leader Libby Mettam has withdrawn her support for the Voice, revealing she had “growing concerns” about the lack of information provided by the Albanese Government to date.
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The West Australian
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Mining heiress Gina Rinehart is pushing for Australia to become nuclear-powered instead of upsetting farmers with more ‘bird-killing wind generators and massive solar panel stretches’.
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The West Australian
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EXCLUSIVE: WA Liberal leader Libby Mettam wants a ban on medications — commonly known as puberty blockers — for young children with gender dysphoria.
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The West Australian
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Why do you think Australians have voted early? @billshortenmp : “Because people want to change the government.” The crowd loved it. #LeadersDebate #AusVotes19 #zinger
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The West Australian
2 years
Scott Morrison has thrown his support behind a push to ban trans women from competing in female sport.
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The West Australian
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EXCLUSIVE: Premier Mark McGowan has invited the Duke and Duchess of Cambridge to come to Perth for WA’s English Premier League football extravaganza this month.
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The West Australian
3 years
OPINION: Leaders who lack morality and treat their own wives as disposable when they are presiding over 51 per cent of our population is a galling insight into why we continue to struggle for gender equality, writes Emma Husar. 🔒 @emma_husar
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The West Australian
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EDITORIAL: Unfortunately, history is littered with leaders who thought their popularity would be never-ending.
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The West Australian
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Brittany Higgins was left alone to suffer a three-day breakdown in a Perth hotel during the 2019 Federal election campaign, just weeks after she was allegedly raped at Parliament House, it has been revealed. 🔒
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The West Australian
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A dangerous sex offender — once convicted of an evil plot to set up a child abuse ring in Thailand with fellow paedophiles he met in prison — is free in the community having transitioned to living as a woman.
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The West Australian
4 years
#BREAKING : Aussie cricket legend Dean Jones has died suddenly while in India.
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The West Australian
4 years
EXCLUSIVE: Prime Minister Scott Morrison has bowed to political pressure and will let WA keep its hard State border for as long as it wants, The West Australian can reveal. 🔒
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The West Australian
2 years
EXCLUSIVE: Premier Mark McGowan has maintained his commanding approval rating through the Christmas COVID scare — but the outlook is far bleaker for Scott Morrison. #wanews #auspol
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The West Australian
5 years
Ben Unwin, the Australian actor who played Home and Away bad boy Jessie McGregor during the late 1990s and early 2000s, has died aged 41:
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The West Australian
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The front page of Tuesday's The West Australian.
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The West Australian
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Mark McGowan insisting on a self-imposed quarantine on his return from Sydney next month - despite the WA border being reopened - has been dismissed as a 'gimmick and grandstanding'.
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The West Australian
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"Your former premier is a piece of work, like our former premier (Dan Andrews) is a piece of work. We can only hope that we never see them again.”
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The West Australian
3 years
WA MP Andrew Hastie has hit out at Perth and Peel’s snap three-day lockdown as part of a bizarre Anzac Day interview, saying the diggers ‘didn’t go into lockdown when the bullets started flying’. 🔒 #auspol #perthlockdown
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The West Australian
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Mark McGowan says State and Territory leaders had no knowledge of a ‘national stockpile’ of Pfizer vaccines until the weekend’s announcement an additional 50,000 jabs would be diverted and sent to NSW. 🔒 #wanews #perthnews #coronavirus #auspol
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The West Australian
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Editorial: 'It feels at odds to be saying one day that WA needs to remain in a state of emergency, then the next announcing the arrival of an international rugby match and encouraging people to travel from across the world for it.'
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WA’s biggest company, Wesfarmers, is relocating its senior bosses to the east coast in frustration at the McGowan Government’s backflip on hard borders.
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The West Australian
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The front page of Tuesday's The West Australian.
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The West Australian
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EXCLUSIVE: A landowner quoted more than $20,000 for an Aboriginal heritage survey on a residential block in Exmouth fears the property he purchased less than two years ago now risks being rendered “worthless”.
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The West Australian
3 years
When police broke down the door of the Carnarvon home where little Cleo was being held, an officer picked her up in his arms and heard her utter her first words since she went missing 18-days-ago. #CleoSmith
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The West Australian
10 months
In explosive scenes, a WA Labor MP has been heckled by farmers and even had the middle finger pulled at him over the contentious Aboriginal Cultural Heritage Laws.
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The West Australian
1 year
EDITORIAL: It’s clear that Albanese’s transformation was only ever superficial. Beneath the flash new suit and hipster specs lurks the same old socialist.
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The West Australian
2 years
EDITORIAL: The West Australian asks a simple question: Just what has the Government been doing for the past two years? #Editorial #auspol #wanews
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#BREAKING : An inquiry into the alleged conduct of Australian troops in Afghanistan has found war crimes were committed by serving personnel with 39 non-combatants allegedly killed by 25 current or former members.
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The West Australian
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Perth Airport has become the first major airport in the nation to use the traditional names of destinations across Australia at its boarding gates.
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The West Australian
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A WA mayor has sensationally claimed WA's heritage laws shut down a tree planting event while the PM was in town staying silent on the act.
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The West Australian
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JUST IN: The Coalition’s primary vote has plunged to just 36 per cent as Labor also continues to grow its lead in the two-party preferred race heading to the next election, the latest Newspoll reveals. #auspol
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The West Australian
2 years
OPINION: We all know that whatever decision is made will not be perfect in this pandemic environment but the Premier cannot continue to use the politics of fear.
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The front page of Tuesday's The West Australian.
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Alan Joyce reckons WA is starting to get as bad as a North Korea with the State keeping its borders slammed shut to the world.
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The West Australian
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Pfft! You haven't asked us mate ... just name the time and the place and we'll stick it to you! @piersmorgan @PiersUncensored
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We can’t get a single Australian cricketer or journalist to come on @PiersUncensored to defend yesterday’s outrage. Any takers? Or should I assume you’ve all realised it’s beyond defending?
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DON'T YOU KNOW WHO I AM? Eddie McGuire is having another whinge after being denied entry into WA for the grand final.
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The West Australian
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Federal election 2022: Mark McGowan heckled as he casts vote in Perth. - Via @SpagnoloJoe . #auspol #AusVotes22 #wanews
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Less than an hour since the annual fundraising spectacular began, Telethon has hit over $1 million in donations thanks to a generous donation from Gina Rinehart’s Hancock Prospecting.
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Anthony Albanese will visit Perth this weekend to show his gratitude in-person after West Australian voters delivered Labor a majority government. #auspol #Albanese #wanews #perthnews
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The West Australian
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“Hiding behind a closed border, governing using fear as an instrument, keeping families divided, is not leadership. It’s time.”
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The West Australian
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COVID UPDATE: Mark McGowan has announced a third dose of the coronavirus vaccine would now be mandatory for all workers covered by existing orders.
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The West Australian
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EXCLUSIVE: Unvaccinated parents will have to apply for exemptions to visit their sick kids in hospital under a plan being considered by the McGowan Government.
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The West Australian
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Mark McGowan has declared WA is carrying the rest of the country and it is about time everyone east of the border started to appreciate what the State does for Australia. 🔒 #wanews
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The West Australian
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EXCLUSIVE: The WA Liberals would win an election held today, according to remarkable new polling that reveals dramatic upheaval in the State’s political landscape.
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WA’s Spud king Tony Galati has vowed to stock Australia Day-themed products this weekend, just days after a string of retailers ditched the patriotic gear. READ MORE:
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The Shire of Harvey is set to debate whether to abolish the acknowledgement of country, with one councillor calling for the ‘tokenism’ to be scrapped.
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The West Australian
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The West Australian is urging readers to stick pins in a Lionel Messi voodoo doll on the cover of Saturday’s paper to help the Socceroos beat Argentina and the player many consider the Greatest Of All Time.
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LIVE UPDATES: Liberal Senator Michaelia Cash has confirmed she was never asked for her version of events before the Albanese Government paid out $2.4b to Brittany Higgins.
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“We don’t let our kids get sunburnt because of the risk of skin cancer. We shouldn’t let them get infected with SARS-CoV-2 either, because we know it can have serious long-term effects.”
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The West Australian
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A powerful photo has emerged of the moment a Daglish firefighter fell to his knees after a tense and relentless battle to save a home from the devastating Wooroloo blaze.
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The West Australian
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EXCLUSIVE: After 902 days, WA will no longer be in a State of Emergency, officially ending Mark McGowan’s ability to close the borders at will.
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The West Australian
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EXCLUSIVE: Two-thirds of COVID-positive patients at the respiratory and intensive care units of Perth’s biggest hospital were primarily there for another illness or injury, new figures show.
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The West Australian
2 years
The billionaire’s lawyers said the Act — legislation aimed at blocking Clive Palmer from suing the State for $30 billion — showed Mark McGowan had acted in a 'sneaky way and abused his position as Premier'.
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The West Australian
2 years
Seven in 10 nurses want the WA border opening postponed and believe hospitals aren’t ready to cope with an influx of Omicron infections. #wanews #coronavirus
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The West Australian
2 years
Scott Morrison has fired a salvo at Anthony Albanese, saying the Opposition Leader is a Mark McGowan wannabe.
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The West Australian
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The front page of Tuesday's The West Australian.
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Premier Mark McGowan has slammed the NSW's health authorities for ‘believing all that gold standard rubbish’. 🔒 #wanews #nswnews
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