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Oar-some effort by Perth Sea Cadets to earn crew qualifications

Full speed ahead for local members once more as they work towards their British Rowing Association Competent Crew Award

Daily Record

Nine Indonesian fishermen feared drowned after boat capsizes off WA's far northern coast

Australian authorities have rescued three of the 12 aboard, with one man transferred from Broome to Perth in a critical condition.

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Cotton, Law shine in Wildcats homecoming

Perth have extended their NBL win streak to six with a 95-85 win over the Breakers, playing in front of their home fans for the first time this year.

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Perth drag artist Ginava messes with gender perceptions, brings to life 'monsters' created by trauma

Ginava's shows not only "mess" with perceptions of gender, but also bring to life the "monsters" created by trauma and personal experience.

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Refugee fabric reuse project is breaking down barriers to employment one stitch at a time

Migrant women in Perth’s most multicultural suburb are earning money through a practical skill many have been doing for years – sewing.

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Carnaby's cockatoos' best breeding season on record credited to 'perfect' artificial breeding hollow

A threatened cockatoo species is in decline, but a breeding ground north of Perth has had its best year on record, with an artificial breeding tube being credited for the success.

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Perth soccer player Danny Hodgson speaks publicly for the first time at club's match after release from hospital

Danny Hodgson attends his soccer club's first home game of the season, the day after coming home from hospital.

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Some Pucovski blows 'not true concussions'

Will Pucovski has been cleared to return to first-class cricket with Victoria in next week's Sheffield Shield final-round clash with Western Australia in Perth.

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Never on a Sunday: Western Australia's long history of banning fun

Almost as soon as the Swan River Colony formed, laws were brought in to ban a host of activities on Sundays. Those laws weren't repealed until more than a century later.

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Perth residents count the cost of record summer temperatures — and the price is too high for many

Perth's summer sent previous heat records tumbling, leaving residents scrambling to adapt. And it is people on low incomes who do it the toughest when it gets hot.

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West Papuan women 'can't keep silent' about the 'torture, inhumane killing' in their country

On the streets of Perth, 4,000 kilometres from PNG, Wiwince Pigome raises the Morning Star flag — in doing so, she renews a decades-long push for independence from Indonesia.

ABC News

SNP candidates put names forward for Perth and Kinross Council elections

Residents will go to the polls to vote for their favourite representatives on May 5

Daily Record

Liberal Democrat stands for election in Perthshire ward colleague has represented for the past 19 years

Violet Iwanio hopes to take the reins representing the Strathmore area from the ward’s current well-known and long serving Liberal Democrat councillor Lewis Simpson who is retiring from local politics

Daily Record

Perth Festival of the Arts starts ticket sales for fantastic 50th anniversary year

Tor two special weeks in May, Perth will welcome internationally acclaimed singers, musicians and actors to celebrate the arts in seven Fair City venues.

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Man dies after Scots flat fire as cops probe blaze

Emergency services scrambled to the property on Bute Drive in Perth after the alarm was raised at around 4.35am on Friday, March 18.

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Man who drove car into wall in Perth found to be five times the drink drive limit

Perth Sheriff Court was told Bruce Joseph Awburn steered a Ford vehicle into a wall at Stuart Avenue on February 11 this year and was then seen by witnesses “staggering” from the wreck shortly afterwards

Daily Record

Council confirms investigation into unauthorised blocking of core path in Perthshire

The local authority previously pointed out anyone wishing to modify the core path west of Luncarty would have to apply for a special order before making any changes

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Perth and Kinross drivers who leave engines idling could soon be fined

The council will adopt anti-idling measures in a bid to reduce carbon emissions

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Perth and Kinross Council's longest-serving councillor Willie Wilson to step down

The former depute provost was first elected as a local representative in 1980

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Perth High School plans given the go-ahead

Councillors unanimously granted planning approval for the £68.7 million Passivhaus project at a meeting this week

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Danny Hodgson's attacker jailed for assaulting WA soccer player in Perth's CBD

A teen is sentenced to almost four years in detention on the same day the man he critically injured, Danny Hodgson, was released from hospital to continue his rehabilitation from home.

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Women at Scarborough beach hold up encouraging signs for joggers in response to men rating women

Perth women respond to a viral video of three men rating women out of 10 with their own signs, telling women they are amazing, perfect and 'bloody beautiful'.

ABC News

Retired Catholic priest Richard Doyle found guilty of molesting young girl decades ago

The court was told Richard Doyle would ask the child for "back scratches" that progressed to sexual abuse while at the family home in Perth's western suburbs more than forty years ago.

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Fall in new WA COVID-19 cases as 6,176 reported, with free RATs offered at Perth train stations

Western Australia records a dip in the number of new COVID-19 cases but the number of active infections continues to surge, as Perth commuters are offered free rapid antigen tests at train stations.

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SafeWA COVID check-in system should be discontinued, says security expert

A Perth internet expert says sharing personal data by checking-in through a QR-code register is a "privacy bargain" that cannot continue indefinitely.

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