Perth church protesters spared jail for refugee sit-in at Minister's office
A group of Perth church leaders who staged a sit-in at Minister for Justice Michael Keenan's office to protest against refugee children living in detention centres have been given spent convictions for trespassing and released on good behaviour bonds. The group, sentenced in Perth Magistrates Court on Wednesday, refused to leave Mr Keenan's Innaloo office on February 20, after learning the High Court of Australia had ruled that it was legal for Australia to send 267 refugees, including Australi..>> view originalSouth Perth residents win high-rise fight as City votes to soften ...
Residents are celebrating the City of South Perth's backflip on high-rise heights but developers say the council has created a situation so bewildering it resembles Alice's adventures in Wonderland.Horrified by a tidal wave of development after adoption of a new town planning scheme, residents have lobbied the council to tone it down. High Rise Fight South Perth residents are fighting for height restrictions to buildings in the area. Vision: Nine News Perth. Meanwhile, developers h..>> view originalPolice release images in hunt for killer of Perth grandmother Valeria ...
Police release images in hunt for killer of Perth grandmother Valeria Fermendjin Updated April 27, 2016 14:57:29 Police have released a series of images of people they want to question in relation to the death of a 70-year-old woman in the Perth suburb of Melville in January.Valeria Fermendjin was killed in her Melville home on Leach Highway sometime between 7:30am and 8:30am on January 5.Police believe the grandmother received the injuries that killed her when an offen..>> view originalTina Chinery resigns as head of new Perth Children's Hospital to ...
Tina Chinery resigns as head of new Perth Children's Hospital to take job in Queensland Updated April 27, 2016 15:50:00 The head of the already delayed new Perth Children's Hospital has quit the post to take a job in Queensland.Tina Chinery has held the role of executive director commissioning since November 2014, after replacing Greg Italiano, who ceased involvement on the project in October 2014.It is the latest blow to the $1.2 billion new hospital, which was origin..>> view originalEmbattled Perth mayor 'entitled' to trip
Taking a ratepayer-funded trip to Texas while being investigated for undeclared travel could be seen as a bad look but the Perth Lord Mayor is entitled to go, WA Premier Colin Barnett says.Lisa Scaffidi will visit Houston next month to attend the World Energy Cities Partnership meetings, with the City of Perth approving the trip that will cost ratepayers an estimated $12,000.A Department of Local Government inquiry into Ms Scaffidi's undeclared travel and accommodation is yet to be publicly rel..>> view originalManhunt underway after triple shooting in Perth kills bikie gang ...
Manhunt underway after triple shooting in Perth kills bikie gang member, injures two others Updated April 27, 2016 17:11:48 Police are hunting a gunman who killed a member of a bikie gang and wounded another two members of his family in a shooting in the northern Perth suburb of Banskia Grove. Key points:Three men shot in Perth's north, 23-year-old man from Wanneroo died53-year-old man and 24-year-old son in stable conditionPolice continue to hunt shooter Police were ..>> view originalPerth mum's search for father of her 12-year-old daughter goes viral
A Perth woman is appealing to social media users to help find the father of her daughter before her upcoming 13th birthday. Thirteen years ago Kerryn-Leigh met an Australian named Rodney in Queenstown and nine months later she gave birth to their daughter without his knowledge. Kerryn-Leigh and her daughter Imi years earlier. Photo: Facebook The 52-year-old, a jewellery designer originally from Christchurch but based in Perth, has taken to social media in an attempt to find Rodney, so ..>> view originalPerth shivers through coldest April day in two years
Winter is on its way as Perth shivered through its coldest day of the year and coldest April day in two years on Wednesday.Bureau of Meteorologist spokesman Neil Bennett said the cooler temperature was marked by weather patterns beginning to change from dry summer easterly winds to westerly winter winds. Bureau of Meteorology says Perth's weather patterns are changing to cooler winter winds. Photo: Ben Rushton He said temperatures reached a maximum of 19.5 degrees around 3.15pm on Wedn..>> view originalPerth father likely to plead insanity over dousing children with petrol ...
Perth father likely to plead insanity over dousing children with petrol, lawyer says Posted April 27, 2016 14:33:34 A Perth man accused of dousing two of his children with petrol and setting one alight will be pleading not guilty on the grounds of insanity, his lawyer has indicated.Edward John Herbert is accused of attempting to murder his daughters aged 3 and 7 at the family's Doubleview home in August last year.It is alleged the 3-year-old was set on fire while she ..>> view originalSurvey pinpoints Perth suburbs to watch
Alkimos, one of the suburbs tipped for above-average price growth in 2016.FOUR Perth suburbs have been tipped to experience above-average price growth this year in a survey of industry professionals.Although property prices in Alkimos, Baldivis, Forrestfield and Scarborough have dropped or stagnated in the past three months, the latest NAB Quarterly Australian Residential Property Survey revealed the four as the suburbs to keep an eye on this year.The best performer among those suburbs in the th..>> view original
Wednesday, April 27, 2016
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