Monday, April 11, 2016

Wesfarmers takes action against staff over Target rebates and other top stories.

  • Wesfarmers takes action against staff over Target rebates

    Wesfarmers takes action against staff over Target rebates
    Wesfarmers' group net profit would have been $15 million, or 1.1 per cent lower than reported. Photo: Steven Siewert SWS Wesfarmers said it has taken disciplinary action against a number of Target employees who inflated the retailers' first-half earnings by almost 40 per cent by colluding with about 31 suppliers to book extra rebates in return for promises of higher prices.The Perth-based conglomerate has released the initial outcome of a two-week investigati..
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  • Perth weather: Downpours expected for Perth and South West as ...

    Perth weather: Downpours expected for Perth and South West as ...
    Perth and parts of the south-west are bracing for a wet few days ahead with thunderstorms and rain predicted for Monday to Tuesday. The gloomy forecast comes after a resident in Eaton was photographed paddling a kayak down a street on Sunday after seven millimetres of rain fell within 10 minutes around 5pm and caused a flash flood. South West weather A downpour in WA's south west has filled a street in Eaton. Vision: Mel Milligan. The wet weather will continue for western parts of ..
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  • Perth, southern half facing wet 48 hours

    Perth, southern half facing wet 48 hours
    Broad surface trough bringing widespread rain and thunderstorms to much of the southern half of WA. Picture: Bureau of MeteorologyPERTH and much of the southern half of WA is facing a wet 48 hours with heavy rain tipped for Monday which will push into Tuesday.The bureau is forecasting a high chance of rain — 90 per cent — for Monday with the chance of thunderstorms which could bring 10mm to 20mm for the Perth metropolitan area with a further 4mm to 8mm on Tuesday.Perth is expecting a top of 25C ..
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  • Woman charged with stabbing murder in Maddington, Perth

    Woman charged with stabbing murder in Maddington, Perth
    Woman charged with stabbing murder in Maddington, Perth Posted April 11, 2016 12:13:27 A woman has been charged with murder over the stabbing death of a man in the Perth suburb of Maddington early on Sunday morning.Police were called to the house on Cedar Way about 1:00am.A 41-year-old man was found with serious wounds. He was taken to hospital but died a short time later.A 40-year-old Maddington woman has been charged with his murder, and is expected to appear in Arm..
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  • Telstra inks $1.6b NBN deal, ACCC raises concerns

    Telstra inks $1.6b NBN deal, ACCC raises concerns
    The competition watchdog is concerned about advantages that Telstra may receive over its rivals due to its involvement in the rollout of the national broadband network, after the telco inked a $1.6 billion deal to help with the rollout of the hybrid fibre-coaxial (HFC) network it sold to NBN in 2014.Telstra will provide planning, design, construction and construction management services as NBN aims to complete the HFC upgrade by 2020.Telstra and Optus's HFC networks, which were sold to NBN in D..
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  • Motorcyclist's lucky escape after bike flips at Perth Motorplex

    Motorcyclist's lucky escape after bike flips at Perth Motorplex
    Motorcyclist's lucky escape after bike flips at Perth Motorplex Natalie Richards - The West Australian on April 11, 2016, 10:03 am Video Perth motorcyclist's near miss after bike backflips The moment a Perth motorcyclist was flung from his bike after it flipped underneath him, has been captured on camera.Brett Ghedina walked away unscathed after being thrown from his bike when it leapt into the air during a drag race at Perth Motorplex on April 2.In a video, which has been v..
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  • Perth mothers share breast milk online to feed babies

    Perth mothers share breast milk online to feed babies
    'Breast is best' is the message driven home to all expecting and new mums. But the breastfeeding journey is not always an easy one for some women.Now new Perth mothers who wish to breastfeed their babies but struggle to do so have sparked a thriving online market trading the 'liquid gold' - human breast milk – despite mixed reaction from health officials. Expressed breast milk is being shared by women. Photo: Getty Images While the concept of wet nurses might conjure up images of well-to..
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  • Suspect arrested after toddler killed in hit-and-run

    Suspect arrested after toddler killed in hit-and-run
    Lucas Davey. A Perth mother is mourning the loss of her "most beautiful baby boy" after a hit-and-run tragedy in Western Australia. Shannon Davey was visiting the Perth suburb of Merriwa on Friday afternoon when she stopped to speak with a family friend, Perth Now reports.Ms Davey said she handed her 22-month-old son Lucas to his older brother to watch while she approached the car to chat. "He put him just a little bit further up the driveway with the rest of the kids who were playing," she sai..
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  • From swamp land to soccer ground: William Loton and the creation ...

    From swamp land to soccer ground: William Loton and the creation ...
    From swamp land to soccer ground: William Loton and the creation of Perth Oval Posted April 11, 2016 15:04:46 Loton Park was once a lake, then a paddock and is now the home of Perth Glory and Australia's only gay and lesbian tennis club.Today the site is known more commonly as Perth Oval, but the area in East Perth was once named for William Loton."Loton was a well-known pastoralist and merchant and he was in the legislative council, as well as being mayor of Perth fr..
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  • Perth teenager Tyde Levi cements himself as YouTube royalty - The ...

    Perth teenager Tyde Levi cements himself as YouTube royalty - The ...
    Jessie Papain - The West Australian on April 11, 2016, 9:32 am Video YouTube’s biggest stars visit Australia He may hail from one of the most isolated cities in the world but Tyde Levi has firmly cemented himself as international YouTube royalty.The Perth 16-year-old, who is the younger brother of internet wunderkind and singer Troye Sivan, has almost one million combined followers on social media, thanks to his popular YouTube vlogs and has spent much of the past year jetsetting across t..
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