Publication: WA Today

First reported 5 hours ago - Updated 3 hours ago - 2 reports

Without further adieu, join me for a sneak peak into the mind of a dill

Attention: This is a public service announcement. There are some matters urgently in need of discussion. Nothing about the below is easy, and I don't like having to say it. I'm not blaming anyone in particular, either - so don't take it personally. But ... [Published WA Today - 3 hours ago]

Entities: P.E.A.K, World Wide Fund For Nature, Annabel Crabb

First reported 4 hours ago - Updated 4 hours ago - 1 reports

It will take time and a resolute heart to exorcise the terra nullius demon

Iwork at the Victorian Aboriginal Child Care Agency, one of the oldest Aboriginal community-controlled organisations in Victoria. There I have the great honour of working alongside people whose ancestors include some of our great Victorian Aboriginal ... [Published WA Today - 4 hours ago]

Entities: Referendum, William Barak, Michael Long, Paul Keating, Australia

First reported 4 hours ago - Updated 4 hours ago - 1 reports

Rod Stewart

Legally bland: Rockin' Rod's still tartan himself up after all these years

Rod Stewart. How can you not like him, the shaggy-headed, rasp-voiced, lovable rapscallion? That's easy. Da Ya Think I'm Sexy? is a good start.Yes, UNICEF benefited from the song's success when he sang it at a benefit concert; sure, it was allegedly a ... [Published WA Today - 4 hours ago]

Entities: Rod Stewart, Bob Dylan, Britt Ekland, New Wave Group, United Nations International Children's Emergen...

First reported 4 hours ago - Updated 4 hours ago - 1 reports

Life distilled in images of good and evil

In recent days and weeks, images of Nicky Winmar bravely confronting racist fans at Victoria Park 20 years ago have rightly been celebrated. But there was another picture published the same day in the same newspaper - this one - that was just as big an ... [Published WA Today - 4 hours ago]

Entities: Paul Robinson, Nicky Winmar, Distillation

First reported 4 hours ago - Updated 4 hours ago - 1 reports

Tony Abbott

Easy solution for a land of rising sums

Hands up if you think the GST is going to stay at 10 per cent.If you believe that, I bet you also believed in the tooth fairy, in the Australian government when it said it would only use the tax file number for tax, in Julia Gillard when she said she ... [Published WA Today - 4 hours ago]

Entities: Taxes, Carbon Tax, Roll Back, Tony Abbott

First reported May 24 2013 - Updated 20 hours ago - 2 reports

Denis Napthine

Govts want 'generous' Ford contribution

AAPFord is under pressure to cough up significant cash to help employees set to lose their jobs in Geelong and Melbourne retrain for other work.Ford has pledged to contribute to the government fund to help the 1200 workers at its Broadmeadows and Geelong ... [Published WA Today - May 24 2013]

Entities: Denis Napthine, Bob Graziano, Julia Gillard, Melbourne, Daniel Andrews

First reported May 24 2013 - Updated May 24 2013 - 2 reports

Bob Hawke

Hawke pays tribute to 'outstanding' Hazel

AAPFormer prime minister Bob Hawke has spoken of his enduring affection for ex-wife Hazel and says she made an outstanding first lady.Mrs Hawke died on Thursday aged 83 after a 12-year battle with Alzheimer's disease. Her family says she passed away peacefully ... [Published WA Today - May 24 2013]

Entities: Bob Hawke, Hazel Hawke, Malcolm Turnbull

First reported May 24 2013 - Updated May 24 2013 - 2 reports

Police seek caller over caustic soda incident

Police want to speak to an anonymous female caller as part of the investigation into how caustic soda was fed to customers at a fast food outlet in Bunbury.More than a dozen customers sought medical treatment after eating chips from a Chicken Treat store ... [Published WA Today - May 24 2013]

Entities: Chicken Treat, Sodium Hydroxide, Police, Investigation, Homemaker

First reported May 24 2013 - Updated May 24 2013 - 2 reports

Packer's one shot at Barangaroo

James Packer is used to getting what he wants, even if it comes at a price. The sale of Crown?s 10 per cent stake in rival casino operator, Echo Entertainment, on Thursday evening crystalised a loss as high as $38 million, according to analysts.But it ... [Published WA Today - May 24 2013]

Entities: James Packer, Casino, Sydney (Australia)

First reported May 23 2013 - Updated May 24 2013 - 4 reports

Stocks to watch at close on Friday

AAPStocks to watch on the Australian stock exchange at close on Friday:AAC - AUSTRALIAN AGRICULTURAL COMPANY LTD - down two cents at $1.08Australia's largest beef cattle producer has blamed the suspension of live exports to Indonesia for a $46.5 million ... [Published WA Today - May 24 2013]

Entities: Echo Entertainment Group, Casino, Crown Ltd

First reported May 23 2013 - Updated May 24 2013 - 2 reports

With no factories, how can we build a future?

The question that nags away in the minds of many in the manufacturing sector is a worrying one: has a decision been made in Canberra to sacrifice manufacturing on the altar of regional harmony? In other words, have the economists who advise government, ... [Published WA Today - May 23 2013]

Entities: Australia, Commonwealth Scientific and Industrial Research..., Manufacturing

First reported May 23 2013 - Updated May 23 2013 - 2 reports

Dulux pulls paints out of Masters, Danks

DuluxGroup has withdrawn its paint products from Masters and Danks stores to work more closely with other retailers.The decision was in response to US-owned paint competitors becoming more closely aligned with resellers in Australia, DuluxGroup said in ... [Published WA Today - May 23 2013]

Entities: DuluxGroup Ltd, DANKS HOLDINGS LIMITED, WATTYL LIMITED, Australia, Patrick Houlihan

Quotes

A friend of mine once got in a terrible bind about his buddy who regularly - when excited - described things as ''penultimate'', as in "Oh my God. Did you see that tackle? That was just the penultimate, man."

Without further adieu, join me for a sneak peak into the mind of a dill [Published WA Today - 3 hours ago]

Last year was the 20th anniversary of the Redfern speech. As the then prime minister Paul Keating said: "The starting point might be to recognise that the problem starts with ? non-Aboriginal Australians. It begins, I think, with an act of recognition. Recognition that it was we who did the dispossessing. We took the traditional lands and smashed the traditional way of life. We brought the diseases and the alcohol. We committed the murders. We took the children from their mothers. We practised discrimination and exclusion."

It will take time and a resolute heart to exorcise the terra nullius demon [Published WA Today - 4 hours ago]

Stewart said of his latest success that you could have knocked him down with a feather. "Just goes to show there's still plenty of songs left in the old violin. My assumption was that I was finished as a songwriter."

Legally bland: Rockin' Rod's still tartan himself up after all these years [Published WA Today - 4 hours ago]

The image was deeply confronting, especially when it appeared under the headline: "She is 13. This Australian tourist has just bought her for the night." Robinson's report, along with more pictures, ran across two pages inside the paper...

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