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  1. "Appalling" teen drinking prompts campaign 

    News - National

    Tuesday, 29 September 2009

    Western Australia's government is "appalled" at the level of binge drinking among teenagers, with the worst being 17 year old girls, found by the Australian School Students Alcohol and Drug survey, the state's biggest survey of student drug and alcohol use.

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  2. Council denies Catholic charity closure order 

    News - National

    Tuesday, 22 September 2009

    The City of Bayswater in Western Australia has denied asking a Church run Shopfront centre to close, saying the organisation needs to apply for a permit to serve food but it may continue its food service to the homeless in the interim.

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  3. Kokoda crash victim a "superhero" 

    News - National

    Monday, 07 September 2009

    Kokoda plane crash victim Matthew Leonard was remembered as a "superhero" during a funeral Mass held in Perth. The 28 year old was among 13 killed in the ill-fated flight to Papua New Guinea.

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  4. Monks to dust off archives 

    News - National

    Tuesday, 25 August 2009

    The monks of Australia's only monastic town, New Norcia, have established a scholarship in honour of their late Abbot, Placid Spearritt (photo), to bring a scholar on an annual basis to work in the monastery's extensive archives.

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  5. Transexuals win WA tribunal recognition on gender 

    News - National

    Friday, 21 August 2009

    Two Western Australian women who consider themselves men have won a legal recognition of their new gender, news reports said.

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  6. Assisted suicide preferred over starvation, says Perth quadriplegic 

    News - National

    Friday, 14 August 2009

    Quadriplegic Perth man Christian Rossiter has asked The Brightwater Care Group, which cares for him, to stop feeding him through a tube, but would rather travel to Switzerland for assisted death.

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  7. Priest robbed and terrorised in road rage attack 

    News - National

    Friday, 24 July 2009

    Perth priest Father John Ryan, 73, feared he was going to die after being chased in his car for an hour during a "terrifying" road rage attack, a news report said.

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  8. Perth's St Mary's to open on Feast Day 

    News - National

    Thursday, 23 July 2009

    Perth Archbishop Barry Hickey said the official opening and re-dedication of St Mary's Cathedral, Perth, will take place on Tuesday December 8, 2009, coinciding with the Feast of the Immaculate Conception.

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  9. Baby twins funeral in Perth suburb 

    News - National

    Tuesday, 21 July 2009

    A throng of mourners farewelled seven month old twins Sophie and Lachlan Ariyaratnam at a funeral service in Perth's Notre Dame church, while the children's mother, who has been charged with murder, was absent.

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  10. Pilgrims to walk 125 km to Australia's only monastic town 

    News - National

    Monday, 13 July 2009

    The first group of walkers are poised to take on 125 kilometre walk from St Joseph's Church in Subiaco to the country's only monastic town, New Norcia, tracing a route travelled by Dom Rosendo Salvado in the 1860s.

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