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PRESCRIBED BURNS GET IMMEDIATE OVERHAUL
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Hon Colin Barnett MLA
Premier
Hon Bill Marmion MLA
Environment
Mr Mick Keelty
Mr Wayne Gregson
CEO FESA
23-February-2012
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PRESCRIBED BURNS GET IMMEDIATE OVERHAUL
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Hon Bill Marmion MLA
Environment
Hon Colin Barnett MLA
Premier
Mr Mick Keelty
Mr Wayne Gregson
CEO FESA
23-February-2012
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PRESCRIBED BURNS GET IMMEDIATE OVERHAUL
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Mr Mick Keelty
Hon Colin Barnett MLA
Premier
Hon Bill Marmion MLA
Environment
Mr Wayne Gregson
CEO FESA
23-February-2012
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PRESCRIBED BURNS GET IMMEDIATE OVERHAUL
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Mr Wayne Gregson
CEO FESA
Hon Colin Barnett MLA
Premier
Hon Bill Marmion MLA
Environment
Mr Mick Keelty
23-February-2012
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Office of Bushfire Risk Management established under FESA CEO. Assistance up to $190,000 available for victims. All 10 recommendations of Mick Keelty's report to be urgently implemented. Premier Colin Barnett today tabled in State Parliament Appreciating the Risk - The Report of the Special Inquiry Into the November 2011 Margaret River Bushfire. Mr Barnett said the State Government would establish a new Office of Bushfire Risk Management to oversee changes to the prescribed burns program following the release of the report. Gazetted fire districts in South-West: Area broadly bounded from Redgate to Witchcliffe to Cowaramup to Gracetown; Area broadly bounded from Busselton to Vasse to Smith's Beach; Augusta and the strip adjoining Bussell Highway north to Karridale. These gazettals mean FESA (either through a career Fire and Rescue Service station or a volunteer Fire and Rescue Service Brigade) becomes the hazard management authority within the boundaries of the gazetted district and will have direct responsibility for primary response. State Emergency Management Committee, chaired by Police Commissioner Karl O'Callaghan, will oversee the implementation by DEC of the recommendations. Appreciating the Risk - The Report of the Special Inquiry Into the November 2011 Margaret River Bushfire available at www.publicsector.wa.gov.au/.
South West Bushfire Risk Zone / Indicative Proposed New Gazetted Fire Districts 2012a / Indicative Proposed New Gazetted Fire Districts 2015a
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LAUNCH (I)PAD FOR PEOPLE WITH DISABILITY
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Hon Helen Morton MLC
Disability Services
22-February-2012
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Digital initiative promotes inclusive communities. People with intellectual disability to be trained to use iPad/iPod touch. People with intellectual disability will post their stories, films, photographs and audio grabs on a new website using iPads and iPod Touch. Thanks to a $300,000 State Government Social Innovation Grant, Disability in the Arts, Disadvantage in the Arts (DADAA) will run the Multi Modal Project to develop a website and iPad app to bridge the digital divide for people with disability. About 216,000 West Australians have a disability (SDAC, 2009). About 125,000 West Australians with disability are in the workforce. About 10,000 West Australians with disability are seeking work.
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DESIGN FOR MIDLAND HEALTH CAMPUS UNVEILED
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Hon Kim Hames MLA
Health
15-February-2012
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Proposed master plan for Midland Health Campus released. Public comment invited. Building set to start mid-year, due to open in 2015. The State Government unveiled the master plan for the new 367-bed Midland Health Campus and the vision for the future expansion to a 464-bed hospital. St John of God Health Care is the preferred respondent to partner with the State in delivering the new hospital in a public private partnership and is releasing the master plan - developed in conjunction with its design and construction partners, Hassell and Brookfield Multiplex - to the public as it begins the planning approval process. For more information, visit www.midlandhealthcampus.health.wa.gov.au/, email mhc.redevelopment@health.wa.gov.au or phone 1800-014-087. The Midland Health Campus Master Plan will be advertised by the Metropolitan Redevelopment Authority for public comment in the coming weeks.
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$14B LOCAL CONTENT CONTRACTS AWARDED
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Hon Simon O'Brien MLC
Commerce
14-February-2012
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WA-based companies awarded more than $14billion in contracts. Thousands of jobs created through new resource contracts. Commerce Minister Simon O'Brien announced that more than $14billion worth of contracts had been awarded to locally-based companies by the State's resource sector since July 2011, promising thousands of new jobs for West Australians. Mr O'Brien said this was an outstanding outcome and evidence the Liberal-National Government's approach to local industry participation was working. "In July last year, I launched the Government's new Local Industry Participation Framework which sent a clear message to project proponents that local content is a high priority," he said. To find out what the State Government is doing in the area of local industry participation, visit http://www.commerce.wa.gov.au/localindustryparticipation.
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DAVEY SHEARER TO REDESIGN ROTTO GOLF COURSE
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BIG BOOST FOR ROTTO CAMPERS
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Hon Kim Hames MLA
Tourism
14-February-2012
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Experienced golf design company wins EOI to redesign golf course. Nine new grass greens, fairways re-grassed; new tees and irrigation. EOI for golf course operation still pending. Rottnest Island's existing golf course is set to undergo a major facelift after an experienced Australian company won the expression-of-interest to undertake a redesign. Tourism Minister Kim Hames said Melbourne-based Davey Shearer beat a strong field. "Davey Shearer has a strong history of redesigning golf courses and is currently working on Victoria's Mildura Golf Resort and projects overseas," Dr Hames said. Green designs expected to be completed within next few months. Construction works due to be completed in November 2012. Rottnest Island Authority has conducted an EOI for the operation of the golf course, and associated country club and conference centre. Biggest upgrade of visitor infrastructure in recent years.
$750,000 Rottnest Island campground redevelopment. Improves breadth of accommodation types on the island. New barbecue facilities, strategic camp sites installed during stage one. Stage two to involve new ablutions, landscaping and camp kitchen. Camping enthusiasts will be treated to a $750,000 upgrade on Rottnest Island with the redevelopment of the campground, Tourism Minister Kim Hames said. The campground has had new barbecue facilities installed; tent sites strategically relocated; and landscaping to improve privacy and amenity. Rottnest Island campground relocated in 2007. Former site was close to an Aboriginal burial ground. Upgrade is part of making the new site permanent, more attractive. Rates for the campground are $12 per adult per night year-round for 2012-13.
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ROTTO BOARDWALK USES 2.2 MILLION PLASTIC BAGS
OPENING
Hon Kim Hames MLA
Tourism
14-February-2012
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New $300,000 boardwalk opened at Rottnest Island West End. Boardwalk built mostly from recycled and recyclable material. Includes 200,000 2L milk bottles and 2.25 million plastic bags. Funded mainly by the Rottnest Foundation. Tourism Minister Kim Hames said Rottnest Island's West End had become more accessible for all holiday-makers with a new $300,000 boardwalk. "This 120m boardwalk and viewing platform is suitable for people in a wheelchair to access, so opens up this part of Rottnest Island to more visitors," he said. For more information about the Coastal Walk Trail project and future development of the 50km walking path, visit www.rottnestisland.com/coastal-walk-trail/coastal-walk-trail. The new West End Boardwalk was built by Australian recycling company Replas: www.replas.com.au/. More about the independent volunteer group, the Rottnest Foundation, visit www.rottnestfoundation.org.au/. The Winnit Club, founded in 1930-31, is Rottnest Island's longest-standing volunteer organisation.
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EMERGING DRUG, MDPV BANNED IN WA
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Hon Helen Morton MLC
Mental Health
8-February-2012
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Effects include acute cardiovascular and central nervous system toxicity. MDPV to be illegal from midnight Friday February 10, 2012. The potentially fatal psychoactive drug, MDPV will be banned in Western Australia from midnight on Friday. With effects including anxiety, paranoia, acute cardiovascular and central nervous system toxicity, MDPV (3,4 methylenedioxypyrovalerone), will become an illicit substance when it is added to Schedule 9 (Prohibited Substances) of the Poisons Act 1964 (WA). Mental Health Minister Helen Morton said anyone caught with it could be charged for possession, selling, supplying or intent to sell or supply. MDPV linked to an increase in drug induced casualties in Eastern States' hospitals. One man, aged 40, was believed to have died from an overdose in December 2011 in South Australia and a fatal overdose has been reported in Victoria. MDPV is an alkaloid drug of the phenethylamine class that is structurally related to cathinone or MDMA (often used as an ingredient in ecstasy). MDPV has already been banned in the UK, Israel and South Australia. It is a controlled substance in Finland, Denmark, Sweden and Czech Republic.
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WORK CAMP FIRST FOR THE WHEATBELT
LAUNCH
Hon Terry Redman MLA
Corrective Services
6-February-2012
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Launch of latest work camp for low-risk prisoners. Local communities to benefit from offender rehabilitation projects. A new work camp aimed at rehabilitating offenders through valuable community work will be launched this Wednesday in Western Australia's Wheatbelt region. Corrective Services Minister Terry Redman joined several community and Department of Corrective Services representatives at the official opening of the Wheatbelt Work Camp (WWC) in Dowerin. Prisoner work camps have been operating in WA for almost 13 years. In 2011, projects carried out by work camp prisoners saved taxpayers about $1million. The new Wheatbelt work camp in Dowerin will house 20 low-risk prisoners.
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NEW 'POST IT NOTE' AD CAMPAIGN TARGETS CITY / REGIONAL DRIVERS
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Hon Rob Johnson MLA
Police; Road Safety
4-February-2012
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Motorists reminded to stick to speed limit. Speed kills average of 64 Western Australians a year. Western Australian motorists are being urged to do whatever they can to remind themselves and their loved ones to stick to the speed limit in a new advertising campaign starting February 4th, 2012. Police and Road Safety Minister Rob Johnson said the 'Post it notes' campaign featured drivers being reminded by post it notes, either written by themselves or by family members, why they should not speed. Mr Johnson said while WA Police was doing everything it could to stop people from speeding, motorists needed to take responsibility for their own driving behaviour and make a conscious effort to obey the speed limit. In 2010, speeding was a factor in 24 per cent of fatal crashes, 12 per cent of hospitalisation crashes and nine per cent of other crashes attended by WA Police. Campaign uses TV, radio and outdoor advertising across metro and regional WA. Copy of the campaign materials and facts on speeding available at Office of Road Safety website: http://www.ors.wa.gov.au/
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iSCHOOL' IN AS STUDENTS HEAD BACK TO CLASS
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Hon Elizabeth Constable MLA
Education
Hon Colin Barnett MLA
Premier
1-February-2012
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261,987 students begin lessons at more than 770 public schools across WA. $1million new iPad initiative to spark literacy and numeracy learning. As almost 262,000 students begin lessons at public schools across Western Australia, some of the smallest children are set to use touch technology to boost their literacy and numeracy skills. Premier Colin Barnett and Education Minister Liz Constable announced a new Early Childhood iPad Initiative would provide nearly 900 iPads for Year 1 and 2 classes in 17 schools, and two mentor schools that have previously participated in a pilot iPad program. Speaking at West Beechboro Primary School, which will receive 55 iPads, Mr Barnett said Western Australia's achievements in the recent National Assessment Program - Literacy and Numeracy (NAPLAN) tests had resulted in the State receiving additional funding for learning programs. "Western Australian teachers are tailoring programs to suit individual students, right from the moment they arrive at pre-primary," Mr Barnett said. Four new public schools worth $56million open today. Malvern Springs and Aveley Primary Schools in Ellenbrook, Piara Waters Primary School north of Forrestdale and Meadow Springs Primary School north of Mandurah. 73 schools begin as Independent Public Schools, taking the total to 171 schools. West Beechboro Primary School is one of these. List of schools participating in the Early Childhood iPad Initiative: Aubin Grove Primary School (mentor school); Baler Primary School; Bullsbrook District High School; Campbell Primary School; Cassia Primary School; Currambine Primary School; Forrestfield Primary School; Grovelands Primary School; Hilton Primary School; Kalgoorlie Primary School; Maddington Primary School; Manjimup Primary School; Parkfield Primary School; Seaforth Primary School; Settlers Primary School (mentor school); South Hedland Primary School; Tranby Primary School; West Beechboro Primary School and; Yakamia Primary School.
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TOP YEAR 12 STUDENTS AWARDED BEAZLEY MEDALS
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Hon Elizabeth Constable MLA
Education
6-January-2012
Award Winners 2011
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Winners from Trinity College and Woodvale Secondary College. Nearly 13,200 year 12s sat examinations in four or more WACE courses. The winners of the 2011 Beazley Medals were announced by Education Minister Liz Constable. Calum Braham, 16, who attended Trinity College and Nicole Kerr, 17, a student at Woodvale Secondary College won the prestigious prizes. Calum was awarded the Beazley Medal: WACE (Western Australian Certificate of Education) for his academic achievement, and Nicole received the Beazley Medal: Vocational Education and Training for her excellence in vocational courses. Dr Constable said she was also pleased to see so many students graduating from high school. Last year, more than 21,000 students achieved the Western Australian Certificate of Education. General exhibitions are awarded to the 40 top students, who study five courses, with at least two each from the humanities/social sciences list and the mathematics/science list. To receive a Certificate of Distinction, a student must be in the top .05 per cent of candidates in the course. Certificates of Excellence are awarded to students who achieve at least 18 A grades during years 11 and 12. The Beazley Medal: WACE is awarded to the eligible student with the top Curriculum Council award score, based on the average of five scaled scores with at least two from humanities/social sciences and two from the mathematics/science/technology list. The Beazley Medal: VET is awarded to the eligible student who demonstrates the best results in a VET program.
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CONSTRUCTION STARTS ON NEW CHILDREN'S HOSPITAL
GROUND BREAKING CEREMONY/PRESS CONFERENCE
Hon Colin Barnett MLA
Premier; State Development
Hon Kim Hames MLA
Health
3-January-2012
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CONSTRUCTION STARTS ON NEW CHILDREN'S HOSPITAL
GROUND BREAKING CEREMONY/PRESS CONFERENCE
Hon Kim Hames MLA
Health
Hon Colin Barnett MLA
Premier; State Development
3-January-2012
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Premier breaks ground on new children's hospital site. Construction on track for completion in 2015. Set to become part of major health precinct for West Australians of all ages. Premier Colin Barnett and Health Minister Kim Hames officially broke ground on the construction site of Western Australia's $1.2billion new children's hospital on the grounds of Queen Elizabeth II Medical Centre site, Nedlands. The John Holland Group was awarded the Stage One Managing Contract to design and build the new facility. The Liberal-National Government has already set aside $575million towards the cost of the new children's hospital - now almost half pre-paid. The name of the new hospital has yet to be decided, however it will not be Princess Margaret Hospital for Children. Visit www.newchildrenshospitalproject.health.wa.gov.au/ for more information.
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MASSIVE WATER BOMBER ARRIVES IN WA
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Hon Troy Buswell MLA
Emergency Services
Hon Bill Marmion MLA
Environment
30-Dec-2011
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The Erickson Aircrane will be operational in WA this summer; State Govt's $12.8m spend to secure a strong aerial fleet for bushfire season; Western Australian fire crews will be well-supported during the fire season with the arrival of one of the world's biggest rotary water bombers - the Erickson Aircrane - which can drop up to 9,500 litres of water in a single load. Emergency Services Minister Troy Buswell said the State Government acted on the advice of the Fire and Emergency Services Authority (FESA) and the Department of Environment and Conservation (DEC) to secure use of the biggest rotary water bomber to be stationed in WA. "Firefighters face a challenging and demanding season and the aircrane is a welcome addition to the State's aerial fleet, supporting fire crews to protect local communities," Mr Buswell said. Environment Minister Bill Marmion welcomed the arrival of the Erickson Air-Crane and said it would play an important role in bushfire suppression. The aircrane, nicknamed 'Marty,' delivers almost 114,000 litres of foam mix, retardant or water an hour; WA's aerial fire fighting fleet includes the aircrane; two Type 1 water bombers (4,000 litres per load); four Helitacs (1,000 litres per load); eight fixed-wing water bombers; an aerial intelligence helicopter; two ignition and one air attack aircraft; and nine fire spotting planes; In 2010-11 the fleet released nearly four million litres of water and foam on bushfires throughout the State in nearly 2,800 drops; More information about how to make a bushfire survival plan and what to do if a bushfire occurs is available at www.fesa.wa.gov.au.
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