WA: Main stories in today's Perth newspaper

AAP General News (Australia)
08-18-2008
WA: Main stories in today's Perth newspaper

PERTH, August 18 AAP - The main stories in today's The West Australian:

Page 1: Police Commissioner Karl O'Callaghan yesterday refused to justify a police
decision to sit for 12 years on footage of a man seen talking to Claremont serial killer
victim Jane Rimmer, as it emerged that detectives investigating the murders have had another
suspect under covert surveillance for the past year. WA's contentious outcomes-based education
system has re-emerged as an election issue with a leading education group demanding the
Labor and Liberal parties abolish it from kindergarten to year 10. Pic: Women's medley
relay team win gold.

Page 3: Melbourne scientists have developed a drug that may prevent a condition responsible
for up to 45 per cent of all deaths in the western world.

Page 5: The Liberal party will heed a call from the parents of murdered eight-year-old
Sofia Rodriguez-Urrutia-Shu by ensuring that paedophiles are named on a public sex offender
register if it wins government.

World: A deadline set for Pakistan's coalition government for President Pervez Musharraf
to step down ticked away over the weekend, leaving him facing impeachment proceedings
next week.

Finance: The administrators of Michael Kiernan's collapsed producer Monarch Gold Mining
have thrown into doubt territory Resources' hope of being treated as a secured creditor
because of an administrative breach.

Sport: Grant Hackett's quest for sporting immortality was thwarted yesterday by a drug
cheat in what could be the dual Olympic 1500m freestyle champion's final swim for Australia.

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