Crown Perth to clamp down on electronic gaming machines
Racing and Gaming minister Paul Papalia has just announced new restrictions on people playing on the electronic gaming machines at Crown Perth casino.
From December, anyone who wants to play on the machines will have to be registered with a valid playing card. The cards have a weekly money limit of $300 and a daily time limit of 12 hours, with mandatory breaks every three hours.
Customers can also set their own money and time limits if they prefer.
The changes address several of the recommendations from the Royal Commission into Perth Casino in 2022.
The report found Crown had facilitated money laundering, failed to investigate suspicions of money laundering, permitted junkets with links to criminals to operate at the casino and failed to minimise gambling-related harm caused by electronic gaming machines.
Palmyra man charged over ‘fake police search warrant burglary’
WA Police have charged a man for allegedly impersonating a police officer and robbing a Carlisle house after being let in by the residents, who were told he had a search warrant.
Detectives last week appealed to the public to identify two men, who stole cash and jewellery from the house on August 29.
Items stolen during the burglary.Credit: WA Police
A 46-year-old man from Palmyra has since been arrested and is due to appear in Perth Magistrate’s Court this morning.
He is charged with a string of offences including aggravated home burglary, stealing more than $10,000, deprivation of liberty, property laundering, unlawfully possessing a firearm and impersonating a public officer.
The pair is accused of quietly robbing the house while undertaking a fake search warrant, which lasted about 40 minutes. The residents became suspicious and contacted police after they left.
One of the rings stolen from the home has been recovered, but the rest of the stolen jewellery remains outstanding.
One third of Perth suburbs now part of the ‘$1 million club’
Another 20 Perth suburbs have joined the million-dollar club, with the median house price now tipping seven-figures for more than one third of suburbs in the metropolitan area.
According to the Cotality report, released today, the once prestigious million-dollar price tag is becoming more and more common with 129 of Perth’s 350 suburbs now sporting the title.
129 Perth suburbs now have a median house price of more than $1,000,000.
In Perth, the new suburbs to join the list included Bayswater, Maylands, Noranda, Padbury, Canning Vale, Willagee, North Lake, East Victoria Park, Jarrahdale and Quinns Rocks.
Units in Swanbourne have also joined the club.
In regional WA, the number of million-dollar suburbs doubled from six to 12, with Margaret River and Cowaramup among the new entrants.
Tip Top bakery blaze forces workers to flee
To overnight news now and bakery workers in the middle of their shift have had to flee after a fire broke out at the Tip Top factory in Canning Vale.
The blaze was first reported at 12.30am when an oven caught alight plastic sheeting, which then went up in flames.
It took firefighters several hours to bring the blaze under control.Credit: 9 News Perth
Firefighting crews worked for several hours to bring the fire under control, leaving around 4am this morning.
No workers were injured, but it is unclear if baking with resume today.
The cause of the fire has been listed as accidental.
Across the nation and around the world
Here’s what’s making news across the country and around the world:
Prime Minister Anthony Albanese and Australia’s US ambassador, Kevin Rudd, arrive for a breakfast meeting with members of the Friends of Australia Caucus in Washington on Tuesday.Credit: AAPIMAGE
- The Paris prosecutor said the crown jewels stolen in a dramatic weekend Louvre heist were worth an estimated €88 million ($157 million), but that the monetary estimate doesn’t include their historical value to France.
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Good morning readers, and welcome to our live news blog for Wednesday, October 22.
Making headlines today a senior member of Western Australia’s biggest Chinese association has raised concerns about the process behind the construction of a $12 million taxpayer-funded hall in Bentley.
Artists’ impression of the Chung Wah Bentley Community Centre.Credit: Chung Wah
Chung Wah vice president Michael Lee is vying to become president of the influential, 115-year-old organisation for the next two years ahead of its executive committee membership vote this weekend.
His election platform, sent to this masthead, raises concerns about Chung Wah’s proposed community centre on Nyamup Way, Bentley, which has received $12.75 million of state and federal funding to date.
Meanwhile, the family of a woman missing from Perth’s western suburbs have put up a $100,000 reward for any information that could lead them to the mother-of-three.
Michelle Leahy, 50, was last seen leaving Hollywood Private Hospital in Nedlands around 3pm on Thursday afternoon.
And in an opinion piece on motherhood, WA reporter Carla Hildebrandt explains the burnout she never saw coming after trying to balance raising a baby with returning to work.
Stay with us as we bring you the news of the day, as it happens here in WA.
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