WA: Main stories in today's Perth newspapers

AAP General News (Australia)
08-23-2007
WA: Main stories in today's Perth newspapers

PERTH, Aug 23 AAP - The main stories in today's Perth West Australian:

Page 1: WA Labor's key election promise to fix the health system has been shattered
by revelations that the Health Department has failed to meet a raft of crucial performance
targets, many relating to basic services. Murdered Perth woman Corryn Rayney had told
her friends of a heated confrontation with a man hours before she was killed, and had
forwarded a series of threatening emails she had received over recent months.

Page 3: Independent fuel retailers competing with the big chains have appealed to the
Australian Competition and Consumer Commission to come to their rescue.

Page 4: US President George W Bush was set to deliver a defence of his Iraq strategy
that compared the war on terrorism to ideological struggles in Vietnam.

World: Rio Tinto and other Australian companies operating in Zimbabwe are under threat
of virtual nationalisation under a bill being considered by the government of President
Robert Mugabe. A former executive of Garuda airlines has implicated Indonesia's intelligence
agency in the murder of the country's most prominent rights activist, Munir Said Thalib,
in 2004.

Finance: BHP Billiton revealed plans to spend $87.5 billion on new projects and expansions
over the next decade, while handing down another Australian record annual profit.

Sport: Kangaroos champion Wayne Carey has declared Daniel Kerr's potentially season-ending
finger surgery as the terminal blow to West Coast Eagles premiership hopes.

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