Colin Barnett is the leader of the Western Australian Liberal Party, Member for Cottesloe and Premier of Western Australia. In the past he has been head of the Western Australian Chamber of Commerce and Industry and a lecturer in economics at Curtin University.
Since entering parliament in 1990 he has held a number of positions including [...]

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We’re half way through December and we’ve already had half a Christmas.
My side of the family won’t be able to get together on Christmas Day so we had our own Christmas lunch yesterday. We talked, we ate, we exchanged gifts. It was a great afternoon.
Splitting Christmas also means that we won’t have to dash between [...]

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Sixteen years ago today I said, “I do.”
In January 1992 I met the most wonderful woman I’ve ever known and in December of the same year I watched her walk down the aisle and promise to love me for life.
I love Pauline more and more as each year passes.
It’s hard to believe that I could [...]

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So how did that happen?
Our little girl, the one who I’m sure was only born a few months back, is at a high school orientation day today. She’s graduating primary school and moving into year 8 next year.
Emily has grown into a beautiful, clever, intelligent young woman. It seems like just yesterday we were enrolling [...]

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I was reading this story at News.com.au this morning about a mother who had to drop her toddler ten metres from a fairground ride that had malfunctioned. Scary stuff.
Sherri Pinkerton and her daughter Gracie got stuck on the Crazy Bus ride at the fair in Port Orange, Florida, when it suddenly restarted as they were [...]

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Author Mem Fox has opened up a controversial debate by claiming that childcare for very young children is child abuse.
According to this article at News.com.au, Mem believes that society will look back on the trend of allowing babies only a few weeks old to be put into childcare and wonder, “How could we have allowed [...]

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