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Perth dancer Faith Ward has spoken to Today Show hosts Karl Stefanovic and Sarah Abo this morning, recounting how she found out she had been selected to join the world-famous Dallas Cowboys cheerleading squad.
The 22-year-old was one of six rookies selected to join the team of 36 to perform during the upcoming NFL season. She will also become part of the docuseries America’s Sweethearts: Dallas Cowboys Cheerleaders.
“I’m over the moon excited for this crazy journey that’s about to happen … 90,000 people are going to be watching us do Thunderstruck and I still can’t wrap my head around it, it’s insane,” she said.
Watch her full interview below:
There are a growing number of inmates sleeping on mattresses on the floors of WA’s prisons due to overcrowding.
Inspector of Custodial Services, Eamon Ryan spoke with Radio 6PR this morning, saying the population of those in prison on remand had “gone through the roof” in the past 18 months and the system was struggling to cope.
“Over the weekend, there were 300 men and women sleeping on mattresses on the floor, and what that means is a cell that was designed originally back in the 70s and 80s for one person, double bunked about 10 years ago, and now they have a mattress on the floor, so that’s someone sleeping on the floor with their head probably half a metre from the toilet bowl,” he said.
He said the solution was threefold: Better rehabilitation in prison, better community diversion programs and to build another prison.
Listen to his full interview below:
Pharmacists will soon be able to diagnose and treat everyday health conditions like skin conditions, ear infections and asthma without the need for a GP-issued prescription.
Health minister Meredith Hammat announced the pilot training program today, claiming it will ease the burden on GPs, and give people more direct access to primary health care.
“We do know it can be difficult for people to find an appropriate time to visit their GP, and it’s particularly a challenge during winter,” she said.
Applications will be open from today for pharmacists to undertake between six and 12 months training to complete a graduate certificate in Pharmacy Prescribing.
It is an expansion on an existing program which allows pharmacists to treat people for UTIs and renew oral contraceptive pill prescriptions without input from a GP.
More than 14,000 people have accessed UTI treatments directly from their pharmacist since the program began.
The Dockers have boosted their finals prospects with a thrilling one-point victory over Collingwood yesterday, but it came at a cost, with Matthew Johnson limping from the ground in the fourth quarter after rolling his ankle awkwardly during a marking contest.
The midfielder arrived back in Perth last night on crutches with a moonboot on his lower left leg.
Fremantle coach Justin Longmuir said the 22-year-old was sore following the injury.
“He felt a crack so he’s on crutches. [It’s] not a good sign, but we don’t want to go too early with it,” he said.
“A crunching sound can mean a bit, it can mean a break, or it can mean just to give that ankle a real wrench, so it’s not looking great for him.”
The family of convicted drug smuggler Donna Nelson will today arrive in Japan to support the Perth grandmother through her appeal.
The 59-year-old former federal Greens candidate was jailed for six years in December after being found guilty of smuggling two kilograms of methamphetamine into a Japanese airport.
Nelson claimed she was the victim of a Nigerian love scandal, and that her partner tricked her into carrying a suitcase that she didn’t know had drugs inside.
The mother-of-five will front the Japanese High Court this week to appeal her conviction and argue that new evidence should be allowed to be heard.
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Making headlines today, rescued backpacker Carolina Wilga has bid farewell to Perth, with German media confirming she arrived back in the country at the weekend and was escorted to a local hospital in her home town.
Before her departure, the 26-year-old, in a since deleted Instagram post, captioned a series of photos as “the great goodbye to Perth” and included a photo of herself with friends at Cottesloe Beach.
The backpacker managed to evade the media who were at Perth Airport hoping to catch a glimpse of her before she left.
Meanwhile, for 18 months motorists heading into the city from West Perth have been denied access to the right lane on the Malcolm Street bridge for what has seemed like an abandoned project to upgrade its road barriers.
Now we can reveal why the project will likely take as long as the Boorloo bridge to complete and why workers have been scarce at the site since the start of the year.
And in case you missed it, the Fremantle Dockers had a thrilling win against top of the ladder Collingwood yesterday, storming home in the last quarter to snatch victory by one point.
You can reminisce on the win here.
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