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Detectives have launched a fresh search of hundreds of mine shafts in Western Australia’s outback in their mission to find Jennie Kehlet.
The search of 300 mine shafts is the cold case team’s eighth trip to the Goldfields this year, and they’ve brought with them a new tool to explore the bottom of the mine shafts.
Jennie and her husband Ray Kehlet were prospecting in the Goldfields with another man, Graham Milne, in 2015 when the couple disappeared.
Ray’s body was found down a mine shaft, but Jennie remains missing a decade on.
Police say the couple’s belongings were all accounted for, save for three items: a pair of boots, gloves, and a quad bike key.
As gold mining companies begin to move in on the area with plans to overturn the land, it’s a race against time to search as many shafts as possible.
On Wednesday, police revealed a shaft known as the “water shaft”, located about 200 metres from where Ray’s body was found, was an area of interest.
“Even though these people have been missing for 10 years, it’s never put to a resolution until such time as we can categorically say we’ve done everything possible,” said Detective Sergeant Peter Sloan.
A Fremantle cafe strip icon his hit the market, with the enduringly popular Timezone arcade up for sale.
The arcade has been a part of the port city’s famed central street for more than four decades, and has now been listed by Cushman & Wakefield, which described Timezone as a “cornerstone of WA’s leisure landscape” in the pitch to potential buyers.
The new owners could expect a net income of about $451,134 a year from the “blue-chip generational tenant”.
Timezone still has four years, four months remaining on its current seven-year lease, but the agents noted the site has “future multi-level development potential”.
Expressions of interest for the Timezone building close on October 17.
Police are on Rottnest Island, investigating allegations a child has been assaulted.
9News Perth reported the alleged incident, understood to involve a young girl, took place on Tuesday.
A WA Police spokeswoman said child abuse squad detectives were investigating the report.
“The investigation is being conducted with the assistance of partner agencies and remains ongoing,” she said.
We’ll bring you more on this story as it comes to light.
Here’s what is making headlines elsewhere today.
Good morning readers, and welcome to our live news blog for Thursday, September 25.
Making headlines today is the revelation that the GST deal implemented by the Morrison government that ensured a 75-cent floor for every state – devised largely to placate Western Australia – would be examined by the Productivity Commission.
WA Treasurer Rita Saffioti is confident the deal will withstand scrutiny – but she’s rallying the troops anyway.
“I’m pretty I’m very confident that the Albanese government understands WA and backs WA, but we’re going to make sure that that pressure that’s coming from the other states is diminished,” she said on Wednesday.
WA will also launch an advertising blitz in east coast newspapers, presenting WA’s case outside the state.
Staying with politics, and outspoken WA frontbencher Andrew Hastie claims Australians feel like “strangers in our own home”, saying the post-pandemic influx of migrants was creating a housing crisis that could keep the Liberals in exile for years if the party did not tackle it.
Hastie put a spotlight on migrant-driven demand in an Instagram post on Wednesday, making it the latest policy issue on which he has put forward populist talking points that differ from those of Opposition Leader Sussan Ley.
And finally, students at Curtin University’s accommodation are facing a rent hike.
With cost-of-living spiralling out of control, and the ordinary rental market already wildly expensive, the Student Guild says the latest increases are “indefensible”.
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