More police can't halt the meth tide, and won't help Mandurah: O’Callaghan

[WA Today]( --------------------------------------------------------------- Saturday, 3rd August, 2019 PM News Update [People gathered in Mandurah on Saturday morning. ]( [More police can't halt the meth tide, and won't help Mandurah: O'Callaghan]( BY Emma Young "There's been a taskforce, more than 100 police officers to do this, and since they've started they haven't made one iota of impact on the meth usage rates." --------------------------------------------------------------- Top stories [WA's latest sporting import sees a cool change coming in Australia]( Jake Gilmour, the son of NHL great Doug Gilmour, is taking to the ice for the Perth Thunder, WA's only competitor in the national, nine-team strong, Australian Ice Hockey League. [Jake Gilmour (No.22) is the Perth Thunder's latest recruit. ]( --------------------------------------------------------------- [New car park? How about more beds for Peel Health Campus, say the Libs]( Liberal MPs from the Peel region say a Mandurah hospital needs more beds to handle explosive population growth expected over the next few years. [Canning MP Andrew Hastie and state Dawesville MP Zak Kirkup outside Peel Health Campus.]( --------------------------------------------------------------- [Lloyd Rayney risks being 'struck off' as lawyer after failed appeal]( "He's presently not able to practise," Mr Bennett told reporters outside the WA Supreme Court on Friday. [Lloyd Rayney.]( --------------------------------------------------------------- [Rudd declares he is 'delighted' by investigation into Crown casino]( The former PM says he is thrilled by investigations into Crown casino, which he says hired the "faceless" Labor men who ended his prime ministership. [Former Prime Minister Kevin Rudd has welcomed the investigation into Crown casino.]( --------------------------------------------------------------- [Anti-doping bodies have been throwing the book at Ligandrol positives]( Recent case files for positive tests involving SARM LGD-4033, the substance found in swimmer Shayna Jack's samples, make grim reading for her legal team. [Lawyer Paul Horvath and swimmer Shayna Jack have a tough ask to argue for a reduced penalty.]( --------------------------------------------------------------- [Which countries still have the death penalty?]( Many of the world's nations still have the death penalty, so who's doing the executing and how? [Death-penalty chamber chairs before their removal from San Quentin State Prison in California, where a moratorium was ...]( --------------------------------------------------------------- [Britain is on the brink, and it's an exciting place to be Australian]( As loyal subjects of the Crown, we can expect our rightful status in the mother country to be restored after Brexit. [A view of St Ives from Porthminster Beach in Cornwall.]( --------------------------------------------------------------- --------------------------------------------------------------- We've sent you this email because your email address {EMAIL} has been registered for WA Today membership. You can [unsubscribe]( from this email at any time. At WA Today, we'll never ask for your personal or credit card information via email. If you receive a suspicious email claiming to offer WA Today services in exchange for your details, please delete it. --------------------------------------------------------------- [Conditions of use]( [Privacy policy]( Copyright © 2019 Fairfax Media Limited 1 Darling Island Rd Pyrmont NSW 2009 Australia