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Location of facilities related to the 2008 WA gas crisis. The Western Australian gas crisis was a major disruption to natural gas supply in Western Australia, caused by the rupture of a corroded pipeline and subsequent explosion at a processing plant on Varanus Island, off the state's north west coast on 3 June 2008.
New County Hotel is a three-star [1] hotel on County Place in central Perth. [2] The hotel had previously had a fire in August 2016. Set off by a malfunctioning dishwasher, guests were evacuated and suffered no injuries. The hotel is managed by the Edwin Hotels Group, which is owned by Rashid Hussain, a British businessman supposedly based in ...
Date Type Dead Injured Location and description 16 September 1972: Bombing 0 16 Sydney Yugoslav General Trade and Tourist Agency bombing - The bombing occurred in Haymarket, Sydney and injured sixteen people. [1]
The T. A. Gillespie Company Shell Loading Plant explosion, sometimes called the Morgan Munitions Depot explosion or similar titles, began at 7:36 pm EDT on Friday, October 4, 1918, at a World War I ammunition plant in the Morgan area of Sayreville in Middlesex County, New Jersey, United States. The initial explosion, generally believed to be ...
Qantas Flight 72 (QF72) was a scheduled flight from Singapore Changi Airport to Perth Airport by an Airbus A330.On 7 October 2008, the flight made an emergency landing at Learmonth Airport near the town of Exmouth, Western Australia, following an inflight accident that included a pair of sudden, uncommanded pitch-down manoeuvres that caused severe injuries—including fractures, lacerations ...
The Australian Nationalist Movement was based in Perth and influenced from the neo-Nazi National Action, and developed a specific racist ideology targeted against Asian migrants. The group orchestrated violent campaigns against Asian-owned businesses in Perth, primarily in the 1980s, culminating in a bombing attack in 2004. [169]
Record temperatures stoke bushfires in Perth, Western Australia; arson is suspected. (The West Australian) The bodies of six people killed on 24 December are found in a house in Carnation, Washington. (Seattle Times) Hours of torrential rains cause landslides killing at least 78 in the island of Java in Indonesia.
(1995) French Consulate - consulate bombed 17 June 1995, the Hon. French Consul Robert Pearce loses everything Sunday Times (Perth, W.A.), 18 June 1995, p. 1, Starling, Shane. (1997) When childhood ends : interview with Bosco Boscovich. Interview with bomber of the French Embassy in West Perth in June 1995 after his release from prison.