26 Jul 07 | BY DAY Mark Balenzuela is known as Constable. Off duty, he’s coach. Coach, that is, to the Australian Women’s Country Water Polo Team with whom he will be travelling to Singapore on Monday.

26 Jul 07 | CELEBRATIONS will be the order of the day when the world’s ultimate outdoor character-building youth organisation turns 100. Parties are planned countrywide as the Scout Association of Australia gears up to pay tribute to its history.

26 Jul 07 | TO DEMYSTIFY and simplify could well have been the mantras last week when guests sat in on lectures in laparoscopy (key-hole surgery) with Doctor Ludwig Plaumann and anatomy with Professor Paul McMenamin.

26 Jul 07 | JOHN Howard paid a fleeting, fly-in fly-out visit to Kalgoorlie-Boulder on Monday, mustering local support for the Liberal Party as he went.

26 Jul 07 | PRIME Minister John Howard officially opened the state-of-the-art Rural Clinical School of WA in Kalgoorlie-Boulder on Monday morning.