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Good morning readers, and welcome to our live news blog for Tuesday, July 29.
Making headlines today, a community group lobbying for an end to plans for a $217 million racetrack and amphitheatre on the Burswood peninsula has hit back at claims the development would be a boon to the local economy, pointing to similar developments in other states they say proved the opposite.
An artist impression of the Perth street circuit and amphitheatre on the Burswood peninsula.
“As the Cook government moves to invest hundreds of millions of dollars to host a V8 Supercars event in Burswood Park, we must learn from the hard lessons of other cities,” Save Burswood Park Alliance co-chair Robin Harvey said.
Meanwhile, the trial of accused fraudster Chris Marco continues today in the Supreme Court of Western Australia.
He is accused of creating an “entire make-believe” suite of invite-only investment opportunities to defraud his clients of $36.5 million.
Prosecutor Steven Whybrow, acting for the Commonwealth, told the court the alleged offending happened over eight years between 2010 and 2018.
