Brianna Melville

1 month ago | abc.net.au | Bransen Gibson |Brianna Melville |Natasha Schapova

The Kalannie Bulldogs from WA's Wheatbelt have travelled to Victoria to play the Bannockburn Tigers in a pre-season friendly. About 100 people made the trip from WA to honour Jack Satchell, a former player from both teams. The clubs say there is talk of Bannockburn visiting the tiny town of Kalannie in the future. Two football teams from country towns on opposite sides of Australia have faced off in Victoria to honour a late mate who belonged to both clubs.

Jan 8, 2025 | abc.net.au | Giulia Bertoglio |Charlie McLean |Jessica Shackleton |Brianna Melville |Andrew Chounding

Prime Minister Anthony Albanese has made housing the centrepiece of his latest election pitch to Western Australia, pledging to "unlock" more than 1,000 homes across the state's regional communities. Touching down in Kununurra last night after a whistlestop tour of the Top End, Mr Albanese said the $200 million package would help ease the housing crunch across multiple WA cities as well as boost community infrastructure.

Jan 7, 2025 | abc.net.au | Keane Bourke |Lauren Smith |Brianna Melville

WA Labor's family and domestic violence prevention funding pledge includes $27.1 million to build 18 new women's refuge units. A re-elected Labor government would also introduce harsher penalties for breaching family violence restraining orders. Advocates have welcomed the funding but the Liberals, who have their own policy on restraining orders, say it won't address the problem.

Dec 23, 2024 | abc.net.au | Brianna Melville

A West Australian town 445 kilometres north of Perth was so hot on Sunday that residents' thermometers were breaking. Helen Ansell from Mullewa, 100km inland from Geraldton, discovered her thermometer had broken in the sun. "Yesterday it was something else. You couldn't even stand outside for two minutes, it was really unbearably hot," she said. "The thermometers I had only went up to 50 [degrees Celsius] , and they went right up to 50.

Dec 12, 2024 | abc.net.au | Brianna Melville

A man has died following an altercation in Geraldton on Thursday night. Police allege he sustained critical injuries at a house in Wonthella. Police say a woman aged in her 30s is assisting with inquiries. West Australian police are investigating the death of a man after an incident in Geraldton overnight. Police allege the man and a woman were involved in an altercation on Bayly Street in the suburb of Wonthella at about 6:40pm.