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2 weeks ago | 
nature.com | Molly Went |Charlie Mills |Amit Sud |James Allan |Richard S. Houlston
AbstractAlthough treatment options for B-cell malignancies have expanded, many patients continue to face limited response rates, highlighting an urgent need for new therapeutic targets.
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Jan 20, 2025 | 
abc.net.au | Charlie Mills |Rosemary Murphy |Verity Gorman |Alistair Bates
Residents along Western Australia's Pilbara coast are celebrating after the passage of Tropical Cyclone Sean left behind a transformed landscape. The system peaked at category four late on Monday afternoon and has continued to track away from the WA coast in the hours since. With emergency warnings being downgraded and only minor damage and flooding reported, locals have largely welcomed the relief from the hot and steamy conditions.
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Jan 15, 2025 | 
abc.net.au | Charlie Mills
A Pilbara local who stumbled upon a massive fish kill has described the "devastating, eerie" sight of thousands of dead fish scattered across a popular beach. More than 30,000 fish were found dead at Gnoorea Beach, about 1,500 kilometres north of Perth, late last week. The mass kill was reported by the Department of Primary Industries and Regional Development (DPIRD) on Tuesday, with a large-scale investigation and clean-up now underway.
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Jan 14, 2025 | 
abc.net.au | Charlie Mills
Fisheries officials are investigating the deaths of around 30,000 fish, which have been found along Western Australia's Pilbara coast. Officers from the Department of Primary Industries and Regional Development (DPIRD) discovered the fish kill incident last week on Gnoorea Beach, around 1,500 kilometres north of Perth. The deceased fish were found along a nine-kilometre stretch of shoreline slightly south of a popular campground at Gnoorea Point.
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Jan 6, 2025 | 
abc.net.au | Charlie Mills
Gas giant Santos will pay just under $20,000 in penalties for its role in an oil spill off Western Australia's Pilbara coastline. About 25,000 litres of oil condensate was released into the Indian Ocean when one of the company's flexible oil pipelines ruptured off the Pilbara coast in March 2022.
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Dec 22, 2024 | 
abc.net.au | Charlie Mills |Michelle Stanley
Ongoing workforce challenges impacting WA's health sector means the system is now "reliant" on locums and agency staff, with short-term postings advertised at upwards of $3,000 a day. The WA Country Health Service has partially attributed its budget blowout of $353 million in its 2023–24 annual report to "increasing reliance on high-cost agency and locum staff".
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Dec 18, 2024 | 
abc.net.au | Charlie Mills
A coastal town in Western Australia's north has doubled its representation in the AFLW after local Indi Strom was drafted by the Fremantle Dockers. She will join her older sister, reigning all-Australian ruck and Fremantle best and fairest Mim Strom. Indi Strom, who was selected at pick 51 by the Dockers at Monday night's AFLW draft, said she was still surprised. "It's pretty shocking and overwhelming, but in the best way possible," she said.
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Dec 16, 2024 | 
abc.net.au | Charlie Mills
Fatigue caused by "unusual" circumstances involving spider bites contributed to a train crash in Western Australia's north earlier this year, the federal transport safety watchdog has found. The Australian Transport Safety Bureau (ATSB) has today released its report into a "low speed" crash at BHP's Finucane Island iron ore facility, near Port Hedland, about 1,600 kilometres north of Perth. The collision occurred early on March 2, when two trains carrying iron ore were waiting to be unloaded.
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Dec 15, 2024 | 
abc.net.au | Jessica Shackleton |Charlie Mills |Michelle Stanley
More than 100mm of rain has brought isolated flooding to the Pilbara town of Marble Bar. At least three people have been rescued from floodwater in the past week. Heavy rain is set to continue this week. A town which prides itself on being Australia's hottest has become one of the wettest with heavy rainfall cutting car access. More than 100 millimetres of rain has fallen in parts of WA's Pilbara region in the past week.
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Dec 9, 2024 | 
abc.net.au | Charlie Mills
Authorities are urging residents and visitors in one of WA's premier tourist towns to be careful around the water after three saltwater crocodile sightings in the space of days. Exmouth, around 1,230km north of Perth, has seen an upswing in crocodile activity in recent months, with local calls growing for increased monitoring and the deployment of traps. The town is well outside the reptiles' normal range, the tropical waters of Australia's far north.
