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1 month ago | 
abc.net.au | Emily Smith |Giulia Bertoglio
In a desert west of Uluru, Helmut Cooke tips a watering can over a row of baby pineapples. He moves to silverbeet, lettuces, carrots, potatoes and enormous green cabbages. All around him, red dirt sprouts green shoots. "This farm it has everything," he grins. "It's good to come work here."Mr Cooke and fellow Wanarn resident Lionel Fosterhave spent months transforming a dilapidated shed into a thriving outback garden.
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1 month ago | 
abc.net.au | Briana Shepherd |Giulia Bertoglio
Maryanne Undalghumen killed her cousin during a drunken argument in a Kununurra park. In November last year she was found not guilty of murdering her cousin, but guilty of her manslaughter. In a Perth court today Undalghumen was sentenced to eight years and six months in prison and she will be eligible for parole in 2030. WARNING: The following story contains details that may distress some readers.
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1 month ago | 
abc.net.au | Emily Smith |Giulia Bertoglio
Dreams of riches once brought the young and ambitious to Cheryl Cotterill's home town. Even a 23-year-old Herbert Hoover, who would go on to become the 31st president of the United States, had a brief stint in the region, managing one of the country's largest gold mines. But commodity downturns, world wars and fly-in, fly-out workforces eventually curbed its growth.
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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.
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Dec 26, 2024 | 
abc.net.au | Emily Smith |Giulia Bertoglio
Andy Sutcliffe's ringtone punctures the still outback air like a siren. The mechanic scrambles to answer, as the Mission Impossible theme song ricochets around his work yard. The tune is a fitting choice. An incoming call — which the self-proclaimed "Luddite" likes kept to a minimum — often means someone is stuck on the notorious Canning Stock Route, stranded on the "rough as guts" Anne Beadell Highway or broken down on the super-remote Connie Sue track.
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Dec 7, 2024 | 
abc.net.au | Giulia Bertoglio
Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander readers are advised this story contains the name and image of an Indigenous person who has died. The ABC has permission to use her name and image. Every morning Maureen Deegan passes through the same doorway her late mother Bonnie first entered many years ago to reconnect to her culture. Bonnie was part of the Stolen Generations and, at the age of four, she was forcibly removed from her family and home in Western Australia's north.
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Dec 4, 2024 | 
abc.net.au | Giulia Bertoglio
A man has been found guilty of the rape and robbery of a woman that shocked a remote town in far northern Western Australia. Warning: Readers are advised this story contains details that may cause distress. After a little more than two hours deliberating the District Court jury found Brian John Leering guilty of raping the woman, who cannot be identified for legal reasons, in Kununurra in October 2022. Leering, 22, had earlier admitted robbing the woman after the attack.
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Nov 26, 2024 | 
abc.net.au | Esse Deves |Alys Marshall |Giulia Bertoglio
Indigenous West Australian station workers and their families will share $144,375,000 in compensation for unpaid wages in a landmark Federal court judgement. The judgement was streamed online from a Melbourne courtroom on Wednesday, four weeks after Justice Bernard Murphy approved the $180 million class action settlement on October 30.
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Nov 16, 2024 | 
abc.net.au | Giulia Bertoglio
A new economic hub in the Kimberley town of Halls Creek is providing employment opportunities for women. The town's unemployment rate is almost five times the national average, but these residents want to start their own businesses to gain financial freedom. Organisers hope the community will eventually be able to take over the hub. Florence Long stretches her arm across a table covered in fabrics and art supplies to pick a colour for the clothes she's making.
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Nov 12, 2024 | 
abc.net.au | Giulia Bertoglio
A Supreme Court jury has been offered conflicting accounts of a woman's violent death in Western Australia's remote far north as a 10-day murder trial gets underway. Maryanne Undalghumen, 37, has pleaded not guilty to the alleged murder of Ms Unghango, whose first name is not used for cultural reasons, on July 15, 2023 in Kununurra, 3,000km north of Perth.
