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2 weeks ago | 
abc.net.au | Joanna Prendergast |Kate Forrester
The Environment Minister Murray Watt has announced new protections excluding commercial fishers from an additional six per cent of Australia's oceans. The move, along with scenes on global fishing practices from Sir David Attenborough's new documentary Ocean, has angered the WA Fishing Industry Council. The council has warned Australian shoppers will bear the cost of the new protections, but the minister says it will guarantee the long-term security of the fishing industry.
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3 weeks ago | 
abc.net.au | Kate Forrester |Jon Daly
Processors published supply agreements for the 2025-26 financial year earlier this week, as part of the Dairy Industry Code of Conduct. WAFarmers Dairy Council president says stagnant farmgate prices have left farmers disillusioned. A South West dairy farmer is asking processors to review their offers after a processor conceded to a 2-cent-per-litre increase on its original price.
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4 weeks ago | 
abc.net.au | Kate Forrester
Agritourism is helping farmers in southern Western Australia future-proof their businesses and legacies amid predictions the sector will be worth close to $19 billion in five years.
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1 month ago | 
abc.net.au | Megan Hughes |Joshua Becker |Kate Forrester
The Australian Fashion Council has launched a national strategy to bring garment manufacturing back to Australia. Escalating trade tensions between China and the United States have highlighted Australia's supply chain vulnerability. Six consultation sessions will be held before a final report is delivered late this year. During Australian Fashion Week last week, models walked the runway clothed by home-grown designers, but while the designs were local, the outfits themselves were made overseas.
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Mar 20, 2025 | 
abc.net.au | Samantha Goerling |Kate Forrester |Paul Cook
Western Australia's regional voters have showed they prefer the National Party as the state's opposition, with two of its candidates claiming victory in the latest results. The seats of Albany and Warren-Blackwood had been held by WA Labor before the March 8 state election. Albany had been a Labor seat for 21 years and was last held by the Nationals (then the Country Party) 69 years ago. The Nationals reclaimed Warren-Blackwood after it was lost in the Mark McGowan "red wave" in 2021.
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Mar 1, 2025 | 
abc.net.au | Bridget McArthur |Kate Forrester
In a year when West Australian voters will go to the polls twice, no town in the state represents the intersection of federal and state issues quite as much as Collie. The coal mining town, 200 kilometres south of Perth, sits at the centre of WA's main electricity grid. It faces a duelling pitch for its future.
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Feb 7, 2025 | 
abc.net.au | Kate Forrester |Belinda Varischetti
Small-scale meat producers in southern Western Australia say they are delighted but puzzled by a key butchering service's move to keep slaughtering and processing their stock. For months the Dardanup Butchering Company (DBC) had planned to cease offering so-called "service kills" for small-scale and independent producers. "Service killing" is the practice of slaughtering and processing livestock on behalf of a farmer who retains ownership over the meat.
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Jan 16, 2025 | 
abc.net.au | Kate Forrester
In 1991, two Albany locals drove to a farm on the outskirts of the city, 400 kilometres south of Perth, for a 21st birthday. In the boot of their 1964 Beetle were two guitars and a small speaker. The sisters went on to become members of one of Australia's most-loved bands, The Waifs. Donna and Vikki Simpson were in their early days of performing together, picking up gigs and trying to make a name for themselves, when they played that birthday show.
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Jan 15, 2025 | 
abc.net.au | Andrew Williams |Kate Forrester
A boy has been flown to Perth in a critical condition after an incident in Western Australia's largest regional city. Paramedics were called to the scene in the Bunbury CBD just after 10:30am on Wednesday. Locals have told the ABC a decommissioned parking machine fell on top of the child, but the exact cause of his injuries are yet to be confirmed.
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Jan 11, 2025 | 
abc.net.au | Kate Forrester |Mark Bennett
A program that trains working dogs and auctions them off to raise much-needed money for children's health is set to expand after a record-breaking first year. Kelpies for Kids pairs working dogs with a trainer before the animals are auctioned, with money raised going towards landmark WA fundraiser Telethon. Starting last year, the program brings together each pup with one of the "Telethon kids", who are the face of fundraising efforts. The inaugural program raised more than $50,000.
