Kate Forrester

3 weeks 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.

2 months ago | 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.

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.

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.

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.