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1 month ago | 
abc.net.au | Ruby Littler |Mya Kordic
A support service for victims of sexual assault in Western Australia's north says the community should be deeply concerned by two alleged public attacks in one of the Kimberley's main towns. Men have been arrested and charged in connection with both alleged attacks, with both due to face court again in coming weeks. Both the unconnected attacks were reported in Broome, 2,000 kilometres north of Perth, in the past seven days.
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Feb 15, 2025 | 
abc.net.au | Mya Kordic |Michelle Stanley |Kyle Pauletto |Gareth McKnight |Andrew Chounding
Displaced residents in Western Australia's north face a wait to be returned to their communities after the impact of Cyclone Zelia, with emergency services prioritising the effort to get evacuated people back to their homes. The Tropical Cyclone crossed the Pilbara coast near De Grey on Friday afternoon at category-four intensity, causing damage to towns and pastoral stations.
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Jan 21, 2025 | 
abc.net.au | Mya Kordic |Bridget McArthur
Temperature records were broken in the Midwest, Perth and South West on Monday. Tropical Cyclone Sean has caused heavy rainfall for much of northern WA, resulting in a sinkhole. The extreme heat is set to continue for most of the week. Extreme weather across much of Western Australia over the past two days has seen temperature records smashed, power outages and the emergence of a sinkhole in the Pilbara after heavy flooding.
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Jan 8, 2025 | 
abc.net.au | Gareth McKnight |Mya Kordic
A man has been allegedly attacked with an axe, eight people have been arrested and additional police have been deployed after a violent 24 hours in Western Australia's far north. Police said a 27-year-old man suffered serious injuries after he was allegedly attacked by six people in the Kimberley town of Halls Creek, with one of the assailants allegedly striking the victim with an axe.
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Dec 13, 2024 | 
abc.net.au | Mya Kordic
The Western Australian government is offering a $500,000 reward to help solve long-term missing persons cases. It is the first time in the state’s history that a reward has been offered in long-term missing persons cases. In recent years, six Indigenous men from communities in the state’s north have disappeared. In September, the families of the men gathered for a rally at Parliament House in Perth, demanding more police resourcing to try and locate them.
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Nov 24, 2024 | 
abc.net.au | Mya Kordic
A West Australian magistrate says she holds "significant concerns" for an 11-year-old boy previously labelled the "state's most vulnerable child" who is facing new criminal charges in Perth, away from his regional home. Court transcripts obtained by the ABC outline the boy's hearing on November 4 in the Perth Children's Court after he was remanded in custody.
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Nov 21, 2024 | 
rnz.co.nz | Gareth McKnight |Rosanne Maloney |Mya Kordic |Tabarak Al Jrood
By Gareth McKnight, Rosanne Maloney, Mya Kordic and Tabarak Al Jrood A snake was found on a plane before it took off from the West Australian town of Broome on Thursday morning. In bizarre scenes, Disney TV personality Andre Rerekura was the passenger who took the non-venomous snake off the aircraft before it embarked for Perth. The airline said the flight took off as planned following a 20 minute delay.
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Nov 21, 2024 | 
abc.net.au | Gareth McKnight |Rosanne Maloney |Mya Kordic
A snake was found on a plane before it took off from the West Australian town of Broome on Thursday morning. In bizarre scenes, TV personality Andre Rerekura was the passenger who took the snake off the aircraft before it embarked for Perth. The airline said the flight took off as planned following a 20 minute delay. In scenes reminiscent of a Hollywood blockbuster, a television personality has helped wrangle a stowaway snake on a plane in Western Australia’s north.
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Nov 19, 2024 | 
abc.net.au | Mya Kordic
A local man was attacked by a saltwater crocodile while spearfishing off WA's remote Kimberley coast over the weekend. Local Bardi Jawi rangers say the man punched the reptile to escape. The man is recovering from the incident and local rangers are urging people to be vigilant in the Kimberley. A Kimberley man attacked by a saltwater crocodile in Western Australia's far north has told local rangers he punched the reptile in the nose to escape.
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Nov 8, 2024 | 
abc.net.au | Mya Kordic |Katrina Tap
More than 300 people have faced legal action from the Australian Electoral Commission after they failed to vote in the Voice to Parliament referendum, with WA recording the highest number of matters taken to court. The 2023 Voice to Parliament referendum set out to establish a permanent advisory body of Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander people and was ultimately unsuccessful.
