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Ted O'Connor

Kununurra

ABC reporter/producer

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  • 5 days ago | abc.net.au | Ted O'Connor

    From the air, it is easy to see a green strip separating a river and a dry paddock. The 50-metre-wide buffer along the bank is known as the riparian zone. This one was man-made more than 20 years ago to improve the health of the Hopkins River. The system winds almost 300 kilometres through dairy, sheep, cattle and cropping country in south-west Victoria, from near Ararat to Warrnambool.

  • Feb 26, 2025 | abc.net.au | Ted O'Connor

    Andrew Patterson's binoculars jolt as a fluffy grey ball on spindly long legs rushes out from behind a clump of dry seaweed. "Oh there's a chick, I can see a chick," he says. He spots one, then two, newly hatched hooded plover chicks, darting about the sand on Port Fairy's East Beach in south-west Victoria. "It's always exciting to see the new ones," he says. But what's interesting to him is where the parents have placed the nest, perched on a ledge, about a metre up the dune face.

  • Feb 26, 2025 | abc.net.au | Ted O'Connor

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  • Oct 7, 2024 | abc.net.au | Ted O'Connor

    A project to seal a 313km stretch of a remote highway in Western Australia has exceeded its Indigenous employment target of 30 per cent. The Tanami Road sealing project began two years' ago, and its more than 100-person workforce is now 50 per cent Indigenous.

  • Oct 7, 2024 | abc.net.au | Ted O'Connor

    On a construction site in Western Australia's remote far north, loader driver Kevin Long stands proud as he inspires a group of young Aboriginal jobseekers. "I wanted more in my life. So I'm chasing my dream and I'm going to keep going for it in the future," he said.

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RT @SamTomlin539: "I feel good, man. I feel proud of myself and proud of my boys." The long-awaited sealing of the Tanami Road is providin…

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RT @SamTomlin539: "A Kununurra magistrate found the boy guilty of the offences after Monday's proceedings focused on whether he knew what h…

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24 Jun 24

Saltwater crocodiles in upper Ord River raise concerns for Kununurra residents https://t.co/w3GopHsDjc