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Connected under the Milky Way: new exhibition shares Indigenous astronomical knowledge from Australia to South Africa

The Yamaji-Wajarri people studied the wide-open skies of their country for millennia before being host to one of the world’s largest radio telescopes

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Icing on the funding cake: Aussie arts' pitch for cash

The first national crowdfunding day for artists is being run by Creative Australia, but does the pitch for donations highlight a lack of government support?

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Families unite at site of massacre in Western Australia: ‘Something spoke through me’

More than 170 years after shocking bloodshed at Bootenal Springs, there is at last a reckoning

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WA police who shot dead Aboriginal woman did not make meaningful attempts to de-escalate, coroner finds

Brent Wyndham – who was acquitted of murder and manslaughter – fired on JC within 17 seconds of exiting his vehicle in Geraldton, inquest ruling says

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Stan’s Invisible Boys carries the tradition of real, gritty Aussie teen drama, while smashing it into something new

Stan’s new series Invisible Boys follows four young gay men as they understand and explore their identities while living in Geraldton, a regional town in Western Australia.

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Genius or charlatan? The strange tale of a 19th-century polymath who left a trail of controversy across colonial Australia

About 20 minutes’ drive north of Geraldton, on Australia’s west coast, lies a hill named Mount Sommer. The little peak is one of the few relics left behind by the enigmatic nineteenth-century polymath Dr Ferdinand von Sommer, Western Australia’s first government geologist.

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Mining hubs lead regional property price rise

Affordability and lifestyle choices continue to drive up property prices in regional Australia, but there are signs the heat is coming out of the market.

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Friday essay: ‘I claimed our data’ – confronting the colonial archive is ‘intense Aboriginal love’ in action

This is my data. And this is my sovereign right. No more whitewashing. Let Truth be told. — Data Sovereignty Words I am a Wajarri, Badimaya and Wilunyu woman from the Yamaji Nation who has grown up on country with family in the small rural inland community of Mullewa, in…

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Probe into police altercation with Indigenous elder

The foster mother of an Indigenous woman whose police shooting death is under coronial investigation has been injured after she was knocked over by an officer.

AAP

Boy dies after Geraldton house fire as arson investigation continues

A 13-year-old boy dies three days after a fire tore through a home in Geraldton in Western Australia's Midwest.

ABC News

Geraldton teens hospitalised with critical burns after house fire

Three teenage boys from Geraldton, WA, are fighting for life as police probe a major house fire in Western Australia.

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Teen boy fighting for life as police probe house fire

Investigators are examining the scene of a house fire at Geraldton in Western Australia, where three teenage boys were badly burned.

The New Daily

Arson probe as teenagers fight for life after Geraldton house fire

Arson squad detectives have taken over the investigation of a house fire in Geraldton which left three boys have significant burns.

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Police seize loaded homemade firearm and drugs in Geraldton

Geraldton detectives say a loaded gun, gel blaster and assorted rounds of ammunition were among items seized by police during a recent search.

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Jamie Phillip Mongoo jailed over burglary, invasion of 8yo girl's Geraldton bedroom

Jamie Phillip Mongoo, who broke into a family home in the state's Midwest and climbed a young girl's loft-style bed, has been sentenced for home burglary, assault, stealing, trespassing and fraud.

ABC News

Remote WA residents craving airline competition welcome new carrier Nexus

Residents across Western Australia's north hope the arrival of Nexus Airlines will see cheaper airfares and more reliability of services.

ABC News

Geraldton man in his 60s found dead after shipmates tread water for four hours

A man has died and two other people have been treated for hypothermia after spending four hours in the water off the West Australian coast.

ABC News

Inciting violence charges dropped against Geraldton 'sovereign citizen' Wayne Kenneth Glew

Prosecutors have dropped their case against a West Australian "sovereign citizen" accused of encouraging his social media followers to arrest the premier.

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Max Marsden shark attack near Geraldton a 'surreal' fight or flight moment for prominent West Australian surfer

Prominent WA surfer Max Marsden fought off a shark after it bit his arm while surfing at a remote WA beach, as friends await the outcome of his surgery.

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Max Marsden recovering in hospital after shark attack in Greenough, near Geraldton

Well-known local surfer Max Marsden is recovering in hospital after being attacked by a shark in Greenough, near Geraldton in Western Australia.

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Decades-long jail terms for four men snared in billion-dollar Geraldton meth bust

Four men from Sydney are sentenced to decades in jail for their roles in a "sophisticated" drug importation that saw 1.2 tonnes of methamphetamine — with an estimated worth of up to $1.1 billion dollars — smuggled into Western Australia.

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Former Geraldton police officer Mark Kevin Swain pleads not guilty to child abuse charges

Mark Kevin Swain, 49, is set to stand trial on a number of child abuse charges, after allegedly meeting two 14-year-old girls on the Sugar Daddy Meet dating app.

ABC News

Details of Geraldton drug bust, then Australia's biggest meth seizure, can finally be revealed

After more than five years, three trials and countless hours of legal argument, details can finally be revealed of the brazen attempt to import 1.2 tonnes of meth into Western Australia.

ABC News

Geraldton Buccaneers' championship trio take to NBL1 West basketball court after three-year wait

The Geraldton Buccaneers' senior trio hopes an injury-free line-up will keep a NBL1 championship window alive.

ABC News

George Windie faces court over alleged child abuse at abandoned Geraldton building

A second man has fronted a WA court charged with the alleged abuse of a child at a derelict Geraldton building.

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