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WA Esperance community push to keep tourists safe as another dies after being swept off deadly rocks

The latest tragedy came on Sunday when a 29-year-old tourist from Pakistan was washed off the rocks.

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Tourist dies after being washed from rocks at Chapmans Point near Esperance

A 29-year-old tourist was washed from rocks and died at Chapmans Point on Sunday.

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Esperance employer believes broadening DAMA program could plug workforce holes

Jane Coole spent months racking her brain for a plan to recruit staff to her regional restaurant. She's finally got one.

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Australia's Young Farmer of the Year for 2022, Brad Egan says precision is key to success

The 27-year-old farmer is a big believer in precision agriculture and has spent countless hours gathering and crunching data about his family's 3400-hectare farm at Scaddan, north of Esperance WA.

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Unauthorised road reserve clearing 'commonplace' in Esperance, documents allege

The state regulator is failing to deter farmers from planting crops on public land, documents from the Shire of Esperance claim.

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Esperance Aged Care Facility issued non-compliance notice after audit notes multiple failings

One resident was given a bucket to urinate in, another was not showered for three days, and management was found to "struggle with difficult conversations", a report says.

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Sardine fisherman hopes changing consumer attitudes will get his catch on dinner plates

Socially conscious consumers are helping drive demand for locally sourced seafood. One Esperance producer says that has created opportunities for his family business.

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Brave young nurse with cancer travels to Scotland to complete bucket list before dying

Eleanor McCleave, from a small town in western Australia called Esperance, has always planned to travel across since family friend Iain McLeod's vivid tales of his hometown on the Isle of Skye when she was a youngster.

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How an Esperance wood cutting service is chipping in thousands of dollars for the Royal Flying Doctor Service

Over the past 15 years these volunteers have raised more than $700,000 for the Royal Flying Doctor Service — a cause close to their hearts.

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Gilbert's potoroo, the world's rarest marsupial, photographed with joey near Esperance

Gilbert's Potoroo, the rarest marsupial on earth, is having babies in its brand new home on Middle Island and researchers are celebrating.

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Esperance Aged Care Facility requests mining company donation to reopen beds, ease waitlist

The Esperance Aged Care Facility is asking for a slice of a mining company's donation so it can reopen beds to the community.

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Arts in crisis in WA as survey finds COVID restrictions put 75pc of sector at risk of closure

A WA Chamber of Arts and Culture survey has painted a bleak picture of the sector, with cancellations putting the viability of many organisations at risk and more than half of respondents experiencing mental health issues over the past two years

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Skilled refugee pilot program's first recruit, Maya Assad, now on track for Australian citizenship

After a phone call in Lebanon that changed the refugee engineer's life forever, Ms Assad is about to become an Australian citizen.

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Three fatal shark attacks left the Esperance community shaken. Now they're rebuilding their trust in the ocean

For the residents of this small Australian town, a series of shark attacks prompted an almost existential crisis. What does it mean to love the ocean when it's a place of so much grief?

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Sounds of the Ngaanyatjarra Lands and Esperance captured in new double-album released through WAM project

Artists from the Goldfields-Esperance region are recorded in a double album that captures, among other sounds, a uniquely desert style of reggae born of a professional approach..

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Andrew Forrest's Fortescue Future Industries may set hydrogen industry precedent with Esperance wind turbine leases

Wind turbines have proven a windfall for farmers, who are paid fees by electricity generators to put the infrastructure on their land. But will the deals be as good for landowners embarking on lease agreements with those in the hydrogen industry?

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Kelp Beds shark attacks prompt WA's Esperance council to consider 'more dramatic' signage

Kelp Beds is unlikely to strike a visitor as a particularly dangerous place to surf. But the place has a tragic history, which some believe tourists should be better warned about.

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Esperance filmmaker Dave Riggs eyes blue whale carcass for next Bremer Canyon project

Dave Riggs has been heading to the waters off Bremer Bay to films orcas for years. But this season, he has his sights set on a different subject — a dead blue whale.

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Esperance Shire Council to write to WA Premier about COVID vaccine mandate concerns

A WA council says it will aim to hold events at venues where unvaccinated residents can attend, despite the looming threat of the Omicron variant.

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Perth man uses Bear Grylls-inspired survival technique after getting lost near Esperance

Unable to find his way back to his car and with the sun setting, Perth man Glynn Sherris was worried and desperately thirsty. That was when he recalled the words of a certain English survivalist.

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Woman in rubber ring attacked at sea by shark leaving 'trail of blood' across water

Barry Brown was swimming at Wylie Bay in Esperance, Australia when he saw the woman drifting further and further out to sea - to his horror he saw the predator swimming underneath

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Esperance resident helped young woman from water after shark attack

Barry Brown won't be swimming at Wylie Bay again any time soon. He was first on the scene following the attack after taking his first dip in the ocean in about two years.

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Woman attacked by shark at Esperance in WA's south, scene of two previous fatal attacks

A woman is taken to hospital after being attacked by a shark at Kelp Beds, east of Esperance, on WA's south coast, the scene of two fatal shark attacks in recent years.

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Esperance swimmers stranded as large white shark cruises past popular jumping spot

Two swimmers were stranded and three others made a dash for shore after a white shark cruised past a popular rock jumping spot along the Esperance coast.

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Esperance community fears for Cape Barren goose in mourning after mate's death

They were like an inseparable, old married couple, but the delightful tale of two Cape Barren geese has taken a tragic turn — with an unexplained death, a police investigation and welfare concerns for the lonely survivor.

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