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WA:'Fake gas shortage': anger at premier's fracking threat

Conservationists have slammed a premier over his comments about a gas shortage and fracking in the Kimberley region if a Woodside gas project isn't developed.

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'Fake gas shortage': anger at premier's fracking threat

Conservationists have slammed a premier over his comments about a gas shortage and fracking in the Kimberley region if a Woodside gas project isn't developed.

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250 million-year-old amphibian fossils from Australia reveal global spread of ‘sea-salamanders’

The Kimberley region in the north-west corner of Western Australia is full of rugged ranges and gorges, and long stretches of red soil and rocky ground. The dry seasons are long, and the wet seasons often flood the Martuwarra Fitzroy River – an artery to the Indian Ocean – in…

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If fracking begins in the Kimberley, it could damage a sacred river

Under the soils of the Kimberley lies one of the world’s last undeveloped large-scale reservoirs of onshore gas, according to the gas company hoping to extract it.

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'Seriously wrong': activists condemn fracking decision

An environmental watchdog has recommended a Kimberley fracking proposal but conservationists say the decision is flawed and they'll appeal it.

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‘Outrageous’: EPA backs WA fracking project that may add up to 2.6% to Australia’s emissions

State environmental regulator says Valhalla project, set to drill up to 20 gas wells in Canning basin, can proceed subject to conditions

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Clean-up begins but cyclone threat yet to disappear

The clean-up has begun in the Top End, but a cyclone threat remains as northern Australia braces for more wild weather.

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Red cliffs, big tides, ancient art: the Kimberley up close

Cruise a coastline of ochre headlands, hidden billabongs and coral gardens, with fishing at dawn and a helicopter landing for lunch

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'Like a warm bath': coral reefs rocked by heatwave

Pristine coral reefs off a remote patch of the Australian coastline are under stress from a severe marine heatwave that shows no sign of letting up.

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Kimberley matriarchs urge investment in women

The federal government must invest in Aboriginal women's leadership to make a difference in communities, one Western Australian organisation says.

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Drama of WA's Kimberley in paintings - and on plates

A new commissioning program features Indigenous artists including Mervyn Street, who led a class action to recover stolen wages in Western Australia.

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Headset voyage to 'nowhere else like it on the planet'

An award-winning pioneer of virtual reality films invites travellers to experience the Kimberley region, with Luke Hemsworth at your side as a personal guide.

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Morning Mail: voters back Dutton’s Gaza visa attack, Australia’s hottest-ever winter day, Trump’s debate threat

Essential survey shows criticism of refugee policy is chiming with Australians; Kimberley spot sees temperature of 41.6C

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Crocodiles given tummy aches to stop cane toad feasts

Rangers and scientists have been training crocodiles in Western Australia not to eat cane toads, by giving them a bout of food poisoning.

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Cane toad-break zone to stop notorious pest march in WA

A WA coastal strip that deprives cane toads of the water they need to survive offers a once-in-a-lifetime opportunity to prevent an ecological catastrophe.

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Nation in for a soaking as massive rainband heads east

Rain is forecast in every state and territory as a weather system spanning thousands of kilometres makes it way from west to east.

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Missing boat arrival found, PM dismisses criticism

Police have found a missing man who arrived as part of a group in an "unknown vessel" in Western Australia's remote far north.

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Search for man from 'unknown vessel' in remote WA

Police in WA are searching for a man separated from a group believed to have landed in the remote Kimberley region on an '"unknown vessel".

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People once lived in a vast region in north-western Australia – and it had an inland sea

For much of the 65,000 years of Australia’s human history, the now-submerged northwest continental shelf connected the Kimberley and western Arnhem Land. This vast, habitable realm covered nearly 390,000 square kilometres, an area one-and-a-half times larger than New Zealand is today.

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Direct conversations in the Kimberley echo as one

The Whole Point: Constitutional recognition will benefit all Australians

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'Government all over us like a rash': the broken service delivery system in remote Aboriginal communities

Indigenous people in remote and very remote communities in Australia tend to experience poorer health, education and employment services and outcomes compared to the general population.

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Motion sensor cameras show cane toads on the march

Cane toads are being found at alarming rates in Western Australia's Kimberley but motion sensor cameras have also detected the presence of a rare marsupial.

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Indigenous fashion showed off in Kununurra amid big dreams for emerging scene

Indigenous artists in Western Australia's East Kimberley talk up the future potential of fashion design, as young people explore new ways of expressing one of the oldest cultures on earth.

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Gija language dictionary reflects rich culture, Warmun art and East Kimberley landscape

Gija people are known across Australia and globally for their striking artwork. Now, after decades of painstaking work, the beauty of their language is there for all to read.

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Beware red flags and fakes: how to buy authentic First Nations designs that benefit creators and communities

From souvenir shops to art galleries, First Nations designs are big business. Australia’s Productivity Commission estimates about $250 million of Indigenous-style art and consumer products are sold annually. But just 16% of that ends up in the hands of Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander artists.

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