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WA prison inspector uncovers cruel conditions inside Banksia Hill Detention Centre

A snap inspection of WA's Banksia Hill Detention Centre uncovers "cruel conditions" after growing concerns in recent months that the facility had begun to treat its detainees "like animals".

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Kimberley juvenile crime puts all eyes on WA government as communities wait for long-term solutions

Premier Mark McGowan wants his government to help break the cycle of crime and dysfunction in the Kimberley, but residents are in the dark about how it intends to start.

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Passenger dies, pilot treated for burns after plane crashes trying to land at East Kimberley airport

Police have confirmed a man in his 50s is dead after he was pulled from the crash scene near East Kimberley Regional Airport this morning. The incident was reported by a member of the public fishing nearby.

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NAIF adds $65m in support of Thunderbird mineral sands mine after probe into Yansteel link

The Thunderbird Mine between Broome and Derby has been on the cards for nearly four years, but a funding boost has instilled confidence that the project may finally go ahead.

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Kimberley communities' clarion call for state support to combat COVID

Limited access to rapid antigen test kits, insufficient health services, a food shortage and overcrowding in homes has led Western Australia's remote Kimberley communities to say they feel 'abandoned' in the state government's response to remote COVID outbreaks.

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Kimberley pastoral partnership boosts job prospects for Indigenous youth, fills vacancies

Pastoralists in Western Australia's remote north have partnered with traditional owners to create jobs for young Aboriginal people, an arrangement built on "mutual respect".

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WA State Solicitor's Office investigating Kimberley Land Council's charitable trust

The managers of the trust say they have nothing to hide and are fully cooperating with an independent review as well as a state investigation.

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Staff send 'big love' to customers of new craft ale shop in Kimberley

The opening evening was 'amazing'

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Coroner urges quick action to save 'current generation' in findings into Child J's suicide in state care

An inquest finds that while everyone did all they could to help Child J, there were still missed opportunities to prevent the Kimberley teen from taking his own life in state care.

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‘They thought they could hide’: the Aboriginal tracker who brought massacre perpetrators to trial

James Noble’s harrowing discovery on the banks of the Forrest River in 1926 helped uncover a trail of slaughter across WA’s east Kimberley and continues to haunt his descendants

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Opposition accuses government of intimidating Kimberley education worker who leaked attendance data

Brock Burston's criminal trial highlighted dire school attendance rates at Halls Creek District High School and WA's Opposition says he should not be punished for his actions.

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Operation Regional Shield identifies almost 600 at-risk children in Kimberley police crackdown

Police identify nearly 600 at-risk children through Operation Regional Shield in response to spiralling youth crime.

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Andrew Forrest's purchase of Kimberley cattle stations has traditional owners hopeful of social benefits

The sale of a group of East Kimberley cattle stations to billionaire Andrew Forrest has traditional owners hopeful of future benefits to Indigenous people, through employment and tourism.

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Crackdown on sly grogging as trial of banned drinkers register begins in the Goldfields

The Goldfields is the third region in Western Australia to try out the state government's register, joining the Pilbara and Kimberley in a campaign aimed at problem drinkers.

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Extinction crisis: native mammals are disappearing in Northern Australia, but few people are watching

At the time Australia was colonised by Europeans, an estimated 180 mammal species lived in the continent’s northern savannas. The landscape teemed with animals, from microbats to rock-wallabies and northern quolls. Many of these mammals were found nowhere else on Earth.

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WA to introduce tougher COVID-19 restrictions from Thursday as cases in remote communities revealed as false positives

Western Australia will move to the next level of COVID-19 restrictions from Thursday as COVID cases in Bidyadanga and Beagle Bay communities are revealed as false positives.

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COVID-19 disrupts social fabric in the Kimberley as community transmission grows

While only a handful of communities have been impacted by the pandemic so far, the prospect of widespread cases is disrupting the joys many residents take for granted.

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Cyclone Anika downgraded as it passes through North Kimberley, no injuries reported

Police in the remote WA town of Kalumburu say they had a "pretty rough night" with wind gusts of up to 100kph, but that it only resulted in minor structural damage to a few houses.

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Kimberley leaders push for broader Banned Drinkers Register to curb alcohol-fuelled violence

Leaders in WA's Kimberley urge the state government to broaden the Banned Drinkers Register so it resembles what is in place in the Northern Territory.

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Tropical Cyclone Anika moves towards Kimberley coast as Darwin no longer on cyclone watch

A cyclone bearing down on the northern Kimberley coast is expected to bring destructive wind gusts of up to 130 kilometres per hour and make landfall to the north-east of the remote WA community of Kalumburu.

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Western Australia notches up more than 1,000 new COVID-19 cases for second day running

Western Australia records 1,098 new local cases of COVID-19, with 15 people now in hospital.

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National Museum of Australia's latest acquisition depicts the Rainbow Serpent's wrath in the form of Cyclone Tracy

Renowned Kimberley artist Rover Thomas' painting, Jabanunga Goorialla (the Rainbow Serpent), is donated to the National Museum of Australia.

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Kimberley pub to reconsider its future over liquor infringements and the region's crime rate

A police operation in the Kimberley has ended in a number of fines to liquor retailers, as one pub owner flies in from Perth to address the situation.

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Kimberley community of Bidyadanga starts men's fitness class to support kidney transplant patient

When Terry Mungul found out he needed an organ transplant, he didn't expect his community would join him on a health kick, but they did.

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Lake Argyle Resort in the East Kimberley sold to big Australian tourism provider

How a schoolboy gazing from his outback classroom at "the best view in the world" grew up to build the spectacular Lake Argyle Resort on the site — and then sold it.

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