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Independent Pilbara probe after child squalor claims

Media claims that more a dozen Indigenous children were living unsupervised in a squalid home has prompted calls for new laws to better protect children.

AAP · Sep 25

Tasmanian devils lived in Australia’s Pilbara for years before disappearing from the mainland

Recent archaeological discoveries in Juukan Gorge have shed light on the ancient habitat of Tasmanian devils in the Pilbara region. Analysis of two dental samples places their existence during the Late Pleistocene and Holocene ages. The findings also reveal long-standing interactions with humans evidenced by chewed bones, suggesting that these…

The Times of India · Sep 23

Tasmanian devils lived alongside humans in Pilbara for millennia, Juukan Gorge fossils reveal

Researchers find fossils ranging from 7,000 years to 46,000 years old showing evidence that devils may have become reliant on humans for scavenging

The Guardian - AU · Sep 11

Here’s what’s at stake as BHP workers prepare for a historic strike

On Thursday, up to 200 workers at mining giant BHP’s Port Hedland export terminal will take protected industrial action for eight hours. This will mark the first strike action at the company’s iron division since 2000.

The Conversation · Jul 14

Former top BHP economist urges tougher government policies to push miners to decarbonise

Exclusive: ‘The preferred policy is, of course, a carbon price,’ Dr Huw McKay says, amid slowdown in BHP action on emissions

The Guardian - AU · Jul 9

Port worker wage stoush set to trigger historic strike

Hundreds of port workers are expected to walk off the job after failed wage negotiations between a mining giant and unions.

AAP · Jul 8

Earth’s oldest asteroid impact crater may just have been found

Researchers date North Pole Dome in Australia’s Pilbara region to over 3 billion years ago

The Independent UK · Jun 24

Earth’s oldest crater really is over 3 billion years old, new study confirms

In the Pilbara of Western Australia, some of Earth’s oldest rocks lie beneath the sky, as they have for billions of years. They are dark, weathered volcanic rocks, close to 3.5 billion years old, cut by veins and stewed by deep time.

The Conversation · Jun 23

Scientists in Australia find ‘smoking gun’ evidence of world’s oldest meteorite strike

Curtin University researchers use innovative techniques to date three-billion-year-old impact crater in Western Australia’s Pilbara region

The Guardian - AU · Jun 23

For 44 years, Australia has subsidised diesel use. Is it time to stop?

Mining giant BHP has come under fire for spending hundreds of millions of dollars on new diesel trucks in the Pilbara, despite promising a transition to electric trucks in its climate strategy.

The Conversation · May 26