Uranium miner coaxed government to water down extinction safeguards

Posted on April 26, 2019 by Admin

Cameco did not have to show if WA mine would lead to extinction of tiny fauna before its approval on 10 April

A multinational uranium miner persuaded the federal government to drop a requirement forcing it to show that a mine in outback Western Australia would not make any species extinct before it could go ahead.

Canadian-based Cameco argued in November 2017 the condition proposed by the government for the Yeelirrie uranium mine, in goldfields north of Kalgoorlie, would be too difficult to meet.

Weather warning in place for WA’s south as cold front could bring snow

Posted on April 19, 2019 by Admin

Gusts of up to 91km/h recorded, leaving thousands of properties without power

A severe weather warning for Perth and Western Australia’s Goldfields-Midlands region has been cancelled but remained in place on Friday afternoon for the state’s south, where the first significant cold front of the year could bring snow.

Strong winds in the early hours of Friday ripped the roof off a house on Shorehaven Boulevard in Alkimos on the city’s northern fringe. The owners were not at home.

The stillness of Australia’s massacre sites – in pictures

Posted on April 16, 2019 by Admin

Photographer Brendan Beirne visited massacre sites across Australia. Using infrared technology he has created a series of images which take you to the unquiet places where Indigenous people were slaughtered

Cyclone Trevor: racism claims denied as Northern Territory begins clean-up

Posted on March 24, 2019 by Admin

Claims fly-in fly-out workers given better accommodation than Indigenous evacuees
Cyclone Veronica continues to threaten WA’s Pilbara region

As the Northern Territory begins its big mop-up after Cyclone Trevor, local authorities have hosed down racism claims concerning evacuation efforts.

Trevor forced mass evacuations before it made landfall on Saturday morning as a category four system, with destructive winds gusting up to 250km/h.

Cyclone Trevor lashes Northern Territory coast with destructive winds

Posted on March 23, 2019 by Admin

Residents of Port Hedland and Karratha in Western Australia prepare for Cyclone Veronica, due to hit on Sunday morning

Cyclone Trevor has struck the Northern Territory as a category four system, hammering remote communities with destructive 250 km/h winds and torrential rain.

It was one of two monster storm fronts bearing down on northern Australia this weekend – cyclone Veronica was hurtling towards the Pilbara region in Western Australia.

Final Wittenoom residents to be forced out of asbestos-ridden mining town

Posted on March 20, 2019 by Admin

Western Australian government to compulsorily acquire properties in deadly Pilbara site, where there are fears for tourists who still visit the area

Landowners who refuse to move from the most contaminated site in the southern hemisphere will have their properties compulsorily acquired by the Western Australian government.

A bill to finalise the closure of the former asbestos mining town Wittenoom in the Pilbara, which was de-gazetted in 2007, was due to be introduced to state parliament on Wednesday.

Celia Hammond wins Liberal preselection in Julie Bishop’s seat

Posted on March 10, 2019 by Admin

Former university vice-chancellor was backed by prominent conservatives including Mathias Cormann

Celia Hammond has been named the Liberal party’s candidate for Curtin, the safest blue-ribbon seat in Western Australia held by the former foreign minister Julie Bishop.

The former University of Notre Dame vice-chancellor, who was backed by prominent conservatives including the finance minister, Mathias Cormann, was preselected at a meeting on Sunday as the candidate for Curtin to fill the seat Bishop has held for two decades.

Western Australia environment watchdog plans tougher curbs on emissions

Posted on March 7, 2019 by Admin

EPA chief says new regulations are needed to meet Paris targets, putting future LNG projects under threat

Western Australia’s environmental protection authority has announced tough new measures aimed at curbing greenhouse gas emissions from large projects.

The EPA, which works independently and makes recommendations to the WA government about whether new developments should be granted environmental approval, said on Thursday it was setting a “higher bar” for how it would assess the impact of major projects on the climate.

Australia extreme heatwave: ‘code red’ issued as Port Augusta hits 48.9C

Posted on January 15, 2019 by Admin

Severe weather conditions forecast to bring maximum temperatures 8C to 16C above average, as three towns record overnight minimums of 33C

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Port Augusta in South Australia has reached 48.9C on Tuesday, as a heatwave sets in across much of Australia threatening more record hot days.

All-time highest minimum temperatures have also been broken in three places. Meekatharra in Western Australia and Fowlers Gap and White Cliffs in New South Wales all registered an overnight minimum of 33C on Monday.

Temperatures to soar as heatwave hits every state and territory

Posted on January 12, 2019 by Admin

Much of Australia will bake this week with meteorologists forecasting the hot conditions will last for days in some parts

Every state and territory will bake through a heatwave on Monday with meteorologists saying soaring temperatures will last for days in some parts.

The Bureau of Meteorology said hot days were expected in January but multiple days in a row of temperatures above 40C were unusual.

Tiny Nannup hits the big time with world’s largest wooden pendulum clock

Posted on January 11, 2019 by Admin

Western Australian timber town joins Australia’s list of big things thanks to the tenacity of Kevin Bird and his 6m clock

It rains a lot in Nannup. The small timber town in south-western Western Australia, population of just over 1,300, receives almost a metre of rainfall a year. For a builder like Kevin Bird, that means a lot of days when it’s too wet to work.

It could be an opportunity to catch up on the accounts, or even leave off work for the day and read a book. Instead, Bird used his wet-weather days to build the largest wooden pendulum clock in the world.

Bitten by a great white shark: survivors on their near-death experience

Posted on January 2, 2019 by Admin

Human reactions to shark attacks have fascinated Fiona Adolph for more than a decade. Here she examines a global hotspot, Western Australia

On a whisper-still January dawn, the most terrifying day of Allan Oppert’s life began unremarkably and with a feeling of deep calm.

Like most Sundays, he woke to a knock on the door from his friends Dan and Dave. At Allan’s neat house in the small seaside town of Binningup, in the south-west corner of Western Australia, the three men drank strong coffee before towing Allan’s boat to a nearby ramp where three friends were launching another vessel. The two groups were heading out on the ocean together, a familiar arrangement aimed at ensuring safety.

Denishar Woods’s family given $1m payment after electric shock injury

Posted on January 2, 2019 by Admin

Western Australian government makes act of grace payment over catastrophic brain injury from shock on public housing property

The family of a girl who suffered a catastrophic brain injury after a severe electric shock at a public housing property has been offered a $1m act of grace payment from the West Australian government.

Denishar Woods, then aged 11, was shocked with up to 230 volts when she touched a garden tap at a Beldon property in March.

Australian man screaming at spider ‘why don’t you die?’ triggers full police response

Posted on January 2, 2019 by Admin

Multiple officers arrive at home to find Perth man with ‘serious fear’ of arachnids ‘trying to kill a spider’

Police in Western Australia have confirmed they sent multiple officers to an emergency call that turned out to be a screaming man with a “serious fear” of spiders.

A concerned passerby was walking outside a house in suburban Perth when they heard a toddler screaming and a man repeatedly shouting “Why don’t you die?”

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Category Archives: Western Australia

Uranium miner coaxed government to water down extinction safeguards

Weather warning in place for WA’s south as cold front could bring snow

The stillness of Australia’s massacre sites – in pictures

Cyclone Trevor: racism claims denied as Northern Territory begins clean-up

Cyclone Trevor lashes Northern Territory coast with destructive winds

Final Wittenoom residents to be forced out of asbestos-ridden mining town

Celia Hammond wins Liberal preselection in Julie Bishop’s seat

Western Australia environment watchdog plans tougher curbs on emissions

Australia extreme heatwave: ‘code red’ issued as Port Augusta hits 48.9C

Temperatures to soar as heatwave hits every state and territory

Tiny Nannup hits the big time with world’s largest wooden pendulum clock

Bitten by a great white shark: survivors on their near-death experience

Denishar Woods’s family given $1m payment after electric shock injury

Australian man screaming at spider ‘why don’t you die?’ triggers full police response