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Botched police search lets man found with packages of drugs walk free

A WA judge finds police acted unlawfully in detaining a man in July 2023, leading to him being allowed to go free despite being found to be in possession of methylamphetamine. 
A WA police officer stands with his back to the camera looking at two trucks

Published: Source: ABC NewsTopic: Policeby Cason Ho

Contractor fined $540k over mine worker's avoidable death

A mining contractor has been fined following the death of a driller killed by falling rocks at an underground mine in Western Australia's Goldfields nearly three years ago.
A woman holds a little girl while touching a flower against a memorial wall.

Published: Source: ABC GoldfieldsTopic: Courtsby Jarrod Lucas

Here's how wet it got this winter, and what WA can expect for spring

Western Australia's winter was foggy, rainy and even featured a tornado, along with several snow flurries on Bluff Knoll. Here are the pictures that illustrate the season.
Thunder over Perth City.

Published: Source: ABC NewsTopic: Weatherby Kenith Png

Red tape slows the sale of Australia's largest sheep station

A deal has been done to sell Rawlinna Station to a UK-owned pastoral company, but six months on the WA government is yet to approve the sale.  
A wooden sign at the entrance to Rawlinna Station.  

Published: Source: ABC Midwest & WheatbeltTopic: Sheep Farmingby Belinda Varischetti and Joanna Prendergast

Neurodivergent students exit mainstream in droves amid school refusal crisis

Special assistance schools are experiencing growing demand as traditional classrooms fall short of meeting the needs of neurodivergent students.
a teenage boy looks at the camera wearing a cap and headphone. His mum stands at his side smiling at him lovingly.

Published: Source: ABC NewsTopic: Secondary Educationby Dimitria Panagiotaros

Behaviour of constable who laughed at man's death in custody 'unacceptable': Premier

The WA Premier condemns the behaviour of a WA Police constable who dismissed a detainee's threat of suicide and then laughed about his death in custody.
Barbed wire extends across the frame over silhouetted trees against a twilight sky of oranges pinks and purples

Published: Source: ABC NewsTopic: Black Deaths In Custodyby Cason Ho, Andy Burns Andy Burns and Charlotte King

Linton warned a police officer he was going to die, then when he did, she laughed

The ABC has obtained a voice recording of a WA police officer laughing about the suicide of an Aboriginal prisoner. It comes as new data shows the state has the highest rates of Indigenous deaths in custody in Australia. 
A stylised collage shows polaroid frames around photos of a young boy, and a young man at centre

Published: Source: ABC NewsTopic: Black Deaths In Custodyby Cason Ho, Andy Burns Andy Burns, Charlotte King, Hayden Smith, Sharon Gordon, Lucy Sweeney and Catherine McAloon

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Indigenous man tasered by Kalgoorlie police

The WA corruption watchdog is reviewing police conduct over an incident where officers twice shoved a man to the ground before tasering him on a Kalgoorlie street.
Duration: 4 minutes 48 seconds

Source: ABC News

Early days of Kalgoorlie's Super Pit

The Super Pit began production in 1989, mining gold from Kalgoorlie's famous Golden Mile as a single open cut mine rather than the historical underground methods.
Duration: 6 minutes 53 seconds

Source: ABC News

Grey nomad strikes gold unearthing nugget in outback

A Victorian man has unearthed a gold nugget worth around $40,000 while filming a prospecting tutorial video in WA's Goldfields with his wife.
Duration: 28 seconds

Source: ABC Goldfields

Hay convoy of compassion

More than 80 trucks carrying 6,000 bales of hay and straw will leave WA bound for drought-stricken SA. ABC Great Southern: Tara Delandgrafft & Mark Bennett
Duration: 2 minutes 42 seconds

Source: ABC News

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