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After waiting 50 years, remote community resorts to Chinese prefab homes

Sick of waiting decades for repairs and new homes, an Indigenous community in WA pools funds to buy two houses, made in China from shipping containers, to house its most vulnerable residents.
A very ramshackle house with iron boards acting as a fence, black tee hangs over it. Seen through a wire mesh.

Published: Source: StatelineTopic: Housing Policyby Alistair Bates and Charlie McLean

Can Palau's 'lucky reefs' save our oceans?

Palau's corals have emerged unscathed from the world's devastating marine heatwaves. Researchers are breeding and planting them to save reefs from disappearing.
A bay with a swirl of dark blue and turquoise blue waters and patches of reef.

Published: Source: The PacificTopic: Oceansby Hugo Hodge

Remote community celebrates anniversary of dialysis breakthrough

Smithy Zimran died before he could realise his dream of receiving dialysis on country, but his legacy lives on.
A group of Aboriginal women stand and sit around a large painting in the desert.

Published: Source: ABC Alice SpringsTopic: Indigenous Australiansby Victoria Ellis

New marine park to protect WA's world-famous Exmouth Gulf

The West Australian government announces a new marine park to safeguard an enormous stretch of coastline adjacent to Ningaloo Reef.
An aerial image of tidal inlets and mangrove wetlands.

Published: Source: ABC PilbaraTopic: Marine Parksby Alistair Bates and Mietta Adams

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

'Life well lived': Port Hedland pays tribute to stalwart

Arnold Carter, 98, leaves behind a legacy of leadership and community spirit after six decades living in Port Hedland.  
An elderly man sitting on a bench in a cemetery, with graves behind him.

Published: Source: ABC PilbaraTopic: Regional Communities

Commissioners named to run Port Hedland after mayor's exit

Two former WA MPs and a veteran mayor are tasked with getting the trouble-plagued Town of Port Hedland back on track following the resignation of its mayor.
Two men and two women, all formally dressed and standing in front of some shrubbery.

Published: Source: ABC PilbaraTopic: Local Governmentby Charlie Mills, Courtney Withers and Sam Tomlin

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UNESCO Rock Art

The rock art of Murujuga in WA has been recognised as a world heritage site. ✏️
A lizard carved into the surface of a rock amongst many other rocks.
Duration: 3 minutes 26 seconds

Source: BTN

Underwater Trove: Studying submerged heritage sites

Archaeologists are studying underwater sites that date back 65,000 years from when the seabed was part of the Australian land mass.
Duration: 6 minutes 7 seconds

Source: ABC News

Indigenous rangers join archaeologists in search of ancient underwater artefacts off WA coast

For years researchers have been trying to crack archaeology's 'last frontier' - the ancient artefacts sitting on the ocean floor. Now they've brought in local Indigenous rangers to help.
Duration: 41 seconds

Source: ABC Pilbara

FIFO workers in the remote WA mining town of Pannawonica call this imposing rock formation the 'Panna Hill', but Robe River Kuruma people know it as 'Parlapuni'.

FIFO workers in the remote WA mining town of Pannawonica call this imposing rock formation the Panna Hill, but Robe River Kuruma people know it as Parlapuni.
Duration: 2 minutes 16 seconds

Source: ABC News

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