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Western Australia's biggest emitters increase carbon output 5 per cent year on year

Analysis by the ABC of the past six financial years of reported emissions, under the national safeguard mechanism, shows a 15 per cent increase in carbon dioxide released by major WA projects, and up 5 per cent on last year's figure.

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Mark McGowan praises mother who 'fought off' dingo that attacked son in Karijini National Park

A mother has been described as "courageous" after she "fought off" a dingo that attacked her two-year-old son at a popular tourist destination in Western Australia's north.

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Western Australia assesses Cyclone Ilsa's 'path of destruction'

Emergency authorities in Western Australia were assessing damage on Saturday from a tropical cyclone that hit the state's northwest, sparing heavily populated areas but affecting several remote communities.

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Cyclone Ilsa: how disasters, the housing crisis and underinsurance can conspire to worsen inequality

Most communities along the northwest coast of Western Australia appear to have dodged a bullet after Cyclone Ilsa made landfall overnight. While some structures, such as the Pardoo Roadhouse, were damaged, the destruction was less than we feared.

The Conversation

‘Four hours of hell’: Cyclone Ilsa leaves multimillion-dollar damage bill

The owners of a remote roadhouse smashed by Tropical Cyclone Ilsa have vowed to rebuild, despite a multimillion-dollar damage bill.

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Cyclone Ilsa: Western Australia braces for most powerful storm in 12 years to batter coast

Cyclone Isla is sweeping across the Indian Ocean with wind speeds of almost 200 mph and is expected to continue its destructive level as it hits Australia's west coast

Daily Mirror

Australia’s northwest braces for strongest cyclone in a decade

Cyclone Ilsa is predicted to gather strength before making landfall on Western Australia’s northern coast.

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Anatomy of monster storm: how Cyclone Ilsa is shaping up to devastate the WA coast

Residents along Western Australia’s northwest coast are bracing for Tropical Cyclone Ilsa, which is expected to be one of the most destructive storms to strike the region in more than a decade.

The Conversation

Hordes of Portuguese millipedes invade southern WA households as cooler, wetter weather arrives

Cooler weather and the first rains of autumn have led to huge numbers of Portuguese millipedes infiltrating WA homes as they search for a mate.

ABC News

Rex airline operations in WA 'not up to standard communities expect', senior manager says

The airline says skilled labour shortages, supply chain issues, and the highest pilot attrition rate since the global financial crisis are to blame for recent cancellations and delays in Western Australia.

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Australia Bracing For Direct Hit From Strengthening Cyclone Ilsa

As Tropical Cyclone Ilsa intensifies later this week, Western Australia is bracing for high winds and flooding.

Zenger

Severe Tropical Cyclone Ilsa set to make landfall tonight as WA's Kimberley, Pilbara brace for damaging winds, rain

Communities along Western Australia's Kimberley and Pilbara coasts are preparing for destructive winds and heavy rain, with Tropical Cyclone Ilsa predicted to make landfall later tonight or early tomorrow morning as a category-four system.

ABC News

A hybrid solar eclipse will occur this week. What is it and why is it so rare?

Thousands of people are flocking to Exmouth in Western Australia this month hoping to catch a solar eclipse. So what are solar eclipses, and how much will the rest of Australia see?

ABC News

Afternoon Update: WA braces for powerful cyclone; AFL opens racism investigations; and China’s first H3N8 bird flu death

A cyclone powerful enough to ‘pick up a caravan’ is due to hit Western Australia on Thursday

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North-west battens down as Cyclone Ilsa gathers strength

Worksites and communities are being evacuated as Tropical Cyclone Ilsa builds in intensity and moves towards the Western Australian coast.

The Conversation

How the world’s oldest known meteorite impact structure changed the chemistry of Earth’s crust

Meteorite impacts can be cataclysmic events in the history of a planet, melting rock, changing atmospheric chemistry, and wreaking general havoc.

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Potential category four cyclone Ilsa brews off WA as BOM warns of gale-force winds, heavy rain

Warnings of gale-force winds and heavy rainfall are issued for Western Australia's north as a potential severe tropical cyclone brews off the coast.

The New Daily

Widespread damage expected as cyclone strengthens

A cyclone forming off northern Western Australia is strengthening, with fears it could wash out roads and cause power outages in coming days.

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The New Daily

Western Australia faces prospect of another cyclone barreling down on the northwest

Pilbara and Kimberley regions are looking anxiously out to sea as a strengthening low-pressure system suggests a cyclone is on the way

Daily Mirror

Man obsessed with Bratz dolls snatched girl from tent - then added her mum on Facebook

Terence Darrell Kelly, 37, was sentenced to more than 13 years in prison after abducting four-year-old Cleo from the Western Australian Blowholes campsite in 2021

AAP

Claremont killer TV drama revisits painful chapter

Western Australia's police force were not involved in a soon-to-air dramatisation of the gruelling efforts by detectives to hunt down the Claremont killer.

ABC News

WA liquor laws restricting Good Friday alcohol sales dubbed a 'relic of the past' as reform looms

Western Australia's restrictions on Good Friday alcohol sales need to be modernised, according to the minister tasked with overseeing the state's liquor laws.

The New Daily

Easter trading hours: What’s open and what’s closed

Over the Easter long weekend, some stores and shopping centres will be staying open to get any last minute shopping done.

Reuters

Australian man jailed for 13 years in Cleo Smith kidnapping

A man who kidnapped a four-year-old girl in Western Australia and held her captive for 18 days was sentenced to more than 13 years in prison on Wednesday, in a case that gripped the country.

The Guardian - AU

Terence Kelly jailed for abducting Cleo Smith as court told of family’s ‘immeasurable’ distress

Judge acknowledges turbulent upbringing of Kelly, who was jailed for more than 13 years after pleading guilty to abducting girl at WA campsite

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