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Redbacks edge closer to win over Shield leaders WA

Sheffield Shield holders Western Australia need 206 runs to win with five wickets in hand after South Australia had the better of the day four opening session.

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Redbacks set massive Shield test for high-flying WA

South Australia have four sessions to bowl out Sheffield Shield leaders Western Australia, set 468 for victory, and secure a famous win in Adelaide.

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Western Australia's 1929 centenary celebrations were full of colonial pride, but festivities went awry

A poetry competition whose entries were so bad the judges got legal advice and a fireworks display "overrun by hooligans" were two of the ways Western Australia marked 100 years as a colony.

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Fears for Fitzgerald River National Park native species as bushfire burns UNESCO biosphere

A Western Australian botanist says some native plants in the Fitzgerald River National Park are not rejuvenating from historical bushfires, and believes more research is required into the impact of all fires, including prescribed burns.

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WA beach package find adds to AFP investigation after other bags found on capsized boat

Police are examining the contents of a black bag found washed up on a beach on Western Australia's south coast.

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SA make steady start in Shield clash as WA stars return

South Australia have lost just one wicket during the opening session of the key Sheffield Shield match-up against a bolstered Western Australia side.

AAP

Mining giant faces charges over harassment documents

Western Australia's workplace safety regulator is prosecuting Fortescue Metal Group for allegedly failing to provide documents relating to harassment cases.

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Legal dispute over youth detention class action

Western Australia's government has flagged it will need months to prepare its legal response to claims of youth detainee mistreatment aired in a class action.

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BHP halts Western Australia iron ore operations for a day after worker dies

The world's largest miner BHP Group has suspended its Western Australian iron ore operations for a day after a worker was struck by a train at its Port Hedland iron ore facility, it said on Wednesday.

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Thieves swipe rare orchids from WA conservation garden

Up to 900 of Western Australia's rarest orchids have been stolen from a conservation garden in a devastating blow for two species teetering on the brink.

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Pilots miraculously walk away unharmed after Boeing 737 crash in Western Australia

‘The fact that two pilots walked away from the accident is simply amazing,’ says aviation analyst

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Pilots survive Boeing 737 water bomber crash while fighting bushfire in Western Australia

Investigators to examine wreckage and interview two pilots who were responding to a bushfire in the Fitzgerald River national park

The Guardian - AU

Miracle survival for pilots in 737 air tanker crash

A probe has been launched into a crash involving a 737 air tanker on the way to a bushfire in southern Western Australia.

AAP

Two pilots survive after 737 large air tanker crashes in Fitzgerald River National Park while battling bushfires

The pilots managed to free themselves from the wreckage after the plane came down in the Fitzgerald River National Park on WA's south coast yesterday afternoon.

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Girl killed in shark attack on Australia's west coast

A 16-year-old girl died on Saturday after being mauled by a shark in a river in Western Australia's state capital Perth after she jumped in the water to swim with a pod of dolphins.

Daily Mirror

Hero desperately tried to save girl, 16, killed by shark while jetskiing with friends

A group of teenagers were jetskiing along the Swan River in western Australia, when they reportedly jumped in to swim with dolphins - leading to one being brutally attacked and killed by a shark

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Shark kills teen in Western Australia

A 16-year-old girl was killed on Saturday after being mauled by a shark as she swam in a river in Western Australia, officials said.

AAP

Bushfire emergency warning in southwest WA

Residents in parts of the shire of Nannup in Western Australia's southwest have been told a fast-moving bushfire is threatening lives and homes.

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What the heck was that radioactive capsule emergency in Western Australia all about?

It began as the scarcely believable tale of a very tiny and very lost radioactive "Tic Tac" in the Australian desert, and ended up a planet-sized news story.

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WA eyes March 2024 end date for plastic coffee cups

Non-compostable takeaway coffee cups will be banned from sale in Western Australia by March 2024 as the state government cracks down on single-use plastics.

Reuters

Australia's radioactive capsule: searching scientists were quietly confident

The task was daunting: find a tiny radioactive capsule that had fallen off a truck somewhere in Western Australia's vast outback sometime in January.

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Trend of banning mobile phones in Australian high schools 'not backed by research,' expert warns

NSW Opposition Leader Chris Minns on Thursday praised South Australia for joining Tasmania, Victoria and Western Australia in banning the use of devices during school hours.

Reuters

Australia's radioactive capsule en route to storage as investigation begins

A lost radioactive capsule found after a search along a 1,400 km stretch of the arid Western Australian outback is due to arrive in Perth on Thursday evening as investigators work on piecing together just how it fell from a truck.

AAP

Radioactive capsule site cleared of contamination

Authorities say there is no need to remediate the area where a dangerous radioactive capsule was found after falling off a truck in remote Western Australia.

The Conversation

The world’s oldest fossils or oily gunk? New research suggests these 3.5 billion-year-old rocks don’t contain signs of life

The Pilbara region of Western Australia is home to one of the most ancient surviving pieces of Earth’s crust, which has been geologically unchanged since its creation some 3.5 billion years ago.

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