Emma Young
Emma Young is a producer, sub-editor and journalist with WAtoday. She is the winner of nine WA Media Awards and the author of two novels published in 2021 and 2023 by Fremantle Press.
- Exclusive
- History
Hunt for source of WA’s Ming Dynasty Buddha reveals new shipwreck mysteries
Shipwreck Hunters on Disney+ has followed the UK’s Antiques Roadshow in featuring a bronze baby Buddha found by two Shark Bay locals wielding metal detectors.
- Emma Young
Latest
Eyes on the prize: Why are the WA Liberals so interested in South Perth’s trees?
Whether the party has its eye on the South Perth mayoral election as well as the next state election is not yet known, but the council’s ructions are deepening.
- Emma Young
From secondhand shops to a sweet peach negroni, this Lego Masters star has Perth sorted
Alex Towler spends his workdays making Lego sculptures. It’s harder than it sounds, and sometimes you need to unwind, stat. Here are his top Perth picks.
- Emma Young
- Updated
- Ningaloo Reef
Record-breaking coral bleaching lays waste to WA’s most prized reefs
A wave of coral mortality has circumnavigated the globe and finally devastated what was previously considered resilient, including the state’s most famous reef.
- Emma Young
Alcoa’s plans the ‘number one extinction threat’ to WA’s black cockatoos
Mining giant Alcoa plans to clear as many as 150,000 potential black cockatoo nesting trees to expand operations throughout the state’s northern jarrah forest.
- Emma Young
- Exclusive
- Local government
Foreshore furore: Bid to save view-blocking trees deepens council division in South Perth
The plot thickens in the leafy riverfront local government of South Perth as six foreshore trees represent a flashpoint in a growing ideological conflict.
- Emma Young
More beauty than beast in new production at Perth’s Crown Theatre
Anticipation and nostalgia builds right from a prologue voiced by Angela Lansbury and opening glimpses of a jaw-dropping set that took 23 trucks to get to Perth.
- Emma Young
Taxpayers face $500 million bill to clean up Chevron’s WA oil field
Even as new environmental impacts from offshore oil and gas facilities are emerging, also emerging is the full extent of clean-up costs – and who is liable.
- Emma Young
‘Death knell’ for Baudin’s black cockatoo as conservation bid rejected
The scientific community says there could be as few as 2500 of the birds left in the wild and asks whether the government is “waiting for zero” to act.
- Emma Young