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Aboriginal group launches legal action in push to clean up Wittenoom’s asbestos
Western Australia’s government is facing legal action from an Aboriginal corporation to clean up asbestos contamination from the Wittenoom mine.
- Hamish Hastie
Fears for Ningaloo, World Heritage sites in pushback against Santos’ drilling plans
According to Santos’ own modelling, the “remote” worst-case scenario for hydrocarbon spills could reach as far south as Shark Bay, or a few hundred kilometres south of Timor-Leste.
- Hamish Hastie
- Opinion
- Environmental protection
Australia’s environment minister should be fighting for nature – not faster approvals
Nature is well behind the eight-ball when it comes to industry, and industry-first rhetoric only reinforces that reality.
- Matt Roberts
One of Australia’s worst pests is on the march to the Pilbara. But we have a ‘unique’ chance to stop them
A new study predicts that without containment efforts, cane toads will infest up to 75 per cent of the Pilbara within three decades.
- Holly Thompson
The surging commodity that now accounts for a quarter of WA’s mining workforce
With the price of gold surging to a record high of US$4000 per ounce earlier this month, WAtoday looks at the vital role the precious metal continues to play within the WA economy.
- Michael Philipps
- Updated
- Police
Police turn to tech to identify ‘space debris’ found on outback WA minesite
Experts believe the debris, which was found on a remote mine site’s access road on Saturday, is part of a Chinese rocket.
- Hannah Murphy
WA environment minister questions traditional owner’s ‘cultural authority’ in rock art debate
WA Environment Minister Matthew Swinbourn has labelled Murujuga Aboriginal Corporation member Raelene Cooper “an activist” over her comments on Woodside’s now-approved North West Shelf expansion.
- Hamish Hastie
Murujuga rock art safeguards weakened despite gas hub’s harms
New federal documents also reveal Environment Minister Murray Watt agreed industrial emissions from Woodside were harming the World Heritage-listed rock art in the Pilbara.
- Poppy Johnston
Court says Palmer not a foreign investor and must pay $13m
The man who wanted to “wake up Australia” owes the Commonwealth more than $13 million after an international tribunal put his “foreign investor” claim to bed.
- Jack Gramenz