The Kimberley
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- by Traveller team
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- by Traveller team
Kimberley gas fracking plan will ‘sacrifice global icon’: green groups
Green groups say US-run Black Mountain Energy’s plans to frack in the Kimberley will send gas and profit overseas while “laying waste” to WA’s environment.
- by Peter Milne
Mega-spiders, crocs and a wild bull. Maybe this wasn’t such a good idea
We were too old to trek into the Kimberley, but we did anyway. And I’d do it again in a heartbeat.
- by Anson Cameron
Two pilots die in WA cattle station helicopter tragedy
A 29-year-old man and a 30-year-old man have died after their helicopters collided shortly after take-off at a cattle station in WA’s far north.
- by Rebecca Peppiatt
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Tourism
State swings axe on iconic Kimberley Horizontal Falls experience
All but one tourism operators in the region will not be allowed to take their boats through the falls from 2026 – and the experience will end completely in 2028.
- by Hamish Hastie
A brutal landscape blessed with the most pristine places to get wet
Full of red rock and clear water, this brutal, arid landscape is replete with an oversupply of that simplest human luxury – natural swimming pools.
- by James Woodford
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Industrial relations
Pilots’ strike cancelled as cyclone threat gathers strength off WA coast
The cyclone, anticipated to be a category 2 system, is expected to make landfall on Saturday.
- by Hamish Hastie
Dutton defies Border Force rebuke as more asylum seekers discovered
A second group of asylum seekers has been discovered in remote Western Australia, adding to Anthony Albanese’s border security headache.
- by Lisa Visentin
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Asylum seekers
Police, Border Force investigate boat arrival in WA as Sovereign Borders commander warns Dutton
About 30 Pakistani nationals were spotted by locals near the remote community of Beagle Bay, about 100 kilometres north of Broome, on Friday morning.
- by Hamish Hastie, Angus Thompson and James Massola
From Black Mountain to a molehill: Kimberley fracking hopeful de-lists
The US-led company wanted to use the controversial fracking drilling technique, was fined for greenwashing and once considered making bitcoin in WA’s Kimberley.
- by Peter Milne
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