Ningaloo Reef
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Gas
Rare glimpse at stunning reef beside Woodside’s gas-drilling ambitions
Scott Reef is, in the words of author Tim Winton, the last “unspoiled” clear-water coral reef in Australia. It’s also near the site of a major gas-drilling proposal.
- by Bianca Hall
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Environmental protection
It’s time this west coast chart-topper got the fame it deserves
It was 1975. Queen was competing with Pink Floyd and Led Zeppelin in the charts. And in WA, a new agency was compiling its own “the best of the best” list.
- by Paul Gamblin
I lapped Australia in a caravan and signed a book deal in the same year
As I set off on the adventure of a lifetime, I never dreamed my writing career was also set to soar.
- by Claire van Ryn
Tim Winton’s Ningaloo documentary launches in Exmouth
More than 100 Exmouth locals have gathered for the launch of Tim Winton’s three-part ‘love letter’ documentary Ningaloo Nyinggulu, airing on the ABC on Tuesday.
- by Emma Young
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Literature
Why Tim Winton is happy he never moved to Melbourne
In an exclusive interview, the author tells of 40 years spent helping develop and protect Australian publishing, and where he lives has everything to do with it.
- by Emma Young
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Space
‘Absolutely stunning’: Total solar eclipse wows Exmouth as moon and sun put on a show
Exmouth went dark at 11.29am this morning as the moon’s path of totality cross WA’s North West Cape.
- by Hamish Hastie and Holly Thompson
Woodside’s toxic risk oil tower slowly sinking near Ningaloo Reef
A steel tower likely containing toxic chemicals could sink to the seabed after its removal was delayed for four years by Woodside’s lack of maintenance.
- by Peter Milne
The WA coastal town bracing for 18,000 visitors - 10 times its population
The first inkling of the pending influx came about three years ago when an American woman tried to book the entire caravan park. But authorities have a more practical concern, urgently trying to bolster the town’s sewerage capacity.
- by Hamish Hastie
Tim Winton on a blue groper, a novel – and his life-imitates-art moment
With his novel, Blueback, now a movie, the author reflects on how his love of the sea has evolved – and what he’s prepared to do to protect it.
- by Tim Winton
‘Shark cams’ reveal Ningaloo sea turtles freeze to escape predators’ gaze
Scientists attached cameras to the dorsal fins of sharks at Ningaloo Reef in WA and altered the resulting vision to see through the “eye of the tiger”.
- by Peter de Kruijff
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Marine life
Woodside and fishing lobby planned to dump structure with toxic chemicals near Ningaloo
A plan to use old Woodside equipment for an artificial reef near WA’s Ningaloo Reef in WA could have endangered the health of people who ate fish caught there.
- by Peter Milne
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