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| UpdatedAustralia's winter grain harvest is now officially the nation's largest for every single mainland state, says forecaster ABARES.
Topics: agricultural-prices, grain, sydney-2000, port-pirie-5540, dubbo-2830, horsham-3400, bunbury-6230, forbes-2871
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Country towns brace for more wet and wild weather as record rains fall across WA.
Topics: storm-event, storm-disaster, photography, regional, esperance-6450, albany-6330, williams-6391, wagin-6315, ravensthorpe-6346, boddington-6390, kalgoorlie-6430, narrogin-6312, bunbury-6230
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| UpdatedDownpours throughout the Wheatbelt and South West regions of Western Australia cause widespread flooding and force some residents to evacuate.
Topics: weather, gosnells-6110, bunbury-6230
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West Australian consumers could face huge power price hikes in the coming years unless the State Government starts to factor in the exponential growth of renewable energy, a new study finds.
Topics: solar-energy, electricity-energy-and-utilities, energy, states-and-territories, bunbury-6230, busselton-6280, wa
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A photographer speaking to people sleeping rough in Bunbury and Busselton out of curiosity leads to a photo exhibition about homelessness in the South West, and the plight of those affected by it.
Topics: homelessness, photography, arts-and-entertainment, bunbury-6230, busselton-6280
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Goldfields clubs flag concerns with ineffectiveness, lack of flexibility of new player payment rules for 2017 footy season.
Topics: australian-football-league, sport, regional, kalgoorlie-6430, kambalda-6442, karratha-6714, geraldton-6530, albany-6330, bunbury-6230, broome-6725, esperance-6450
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| UpdatedOne of the biggest native title deals in Australian history is struck a blow by a shock decision in the Federal Court, which found the agreement could not be registered because some Aboriginal representatives refused to sign off on it.
Topics: government-and-politics, native-title, indigenous-aboriginal-and-torres-strait-islander, wa, perth-6000, albany-6330, bunbury-6230
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| UpdatedHeywire's trailblazing alumni prepare to drop in to the annual Regional Youth Summit, launching on the weekend.
Topics: rural-youth, rural, regional, community-and-society, youth, abc, information-and-communication, government-and-politics, indigenous-aboriginal-and-torres-strait-islander, australia, yaraka-4702, canberra-2600, kalgoorlie-6430, albany-6330, bunbury-6230, geraldton-6530, broadbeach-4218, mount-isa-4825, smithton-7330, moruya-2537, tennant-creek-0860, birdsville-4482
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Western Australian wildlife rangers search for a bottlenose dolphin in the South-West which appears to have had a T-shirt or singlet deliberately pulled over its head.
Topics: animals, conservation, bunbury-6230
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| UpdatedA former director of a Bunbury property management company is jailed for at least 16 months, after stealing more than $500,000 from the family business.
Topics: courts-and-trials, bunbury-6230
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| UpdatedA mentally ill man pleads guilty to sparking a 12-hour siege in Bunbury, during which a hostage was threatened with a spear gun, chained around the neck and falsely told he was going to be blown up.
Topics: courts-and-trials, police-sieges, armed-robbery, bunbury-6230, perth-6000
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| UpdatedPauline Hanson concedes it will be tough to keep her planned field of 60 One Nation candidates on message during the WA election campaign, but says it will be up to voters to make their own decision at the polling booth.
Topics: one-nation, elections, states-and-territories, pauline-hanson, bunbury-6230, perth-6000, wa
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| UpdatedEuropean settlement has altered Australia's environment in ways we're only now beginning to understand, and nowhere is that more clear than in WA's South West.
Topics: environment, environmental-impact, environmental-policy, environmental-management, climate-change, forestry, rainfall, drought, bunbury-6230
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| UpdatedThe WA Nationals want to use funds from their proposed state mining tax to resurrect a long-touted plan to connect Perth's passenger rail network to the regional city of Bunbury.
Topics: government-and-politics, rail-transport, bunbury-6230, mandurah-6210, wa
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| UpdatedAfter a rare brain disease took the life of John Olsen's partner, he honours her memory by hiking across the entire country in a bid to raise money for a cure.
Topics: diseases-and-disorders, health, wa, perth-6000, bunbury-6230
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Australia's first Aboriginal grower group has been officially established by DAFWA.
Topics: aboriginal, agricultural-crops, crop-harvesting, vegetables, land-management, land-rights, native-title, moore-river-national-park-6503, esperance-6450, albany-6330, bunbury-6230, perth-6000
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Policing in Western Australia to have a scientific basis as video trial nears end
Topics: research, bunbury-6230, perth-6000
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A man is charged with throwing a brick at a firefighter who was battling a blaze at a house in Bunbury, south of Perth.
Topics: crime, fires, bunbury-6230