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The changing mining industry has led to significant job losses in Port Hedland, where the battle for Brendon Grylls' Pilbara seat is intensifying amid a debate about his proposed mining tax.
Topics: elections, political-parties, mining-industry, port-hedland-6721, south-hedland-6722, karratha-6714, newman-6753
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| UpdatedThe most remote Aboriginal community in Australia helps young people grow through the power of fashion.
Topics: indigenous-aboriginal-and-torres-strait-islander, fashion, broome-6725, alice-springs-0870, port-hedland-6721
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| UpdatedA ban on the sale of takeaway full-strength beer and pre-mixed alcohol is part of a raft of new restrictions being sought by police in Port Hedland.
Topics: alcohol, police, port-hedland-6721
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Regions that offer adequate amenities for residents have the best chance of converting long-distance commuters into the sort of new residents who can sustain regional prosperity.
Topics: mining-rural, mining-industry, family, family-and-children, regional-development, regional, community-and-society, karratha-6714, port-hedland-6721, mackay-4740, rockhampton-4700, roxby-downs-5725, weipa-4874, newman-6753
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| UpdatedA tropical low has delivered the second wettest day on record for the city of Karratha in WA's north.
Topics: floods, rainfall, weather, lifestyle-and-leisure, travel-and-tourism, karratha-6714, broome-6725, exmouth-6707, onslow-6710, port-hedland-6721, roebourne-6718
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| UpdatedBHP's port expansion is put on hold as the WA environment watchdog reviews regulations for dust control in the Pilbara town of Port Hedland.
Topics: mining-industry, mining-environmental-issues, air-pollution, iron-ore, port-hedland-6721
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| UpdatedWestern Australia could go from one lithium mine to seven over the next 18 months, opening up hundreds of millions of dollars of revenue.
Topics: mining-industry, industry, business-economics-and-finance, consumer-electronics, electronics, kalgoorlie-6430, boulder-6432, port-hedland-6721, southern-cross-6426, greenbushes-6254, ravensthorpe-6346, china
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Topics: beef-cattle, port-hedland-6721
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| UpdatedMining giant BHP Billiton is accused of "bullying its staff" by displaying anti-mining tax advertisements on employee computers and staff rooms in Port Hedland.
Topics: mining-rural, port-hedland-6721
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Comments by a Western Australian One Nation candidate attacking "lazy" single mothers hark back to the pre-World War II era and are not acceptable, a peak national body says.
Topics: government-and-politics, one-nation, political-parties, port-hedland-6721, karratha-6714, wa
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| UpdatedPauline Hanson's One Nation party has confirmed a controversial geologist will run against WA Nationals leader Brendon Grylls.
Topics: political-parties, elections, indigenous-policy, climate-change, science-and-technology, community-and-society, indigenous-aboriginal-and-torres-strait-islander, perth-6000, karratha-6714, port-hedland-6721, newman-6753, wa
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BHP Billiton says it produced a record amount of iron ore at its mines in Western Australia for the second half of 2016 due to the ramp-up of its Jimblebar mine in the Pilbara.
Topics: business-economics-and-finance, company-news, economic-trends, coal, iron-ore, mining-industry, australia, port-hedland-6721, wa
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Surging iron ore prices and increased production drive Rio Tinto's share price to an almost two-year high.
Topics: mining-industry, iron-ore, copper, coal, australia, wa, port-hedland-6721
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| UpdatedThe Federal Government remains tight-lipped about whether it will expand the use of a cashless welfare card, amid more reports of people dodging the trial scheme and the restrictions it imposes.
Topics: welfare, federal-government, local-government, aboriginal, alcohol, broome-6725, wyndham-6740, kununurra-6743, ceduna-5690, port-hedland-6721
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| UpdatedPilbara MP Brendon Grylls throws his support behind a bid to make Port Hedland the next trial site for the cashless welfare card, just days after police complained about a spike in alcohol-fuelled violence.
Topics: welfare, federal---state-issues, federal-government, states-and-territories, aboriginal, indigenous-aboriginal-and-torres-strait-islander, alcohol, port-hedland-6721, ceduna-5690, wyndham-6740, kununurra-6743, south-hedland-6722, wa
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Police in WA's Pilbara believe up to $300,000 worth of Coles vouchers handed out by Aboriginal corporations may have contributed to the worst spike in alcohol-fuelled violence they have seen in South Hedland in more than two years.
Topics: alcohol, assault, domestic-violence, police, port-hedland-6721, south-hedland-6722, wa
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Western Australia's peak recreational fishing group lodges its opposition to scrapping size limits for commercial fishers on some species, such as red emperor.
Topics: fishing-aquaculture, port-hedland-6721
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A night of drunken violence ahead of Cyclone Yvette that included the stabbing of a 17-year-old girl by a 14-year-old with scissors leads to temporary liquor restrictions in Port and South Hedland for the second time in a week.
Topics: alcohol, police, community-and-society, port-hedland-6721, south-hedland-6722
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| UpdatedA huge storm front filled with red dust is looming over Western Australia's Pilbara as a tropical cyclone expected to make landfall over the Christmas weekend hovers off the coast.
Topics: cyclone, weather, port-hedland-6721, south-hedland-6722, wa, broome-6725
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| UpdatedA tropical low off Western Australia's Pilbara coast officially develops into the first cyclone of the season, with forecasters saying could hit land over the Christmas weekend.
Topics: weather, cyclone, broome-6725, wyndham-6740, port-hedland-6721, karratha-6714, kununurra-6743, wa
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| UpdatedWA's north is facing the threat of heavy rain and flash flooding in the lead-up to Christmas, as two tropical lows hovering off the coast risk turning into low-level cyclones.
Topics: cyclones, cyclone, weather, karratha-6714, port-hedland-6721, south-hedland-6722, broome-6725, wa
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| UpdatedThe West Australian coroner has handed down her findings after an inquiry into the death of Yamaji woman Ms Dhu in police custody in the state's Pilbara. This is how the case unfolded.
Topics: black-deaths-in-custody, indigenous-aboriginal-and-torres-strait-islander, police, courts-and-trials, port-hedland-6721, south-hedland-6722, wa, perth-6000
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The Chamber of Minerals and Energy pulls an anti-mining tax television advertisement after one of the participants complained he was misrepresented.
Topics: mining-industry, advertising-and-marketing, mining-rural, government-and-politics, iron-ore, perth-6000, wa, port-hedland-6721
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The chief executive of a Canadian-based environmental firm says he has a solution to Port Hedland's dust problems and plans to launch a dust control trial within months.
Topics: mining-industry, occupational-health-and-safety, port-hedland-6721
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| UpdatedThe Shooters and Fishers party in WA confirms it will run "a very switched-on lady" in the form of Karratha councillor Fiona White-Hartig against Nationals leader Brendaon Grylls in the state seat of Pilbara at the March election.
Topics: elections, port-hedland-6721