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| UpdatedFormer One Nation candidate Dane Sorensen takes aim at Pauline Hanson's chief of staff James Ashby.
Topics: one-nation, political-parties, government-and-politics, elections, geraldton-6530, karratha-6714
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Despite having Australia's worst-performing economy, WA communities will get nothing from the new $220-million regional jobs and investment package.
Topics: regional-development, federal-parliament, federal---state-issues, kalgoorlie-6430, broome-6725, geraldton-6530, karratha-6714, albany-6330, esperance-6450, perth-6000
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The City of Karratha's mayor Peter Long is the only Western Australian to join the first board of the CRC for Developing Northern Australia.
Topics: rural, karratha-6714
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Topics: local-government, karratha-6714
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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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Topics: police, karratha-6714
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A high-ranking police officer in WA's Pilbara says Australians have a "militant" response to the prospect of alcohol restrictions.
Topics: crime, police, karratha-6714
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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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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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Topics: elections, karratha-6714
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| UpdatedA Western Australian Liberal candidate breaks party ranks to rebuke comments by his leader, critical of a campaign by mining companies against a proposed iron ore tax increase.
Topics: elections, liberals, mining-industry, karratha-6714
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| UpdatedThe WA Nationals want to use $610 million in revenue from their proposed tax increase on big iron ore miners to boost regional tourism and diversify the state's economy, following the end of the mining boom.
Topics: elections, rural-tourism, tax, nationals, karratha-6714, perth-6000, wa
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| UpdatedWest Australian Premier Colin Barnett hits out at the mining lobby's public campaign against Nationals leader Brendon Grylls and his controversial proposed iron ore tax.
Topics: states-and-territories, tax, mining-industry, elections, perth-6000, wa, karratha-6714
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| UpdatedLabor and Liberal parties label controversial comments about single mothers by a One Nation candidate as "offensive and rude", but decline to rule out striking a preference deal with the party ahead of the state election.
Topics: elections, alp, one-nation, states-and-territories, perth-6000, karratha-6714, wa
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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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| UpdatedThe wet season is quickly turning into one of the best on record for many parts of Western Australia's north.
Topics: rural, beef-cattle, rainfall, kununurra-6743, karratha-6714
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| UpdatedOne Nation's candidate for the seat of Pilbara in the West Australian election stands by an article he wrote saying taxpayers should not support single mums who are "too lazy" to attract and hold a mate.
Topics: one-nation, elections, karratha-6714, wa, perth-6000
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Topics: mining-rural, karratha-6714
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US President Donald Trump's trillion-dollar infrastructure plan drives confidence in WA's mining industry.
Topics: mining-rural, mining-industry, gold, copper, karratha-6714
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| UpdatedPeople in parts of the Western Australia's Pilbara region are given the all clear regarding a tropical low, which may still develop into a cyclone but will not affect the coastline.
Topics: weather, cyclones, emergency-planning, karratha-6714, barrow-island-6712, onslow-6710, dampier-6713, whim-creek-6718, wickham-6720
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| UpdatedLake Argyle is overflowing, rivers are in flood, and there's a potential cyclone looming off the WA coast.
Topics: rural, water-supply, cyclone, dams-and-reservoirs, kununurra-6743, karratha-6714
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| UpdatedPeople from Port Hedland to Ningaloo in Western Australia's Pilbara region are being warned to brace for a possible cyclone as a tropical low bears down on the area.
Topics: weather, cyclone, wa, karratha-6714, barrow-island-6712, onslow-6710, dampier-6713, whim-creek-6718, wickham-6720
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One Nation candidate for the Pilbara David Archibald speaking to ABC North West WA's Joseph Dunstan
Topics: political-parties, karratha-6714
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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