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Emergency accommodation is being erected in Kalgoorlie-Boulder for about 80 residents from the remote Aboriginal community of Tjuntjuntjara who have been stranded due to widespread flooding.
Topics: indigenous-aboriginal-and-torres-strait-islander, aboriginal, emergency-incidents, floods, weather, housing, charities-and-community-organisations, volunteers, community-and-society, kalgoorlie-6430, boulder-6432
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| UpdatedSupplies are being airlifted into Tjuntjuntjara as the remote WA Aboriginal community remains cut-off due to widespread flooding.
Topics: aboriginal, regional, regional-development, weather, rainfall, deserts, kalgoorlie-6430, ceduna-5690, boulder-6432
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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: australian-football-league, sport, regional, boulder-6432
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Topics: australian-football-league, sport, regional, boulder-6432
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A 21-month-old toddler who died at Kalgoorlie hospital while in the care of WA's Department for Child Protection did not have an allocated case manager at the time, a coronial inquest hears.
Topics: courts-and-trials, babies, child-care, children---toddlers, kalgoorlie-6430, boulder-6432, perth-6000
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The WA Country Health Service says more than 1,500 children have been vaccinated since an emergency roll-out began this week.
Topics: meningococcal-disease, adolescent-health, health, government-and-politics, health-administration, kalgoorlie-6430, coolgardie-6429, kambalda-6442, boulder-6432
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| UpdatedHealth authorities take the unprecedented step of offering free vaccinations against the potentially lethal W strain of meningococcal to young children and teenagers in the WA Goldfields in a bid to prevent an outbreak turning into a crisis.
Topics: meningococcal-disease, diseases-and-disorders, regional, child-health-and-behaviour, government-and-politics, community-and-society, kalgoorlie-6430, coolgardie-6429, kambalda-6442, boulder-6432
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An internal police review into how one of four boys accused of damaging a school in WA's Goldfields was bitten by a dog concludes the attack complied with guidelines and the law.
Topics: police, crime, kalgoorlie-6430, boulder-6432
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| UpdatedMPs from both sides of politics accuse WA Police Commissioner Karl O'Callaghan of provoking racial tensions in Kalgoorlie after he referenced a controversial cartoon by Bill Leak.
Topics: indigenous-aboriginal-and-torres-strait-islander, police, aboriginal, discrimination, perth-6000, wa, kalgoorlie-6430, boulder-6432
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Kalgoorlie-Boulder Community High School is making rapid progress in addressing behavioural problems, according to education officials who say there remains no quick fix amid wider community issues.
Topics: education, secondary-schools, schools, states-and-territories, antisocial-behaviour, kalgoorlie-6430, wa, boulder-6432
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A life-changing spinal injury from a roof fall fails to stop quadriplegic Kalgoorlie-Boulder councillor Mick McKay, who is set to make a triumphant return to his job and his community.
Topics: disabilities, human-interest, local-government, kalgoorlie-6430, boulder-6432, wa
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| UpdatedLocals at the Kalgoorlie Cup are hopeful but not certain tomorrow's funeral for a 14-year-old Aboriginal boy, whose death sparked a race riot in the West Australian goldfields town, will help them move on.
Topics: courts-and-trials, indigenous-aboriginal-and-torres-strait-islander, death, aboriginal, kalgoorlie-6430, boulder-6432
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Topics: prisons-and-punishment, crime, boulder-6432
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Inmate Dylan Doughty escaped Eastern Goldfields Regional Prison by tying his sheets together and scaling the prison fence, investigation reveals.
Topics: prisons-and-punishment, crime, boulder-6432
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Topics: prisons-and-punishment, crime, boulder-6432
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| UpdatedSeven people are charged over the Kalgoorlie riots, which erupted earlier in the week following the death of 14-year-old Aboriginal boy Elijah Doughty.
Topics: murder-and-manslaughter, indigenous-aboriginal-and-torres-strait-islander, aboriginal, perth-6000, kalgoorlie-6430, boulder-6432
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| UpdatedRiot police were forced to move in outside the Kalgoorlie Courthouse in Western Australia's Goldfields when a protest over the alleged manslaughter of an Aboriginal teenager turned violent.
Topics: police, crime, murder-and-manslaughter, kalgoorlie-6430, boulder-6432
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| UpdatedA dozen officers are injured and several arrests are made in Kalgoorlie, Western Australia, after riot police were forced to move in when a protest over the death of an Aboriginal teenager turned violent.
Topics: courts-and-trials, murder-and-manslaughter, kalgoorlie-6430, boulder-6432
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| UpdatedA 55-year-old man is charged with manslaughter over the death of a 14-year-old boy in Western Australia's Goldfields
Topics: law-crime-and-justice, boulder-6432
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| UpdatedTwo men who failed to return from a camel-shooting trip are forced to walk about 50 kilometres to get help after their car becomes bogged in Western Australia's Goldfields.
Topics: missing-person, police, emergency-incidents, kalgoorlie-6430, boulder-6432
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Topics: unions, mining-industry, boulder-6432
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Topics: unions, mining-industry, boulder-6432
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Topics: unions, mining-industry, boulder-6432
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The AWU says the purpose of the Fatal Accident and Death Fund "no longer exists.'
Topics: mining-industry, industrial-relations, unions, workplace, kalgoorlie-6430, boulder-6432