Claire Moodie
Claire Moodie joined ABC News in Perth as a reporter in 1997 and has since reported for 7.30, produced the state current affairs program Stateline and spent eight years covering Kimberley issues based in Broome.
More than 40 dead sawfish on Gina Rinehart's cattle station fuels concern about water plan
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More than 40 sawfish die in the Fitzroy River catchment, known to be the world's last stronghold for the species.
Topics: rural, beef-cattle, environment, animal-science, rivers, derby-6728, fitzroy-crossing-6765
'The tree just brings out the truth': Police and community join forces against juvenile crime
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Police and residents of Western Australia's biggest Aboriginal community, Bidyadanga, are tackling juvenile crime in a bold experiment that combines "black fella and white fella law".
Topics: crime-prevention, youth, indigenous-culture, lagrange-6725
'Pave paradise and you lose': Call for a toll road at remote, fragile tourist spot
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Visitor numbers at one of Australia's most remote tourist destinations are expected to soar once its notoriously rough 4WD track is sealed, prompting calls to protect it.
Topics: environmental-impact, indigenous-culture, indigenous-policy, aboriginal, tourism, environmental-management, conservation, national-parks, travel-and-tourism, broome-6725, roebuck-6725, darwin-0800, perth-6000, derby-6728
'You just can't do enough': Heartbroken police officer calls for suicide prevention services (photos)
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A police officer who ran a Kimberley outpost, one of the most isolated stations in the country, has made an emotional plea for more consistent mental health services.
Topics: suicide, mental-health, community-and-society, charities-and-community-organisations, police, halls-creek-6770
At 72, blues singer Olive Knight lands 'dream' tour with Hugh Jackman
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When Hugh Jackman kicks off a world tour of his latest stage show in Scotland, a little-known blues singer from an isolated Indigenous community in Western Australia will be joining him on stage.
Topics: music, indigenous-music, arts-and-entertainment, film-movies, fitzroy-crossing-6765, broome-6725, wa, scotland
Sleepless night for couple and puppy bogged for 26 hours in croc-infested area
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A young Kununurra couple survives a 26-hour ordeal after getting bogged on a fishing trip to the remote Keep River National Park.
Topics: emergency-incidents, human-interest, nt, kununurra-6743
Kimberley community devastated by suspected suicide of teenager (photos)
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Two months after the WA Coroner handed down her report on youth suicide in the Kimberley, the community of Balgo is in mourning following the death of an 18-year-old woman.
Topics: suicide, mental-health, halls-creek-6770
'It was creepy how calm they were': The young offenders behind rising youth crime in Broome
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After 40 years in the Kimberley, a long-time resident of Broome says she is calling it quits and leaving town after a terrifying home invasion by three youths —her third break-in in five years.
Topics: crime, crime-prevention, burglary, broome-6725
After childhoods marked by horrific abuse, the 'Joey Girls' are up for one more fight (photos)
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Thousands of people abused as children in state care were offered ex-gratia payments but the payments were halved. Now there's a push for the WA Government to use its budget surplus to "make redress right".
Topics: child-abuse, religion-and-beliefs, royal-commissions, perth-6000, wa, subiaco-6008
Get set for the 'silver dollar' — an economic wave worth $20 trillion that's heading our way (photos)
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Our ageing population has given rise to an enormous market of consumer and employment opportunities that has been growing under the radar of most Australians.
Topics: economic-trends, business-economics-and-finance, older-people, discrimination, work, perth-6000, wa
The 'rampant' discrimination problem flying under the radar in our workplaces
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Despite being a qualified leadership trainer, and with 40 years of experience across various industries, Corinne Brown couldn't get an interview, let alone a job. It's an indication of just how pervasive age discrimination remains in the modern workplace.
Topics: older-people, discrimination, business-economics-and-finance, work, perth-6000, wa
Heat stroke expert urges changes after death of teenage rugby league player
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The death of a promising young rugby league player prompts an emergency medicine expert to call for clearer national heatstroke guidelines for coaches, saying lives are being lost.
Topics: rugby-league, courts-and-trials, death, bentley-6102, wa
Teacher who lost Baptist school job for being gay attacks 'taxpayer-funded discrimination' (photos)
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Craig Campbell attacks a national push for uniform laws allowing religious schools to discriminate against students on the basis of sexuality, fearing it will further isolate vulnerable gay children.
Topics: community-and-society, lgbt, secondary-schools, religion-and-beliefs, perth-6000, wa
A deadly threat the size of a sugar cube could be our next industrial health crisis
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A former mining engineer is speaking out about what could be the biggest occupational health disaster since asbestos — the diesel machinery exhaust fumes churned out by heavy machinery in many of Australia's underground mines.
Topics: air-pollution, mining-rural, mining-industry, health, occupational-health-and-safety, wa, canada, laverton-6440
Bathurst champ Perkins swaps racetrack for outback and returns with buried treasure
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Retired racing car driver Larry Perkins says discovering an explorer's 100-year-old cache of equipment was "a different page of excitement" to winning Bathurst.
'Dragged along into this new world:' Seniors forced to go high-tech whether they like it or not
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Seniors who grew up with face-to-face contact and snail mail are turning up in droves to technology seminars, trying to keep up with the furious pace of digital change.
Topics: adult-education, community-education, internet-culture, social-media, computers-and-technology, internet-technology, personal-computers, australia, perth-6000
From dysfunctional ice addict to 'the best dad I can be'
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If it wasn't for his young son, Michael Noakes would possibly still be in the grips of an ice addiction. Now he's devoting himself to helping regional towns break free from the drug.
Topics: drugs-and-substance-abuse, drug-offences, drug-use, drug-education, albany-6330
'A terrible betrayal of women': Pelvic mesh implant patients want answers from Senate report
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A Senate inquiry report expected tomorrow will highlight the scale of the harm caused by transvaginal mesh implants and the options available for removal.
Topics: women, government-and-politics, health, doctors-and-medical-professionals, medical-procedures, pain, womens-health, australia
A 71-year-old nurse was given $3 million in loans. How?
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Linda Schmidt should be enjoying retirement, but for the past two years she has been crippled by debt, paying off loans she claims the banks should not have approved.
Topics: consumer-finance, consumer-protection, corporate-governance, banking, royal-commissions, perth-6000, australia
DNA match brings child migrant's 60-year search for family to an end
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Paddy Cannon spent most of his life searching for his family, and thanks to DNA technology he's finally found all 67 of them.
Topics: community-and-society, child-abuse, children, fremantle-6160
A bottle of wine that is cheaper than a coffee: The big problem with Perth’s booze barns
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Woolworths, Coles and the discount chain, Aldi, have all faced resistance to new stores as they try to boost market share.
Topics: drugs-and-substance-abuse, alcohol-education, belmont-6104, maylands-6051
'He destroyed my best friend': Woman criticises push to free convicted killer
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A woman whose closest friend was brutally murdered 35 years ago in Perth speaks out against a fresh push to free and exonerate the man who has spent 25 years in prison for the crime.
Topics: murder-and-manslaughter, law-crime-and-justice, judges-and-legal-profession, perth-6000
'Is it really the Christian way?' Teacher who lost job after revealing he was gay speaks out
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Craig Campbell's employment as a relief teacher at a Baptist school was discontinued after he revealed he was in a same-sex relationship.
Topics: lgbt, secondary-schools, religion-and-beliefs, northbridge-6003
Nicole's sad story proves you're never 'too young' to get bowel cancer (photos)
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Nicole Yarran was just 32 and expecting her third child when she was told she had bowel cancer. Now her family hopes her story will persuade others not to overlook the dangers of what was once seen as a disease which only killed older people.
Topics: bowel-and-rectal-cancer, perth-6000
Cassette tapes making comeback
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You may have thought the cassette was dead, relegated to the dustbin of history, but young, independent artists around Australia are resurrecting it.
Topics: music, perth-6000
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