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New research has cast doubts on the DBCA’s prescribed burning regime.
Bushfires

‘Long-term pain’: Scientists warn against WA’s prescribed burn regime

Is it time the government rethinks its prescribed burning practices? New research says it’s making forests more flammable, not less, but the state stands firm.

  • by Sarah Brookes
Aboriginal rock art, or petroglyph of a sea turtle on the Burrup Peninsula.
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Indigenous culture

Leaked letter reveals concerns about WA’s next world heritage site

  • by Hamish Hastie and Peter Milne
Devastated daughters release statement on Gooseberry Hill stabbing attack
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Crime

Devastated daughters release statement on Gooseberry Hill stabbing attack

  • by Rebecca Peppiatt and Heather McNeill
The Perth suburbs about to join the million-dollar club
Property prices

The Perth suburbs about to join the million-dollar club

  • by Sarah Brookes
Supply chain shortages caused empty supermarket shelves during the pandemic.
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Shipping

Get ready for empty shelves again as supply chain crisis looms for WA

  • by Sarah Brookes
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Politics

WA Premier Roger Cook.
Roger Cook

WA’s premier on the housing crisis, stamp duty … and cash-for-access dinners

Ahead of his anniversary as premier, WAtoday grilled Roger Cook on some of the more uncomfortable issues facing the government he’ll take to the next election.

  • by Hamish Hastie
Aboriginal rock art, or petroglyph of a sea turtle on the Burrup Peninsula.
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Indigenous culture

Leaked letter reveals internal concerns about science on Australia’s next world heritage site

Rock art monitoring in Western Australia’s north was being done without “integrity, diligence or governance”, a Murujuga Aboriginal Corporation employee wrote.

  • by Hamish Hastie and Peter Milne
Infected trees are cut down in Kings Park.
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Environmental protection

Perth Zoo, Rottnest trees felled as borer spreads through 88 suburbs

  • by Hamish Hastie
The money is spent on advertising in regional papers.
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WA budget

WA government spends $2 million to prop up ailing regional newspapers

  • by Hamish Hastie
Woodside, the largest Australian oil and gas company, is doubling the size of its Pluto gas plant near Karratha to process gas from the $16.5 billion Scarborough field.
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Environmental activism

Whitby removes former Chevron employee from Karratha gas plant appeal

  • by Hamish Hastie

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