The Latest Breaking News from Kununurra

Eyes of the energy world on local vanadium battery tech

Australia's vanadium deposits could displace world supplies and solve the challenge of off-grid energy needs as a remote community trials homegrown technology.

AAP · Nov 30, 2024

‘An Aussie icon’: burnt-out car wreck begins 4,356km journey across Western Australia

The 1975 Mazda ute has been transformed into a wall-of-sound instrument and canvas for Gija stories as part of a 12-stop production travelling from the Kimberley to Perth

The Guardian - AU · Aug 28, 2023

Man and child injured after bull escapes, charges through crowd at Kununurra rodeo

Two people are injured after a bull escaped from an enclosure at Kununurra Rodeo on Saturday night, terrifying spectators.

ABC News · May 29, 2023

East Kimberley leaders call for federal investigation into impact of Cashless Debit Card's removal

East Kimberley leaders say the federal government needs to examine how struggling Indigenous families are coping without the income management scheme.

ABC News · Apr 20, 2023

'We haven't got anybody': new research reveals how major parties are dying in remote Australia

On the eve of the 2019 federal election, a Labor Party politician made a panicked phone call to someone they knew in Kununurra, a remote town of over 5,000 people in Western Australia. As the person later recalled to us during an interview for our research, the conversation went something…

The Conversation · Apr 4, 2023

Calls for state government, Coles to learn from 'shortcomings' after Kununurra food crisis

An outback shire president has called on his state government and Coles to learn from "shortcomings" in their response to a food crisis earlier this month.

ABC News · Mar 22, 2023

Lack of fresh food on Kimberley supply flight Coles' fault, government says, after days of empty shelves

Premier Mark McGowan has blamed a supermarket giant for a lack of promised fresh food sent on a military plane to the flood-isolated East Kimberley.

ABC News · Mar 9, 2023

Australian Defence Force to help re-supply East Kimberley amid food shortage due to NT flooding

Roads closed by flooding in the NT have prevented fresh food deliveries to the region for days, leaving locals to "get what you can, and hope for the best".

ABC News · Mar 8, 2023

Evacuees wait to return to flood-hit NT remote communities as transport links severed by rising rivers

Residents of several remote communities say they still do not know when they will be allowed to return home, as flooded transport links cause empty supermarket shelves across the border in Western Australia.

ABC News · Mar 5, 2023

The Australian towns where the nearest bank branch is nearly 1,000km away

With nearly 100 regional branches either closed or soon to close, getting to the bank is becoming increasingly difficult for Australians in remote areas

The Guardian - AU · Feb 28, 2023