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Police powers aim to avoid repeat of violent protests

Influences involved in a notorious protest at a defence conference could travel to Western Australia to target this year's edition, officials warn.

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Shark attack kills man at Australia’s Great Barrier Reef in second fatality in two weeks

The attack comes a week after a 38-year-old man was killed while spearfishing near Perth in Western Australia

The Independent UK

Father-of-two named as Australia’s shark attack victim: ‘One-of-a-kind gentleman’

Man, identified as Perth native, leaves behind two young daughters

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Tributes flow for father-of-two killed in shark attack

A father-of-two is being remembered as a genuine soul after he was killed in a shark attack, with his mates praised for bringing his body back to shore.

AAP

AI-camera traffic fines withdrawn after drivers appeal

More than 2000 AI-camera traffic fines for seatbelt misuse have been cancelled in the six months since the technology went live in one state.

AAP

Ownership cutback triggers cross-border firearms flow

Australia's toughest firearm ownership laws have triggered a mass relocation of weapons across state borders as owners scramble to comply with the new rules.

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Legal challenge against Woodside gas project fails

The battle to stop Woodside expanding its gas production continues with a fresh legal challenge in the Supreme Court, as another fails in the Federal Court.

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Woodside’s North West Shelf gas extension is being challenged in the courts. Could it be stopped?

The controversial extension of Woodside’s North West Shelf gas project off Western Australia faces two legal challenges. Both raise significant concerns about the validity of government approvals. One could even seek an injunction, preventing federal environment minister Murray Watt from making a final decision.

The Conversation

WA Government Launches New Inquiry Into E-Scooter Safety Following Perth Man’s Death

The inquiry is considering possible footpath baths and night-time curfews in response to Thanh Phan’s tragic death last month.

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Western Australia has one story about the gas industry. It won’t accept dissent from ‘over east’

Saturday’s state election is unlikely to unseat Labor premier Roger Cook but, with both major parties supporting gas expansion, WA’s record threatens any national progress on emissions

The Guardian - AU

Premier claims WA a ‘renewable energy powerhouse’ but leaked document shows wind and solar projects have ‘stalled’

Exclusive: Government document shows electricity from large-scale renewables has flatlined, with one campaigner saying pipeline has ‘little sign of life’

The Guardian - AU

Mining state moves to become 'conservation superpower'

Endangered species are being given hope as a state better known for mining adds an area equivalent to the size of Tasmania to its conservation estate.

AAP

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.

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Western Australia is tearing up environmental protections – and taking a bet the rest of the country won’t notice

The state Labor government is steering Australia’s climate policy, letting emissions soar unbridled as it paves the way for massive fossil fuel projects

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Conservationists hold fears for the EPA's independence

The Conservation Council says the WA government is in the process of gutting the independence of the state's environmental protection authority.

AAP

Power to the 'energy underclass' as Australia retools

The energy change "can't be about Teslas in teal seats", unions and community leaders tell a forum, with many households struggling to pay their power bills.

The Guardian - AU

Little penguins at risk of vanishing from WA island as once-thriving colony reduced to 120 birds

Exclusive: Study shows Penguin Island population in freefall, sources say, amid pressure from tourism, boat traffic and warming seas

AAP

Plastic coffee cups tamped out in nation-first ban

Caffeine addicts will have to get used to compostable cups or bring their own after Australia's first ban on plastic-lined takeaway coffee cups took effect.

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WA unveils laws to mandate action on climate change

A bill has been introduced to the WA parliament that legally requires a net zero emissions target by 2050 but activists say it lacks substance.

The Guardian - AU

‘We have never seen this’: scientists baffled by behaviour of pilot whales before WA mass stranding

Environment minister says way pod crowded tightly together 150 metres offshore before becoming beached is ‘unique and pretty incredible’

WEKU

Rescue efforts are underway for dozens of whales beached along an Australia coast

The incident is reminiscent of one in September, in which some 200 pilot whales died after a pod stranded itself on the remote west coast of Tasmania, off Australia's southeastern coast.

AAP

Poison-spraying sensor technology to combat feral cats

A nation-first plan to combat feral cats in Western Australia will include the use of new technology to stop the animals from targeting native wildlife.

ABC News

EPA recommends approval of new landfill site for Perth's waste near historic WA town of York

Locals in WA's Wheatbelt fear they will become a dumping ground for Perth's rubbish as the environmental watchdog recommends approving a new landfill site near York.

The Guardian - AU

Austrade forum to promote links with oil giant Saudi Aramco condemned by activists

Environmental groups say the event in Perth to court the biggest polluting oil company of all time is ‘akin to a joint trade show with a tobacco major’

ABC News

Carnarvon residents begin adjusting to WA government's Banned Drinkers Register

Just 12 people in the Gascoyne have been added to the register, and fewer than 300 are on it across Western Australia as a trial of the scheme expands.

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