ABC Kimberley

20/08/2025

What was the fog like at your place this morning? Thanks to Minty for this pic from Beagle Bay.

20/08/2025

Two peak Kimberley organisations have celebrated their 40th year anniversary at a festival held in Ngumpan Aboriginal Community last week.

Over the last four decades, the Kimberley Aboriginal Law and Culture Centre (KALACC) and the Kimberley Language Resource Centre (KLRC) have played a key role in advocating for Aboriginal law, culture and language in the region.

Chief Executive of KALACC Peter Murray said it was important to celebrate the hard work of Elders throughout the decades.

"It's time for us young leaders to stand up and keep carrying the baton at a high level especially around cultural activities and programs," he said.

"We want to celebrate with a lot of achievement to acknowledge our Elders that have worked with KALACC, and fought so hard for us and the ones that are present now and still with us and still having that encouragement to move forward for the next 20 years," Mr Murra said.

KLRC co-chairperson Janella Issac said it was "very exciting" to celebrate 40 years of the its crucial work in supporting Aboriginal languages in the Kimberley.

"It's a big role to carry to help keep language going and keep it awake in the Kimberley," she said.

"Just carrying that brought so many memories and reflections from the Elders that we've lost and just reflecting on the work they've done and how they've led the way for the language space in the Kimberley in the past 40 years,

"It's very exciting, a bit emotional, all these different emotions rolled into one."

Dancers and musicians from across the Kimberley and around the country performed at the festival to celebrate the anniversary.

20/08/2025

KUNUNURRA COTTON

For the first time in 10 years, a container ship has docked at Wyndham.

It means Kununurra's cotton can now be grown, processed, and shipped all from the Kimberley.

Cambridge Gulf Limited operates and manages the Wyndham Port. CEO Tony Chafer said 200 empty containers are in and ready for cotton exports.

20/08/2025

The Australian Border Force has destroyed two foreign fishing boats off Western Australia's northern coastline.

Authorities say ten Indonesian fishers were picked up in two boats over the weekend of August 8, near Ashmore Reef and the Heywood Shoals off the Kimberley coast.

A total of 250 kilograms of salt used to preserve catch and a fishing equipment was seized.

The crew members have been transferred to Darwin.

No charges have yet been laid.

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19/08/2025

A lack of supervisors and overlapping regulatory bodies is making it challenging for internationally trained doctors to become GPs.

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Australia's rural health crisis is deepening as internationally trained doctors face delays, with bureaucracy and lack of available supervisors blocking workforce solutions.

19/08/2025

Beautiful days out at Coconut Well, on the outskirts of Broome! Thanks to Daniel for sending this through.

📸: Daniel Delgago

19/08/2025

Mobile phones will be banned in WA childcare centres and more money provided for safety checks after a snap one-month review into WA's sector found compliance issues are on the rise.

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Mobile phones will be banned in WA childcare centres and more money provided for safety checks after a snap one-month review into WA's sector found compliance issues are on the rise.

19/08/2025

🏎🏍The Broome Motocross Club is set to receive more than $75,000 to extend its existing track and install a new dirt kart track🏎🏍

The grant is part 20 funded by the WA Government's community sporting infrastructure project.

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19/08/2025

3PM UPDATE:
Guests at El Questro's Emma Gorge Resort have been evacuated and the resort has closed, as a precaution. An El Questro spokesperson said while it will continue to monitor conditions, the station, homestead and Emma Gorge Resort plans to re-open on Saturday August 23.

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A bushfire advice remains for people in Durack, in the Shire of Wyndham-East Kimberley.

The blaze is in the area bound by King River, Gibb River Road, Emma Gorge waterfall and the Chamberlain River, including El Questro Station.

The Department of Fire and Emergency Services says the bushfire, which was first reported on August 13, is not yet contained or controlled.

DFES says there is no threat to lives and homes.

Check the DFES website for updates https://www.emergency.wa.gov.au/

18/08/2025

WA's chief justice says everyone should be worried about the rise of 'sovereign citizens' who do not believe in the law, warning of the risks to "the safety and stability" of society.

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WA's chief justice says everyone should be worried about the rise of 'sovereign citizens' who do not believe in the law, warning of the risks to "the safety and stability" of society.

18/08/2025

Police say the 76-year-old man was dragged for metres when the 14-year-old boy attempted to steal his ute and caravan in Halls Creek.

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Police say the 76-year-old man was dragged for metres when the 14-year-old boy attempted to steal his ute and caravan in Halls Creek.

18/08/2025

A popular resort and caravan park near Wyndham will close at the end of this month because it can't expand into a flood zone.

The owner of Parry Creek Farm, Mark Dyson, says the WA Health Department told him him he couldn't build more cabins because their sewerage system would be through a flood plain.

Mr Dyson said there needed to be changes to the Department's existing policy.

"The policy written by the WA Health Department does not take into consideration the climate and the conditions that we operate here in the Kimberley," he said.

"Even if you are in a flood zone, I think WA needs to reconsider what it's done with sewerage, the other states have come up with systems that can cope with flooding".

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