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30/11/2025

Charlie was in a coma for days after contracting the rare but preventable disease. He was lucky to survive.

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Charlie was in a coma for days after contracting the rare but preventable disease. He was lucky to survive.

30/11/2025

Lives and homes are again under threat from a bushfire burning in Geraldton's outer suburbs, with a fresh emergency warning issued for Bluff Point, Spalding and Sunset Beach.

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Firefighters defended properties in the outer Geraldton suburbs of Waggrakine and Moresby as a bushfire burned close to homes on Sunday afternoon.

30/11/2025

Kaya Perth, have you spotted any of these bright orange trees around?

The arrival of the moodjar (nuytsia floribunda) heralds the start of the Noongar season of Birak, also known as the first summer.

They hold a great deal of spiritual significance for the Noongar people, who believe the spirits of their ancestors rest in the branches of the moodjar.

Birak is also known as the season of the young in Noongar culture and sees fledglings venturing out of nests and snake and other reptile activity is on the rise.

The season sees an almost clockwork pattern of easterly winds in the morning before the afternoons are cooled by sea breezes from the southwest.

This is traditionally the fire season, when the Noongar people would burn the country in mosaic patterns.

The Nyoongar calendar has six seasons, each representing the changes we see in the environment.

📝 Kenith Png
🎥🎞️Mitchell Edgar

30/11/2025

A new report shows Australia is on track to become the first country to eliminate cervical cancer by 2035.

The 2025 report, released this month, from the Centre for Research Excellence in Cervical Cancer Control confirms rates of cervical cancer among Australian women continue to fall.

In 2021, the national cervical cancer rate decreased to 6.3 per 100,000, compared to 6.6 per 100,000 in 2020.

However, for Indigenous women, the rate is higher at 11.7 per 100,000 in 2017-2021.

Furthermore, the proportion of people who are up-to-date with screening has now declined for the second consecutive year (2023 and 2024).

There are now more than 1 in 4 eligible women overdue for cervical screening.

“Australia’s early adoption of HPV vaccines for girls and young women and timely switch to cervical screening rather than Pap smears have us well on track to achieve elimination and save more lives,” says Assistant Minister for Health and Aged Care Rebecca White in a media statement.

“But we must continue to improve equitable access to maintain rates of HPV vaccination and make sure everyone has access to cervical screening.”

30/11/2025

TOTAL FIRE BAN 🚫 Monday 1st December
📍Gingin, Mundaring, Swan, Toodyay

🔥 DON'T LIGHT A FIRE. NO HOT WORKS, WELDING OR GRINDING

More information: emergency.wa.gov.au/total-fire-bans
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30/11/2025

Do you know what’s really in a v**e? 7.30’s Adam Harvey took a handful of v**es to a laboratory for testing and the results may surprise you.

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30/11/2025

⏰ Monday 3.30am
​​​​**THIS POST WILL NOT BE UPDATED AGAIN. Check here for further updates: www.emergency.wa.gov.au/**

ℹ️ Downgraded to Advice – Monitor conditions - CULLALLA MOOLIABEENEE and MOONDAH
📍people in the area bounded by Kinella Road, Wells Glover Road, Bindoon Moora Road and Cullalla Road in parts of MOOLIABEENEE in the SHIRE OF CHITTERING.
⚬ There is no threat to lives or homs
⚬ Monitor conditions

ℹ️ Downgraded to Advice - STAY INFORMED - MORANGUP
📍 people in an area bounded by Morangup Road to the East, Echidna Road to the West and McKnoe Drive to the North and South in MORANGUP in the SHIRE OF TOODYAY.
⚬ The alert level for this fire has been downgraded as the fire has been contained and controlled.

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📷 A firetruck parked on a road close to a bushfire in WA. Credit: DFES

30/11/2025

Five peak legal bodies in WA say they are not being properly regulated by the state's Legal Practice Board, which decides who is allowed to practice law and handles complaints about lawyers' conduct.

In a scathing rebuke of their own watchdog, WA lawyers claim the state's Legal Practice Board is causing them psychological harm amid calls for urgent reform.

30/11/2025

The new Scarborough Beach bus service launched today, as Perth braces for a scorching start to summer.

WA capital is bracing for a 38C start to December, as the state government launches a free bus service to one of the city's most popular beaches.

29/11/2025

🎵 "When the bloom of the jacaranda tree is here, Christmas time is near."🎵

If you have been driving around Perth lately, you'd have noticed hundreds of purple flowers burst into bloom, so where are the best places to see them? If you've already snapped a photo this season, share it with us.

Jacarandas are so well known to Australians and so well loved that many of us think them native, but they actually come from South America where they are listed as a vulnerable plant.

"I reckon there's probably more in Australia than there is in their probably localised area," Craig Woodroffe, the Managing Director of Ellenby Treefarm, told Jo Trilling on ABC Radio Perth.

Mr Woodroffe believes the oldest Jacaranda in metropolitan Perth is located in Mt Lawley.

"It's probably around 90… which is a registered tree."

"There's probably other in country estates that might be a little bit older."

For gardeners who would like to incorporate the purple haze into their homes, but might not have space for a tree that could grow anywhere between 8 and 15 metres, the Bonsai Blue is a compact alternative.

"It's a smaller growing one and flowers within three years and gets nice small characteristics of the same tree, but in a sort of 5 to 8 metre size."

While the trees are considered w**ds in other states, Mr Woodroffe says the Jacaranda will continue to be a popular choice in Perth.

"We don't really have that establishment of a w**d that it can get in Queensland and New South Wales and in South Africa because of the rainfall."

"And because they're a low risk with the shot hole borer, we do need some trees that have some instant impact with flowers as well."

29/11/2025

Landholders on the border of Wellington National Park are spotting native wildlife on their properties for the first time in years thanks to a predator control program.

The 18-month program run by South West NRM targeted the reduction and management of introduced predators on private properties.

The environmental group's Acting CEO Linda Metz says the area was chosen because of its unique and critically endangered wildlife.

"Wellington National Park's got some really amazing, natural native animals there so things like the chuditch, western ringtail possum and quokka and some of those are critically endangered and vulnerable."

Remote cameras were used on 61 private properties to capture both native and non-native animal activity. The cameras identified populations of introduced predators like cats, foxes and pigs. South West NRM then employed control methods like trapping, shooting and baits.

As a result, 165 feral pigs, 143 foxes and eight cats were removed from the participating properties.
Speaking to Stan Shaw on ABC South West Breakfast, Ms Metz admitted the number of feral pigs captured was surprising.

"Once you get those cameras out there, they really expose the reality of the situation and how real those threats are," she says.

"The pigs, were, I think surprising to some... pigs can be very destructive so they leave a big, sort of, mark where they've been, they can really churn up the grounds."

Due to the program's success, South West NRM have developed a digital landholder booklet to help facilitate ongoing predator control action available on the organisation's website.

29/11/2025

A woman has survived a 12-hour ordeal after falling into a cave in remote Western Australia.

A 60-year-old woman survives a 12-hour ordeal after falling into a cave in remote Western Australia, prompting a large rescue effort in the Goldfields.

29/11/2025

Share your Sing Sesh pics! 📸🤩
This time last week, 500 ABC Radio Perth listeners joined us at The Charles Hotel to celebrate Australian music.

Thank you to everyone who attended - we dressed up, we sang, we danced!

Thank you to the larger-than-life Natalie Gillespie for leading the pub choir and The Corporation Band for providing the tunes to dance the night away.

Of course, a big shoutout to Peter Allen, Sia and Amy Taylor for their guest appearances!

29/11/2025

The theatrical bird is known to "play dead" by splaying out on the ground during feeding sessions or tucking his head beneath his wings.

Locals say this cheeky pelican has a personality unlike any bird they have ever seen.

29/11/2025

Dr Sue Gordon herself was forcibly removed from her family near Meekathara when she was four, in 1947. She spent 14 years at Sister Kate's in Queens Park, in Perth's south-east.

"My age group and [the people] older than me wanted to come back to this site," she said.

The 100-bed facility will be constructed on a site where Stolen Generations were taken to against the will of their parents.

29/11/2025

It is held up as the "gold standard" of music testing in the country, but there are claims the Australian Music Examinations Board is letting down talented students.

28/11/2025

Do you love a juicy, juicy mango?

Here's some of the sayings you'll hear every mango season.

📝🎬🎞️ Andrew Seaborne via ABC Kimberley

*We published this video last year, but thought it was too funny not to reshare now that we are back in mango season.

28/11/2025

Leaving my garden in the heat of summer can feel worrying but some simple planning means it misses me less than I miss it.

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Leaving my garden in the heat of summer can feel worrying but some simple planning means it misses me less than I miss it.

28/11/2025

The State Library of WA is running an appeal to save a set of seaw**d scrapbooks made nearly 100 years ago by a renowned Kalgoorlie-born naturalist.

28/11/2025

The federal government has this week passed laws that will force platforms like Netflix, Disney, and Amazon to invest in Australian programs and award winning Australian writer Trent Dalton said the news is 'massive'.

Dalton's semi-autobiographical novel Boy Swallows Universe, which is set in Darra, Brisbane, was turned into a Netflix series, and he says seeing local content on screen is a 'very powerful message'.

"I just really love the idea that some sad Aussie kid … can turn on the Netflix show and go 'wow, that kid is happy, that kid is still smiling through the tears'," Dalton told Jo Trilling on .

28/11/2025

Internal revolt is intensifying at the City of Perth over the newly elected lord mayor's pursuit of a ratepayer-funded workplace culture review, in a process deemed unlawful by his own administration.

Bruce Reynolds, who was sworn in as lord mayor in October, is said to have given councillors just six minutes' notice last week about his intention to order a $125,000 independent workplace culture review.

The City of Perth is in turmoil amid a dispute over newly elected Lord Mayor Bruce Reynolds's push for a ratepayer-funded workplace culture review, with the council's acting CEO resigning amid the saga.

28/11/2025

The trial led to a significant decrease in domestic violence offending at 24 months, with a greater reduction in participants who took the antidepressant sertraline than those who took a placebo — a relative risk reduction of 21%.

There was a 30% reduction in domestic violence reoffending for men in the treatment group who reported taking their medication more frequently, and a 52% risk reduction in those with high psychological distress.

The findings are significant not just because of how much the trial reduced domestic violence, but because only a few years ago it drew fierce criticism from women's advocates and politicians.

28/11/2025

Bushfire ℹ️ DOWNGRADED TO ADVICE - BULLSBROOK
​​​​​​​**THIS POST WILL NOT BE UPDATED AGAIN. Check here for further updates: www.emergency.wa.gov.au/
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28/11/2025

"It's a pain that can't be described."
Alana Starkie is talking about the unfathomable loss of her newborn baby Tommy, who lived for just 23 days after his traumatic birth at WA's premier maternity hospital in August.

Nine weeks after his death, his grieving parents want to know why.

THE STORY: ab.co/48lCmpI

28/11/2025

The Perth Lynx are hopeful high-profile 211-centimetre Chinese recruit Han Xu will lead the club to a new era of success both on and off the court.

Xu has already made a big impression with her new teammates and is set to make her WNBL debut away to the Canberra Capitals on Saturday.

📝 Blake Kagi
🎬 Veronica Buck