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Broome business leaders banish 'the west season' for more friendly summer alternative

A top tourist resort in Broome has convinced business leaders to dump the words "wet season" from their promotional material and replace them with the more appealing "summer season". The Cable Beach Club Resort and the Broome Chamber of Commerce and Industry have wiped the terminology that has forever been synonymous w...

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Ichthys LNG giant gears up for first production

The $US37 billion Ichthys LNG project is on track to start up next March as its two giant vessels moored about 200km off the Kimberley are readied for production. Toshiaki Kitamura, chief executive of operator Inpex, told analysts in Tokyo this week that the first production of condensate, LNG and LPG would meet the target of March 2018 a...

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NW patience pays off for King River at Mt Remarkable

Shares in the Tony Barton-chaired and backed King River Copper enjoyed a bump today after the company emerged from a trading halt to report a high-grade gold hit at its Mt Remarkable project in the Kimberley. King River said a new scissor hole at the Trudi Vein prospect 200km south of Kununurra had returned six metres at 37.6g/t gold inclu...

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Broome airport Sees Capacity Decline

The two largest airports in Western Australia, Perth and Broome, have seen scheduled aviation capacity decline this year. At Perth, capacity is down by 2.1 percent for the year-to-date and for Broome, figures are down 2.4 percent. If the year continues like this, this year will see capacity somewhere between what it was in 2012 and 2013. ...

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Emma White new CEO of KPCA

There is a new head at Kimberley Pilbara Cattlemen's Association, with Emma White taking over from Catherine Marriott as chief executive. Ms White was an executive director with the Northern Territory Department of the Chief Minister. She has worked across the northern States in community relations, policy development and other ro...

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miners' campaign against tax fails to win voters

A multimillion-dollar advertising campaign waged by a powerful mining lobby has failed to convince a majority of West Australian voters to oppose a $3 billion a year tax on the country's biggest mining companies. An exclusive ReachTEL poll commissioned by Fairfax Media found 39.4 per cent in favour of the plan by WA Nationals leader Bren...

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