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Yawuru housing project in Broome pays off

Danielle Mills had accepted she would never own her own home before her people, the Yawaru (sic) of Broome in Western Australia's far north, turned their hand to residential property development. The 29-year-old, her daughter Rahizah, 14, and her son Lydon, 12, are settling into their newly built house in the suburb of Cable Beach a shor...

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Resource downturn hits NW regional air route

Airnorth will next month axe its weekly return services linking Karratha and Port Hedland to Broome, Kununurra and Darwin. The Bristow Helicopters owned company blamed a downturn in the resource sector within the Pilbara and said "the viability of the services has been subject to ongoing review". "Unfortunately our analysis o...

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PGA calls emergency Rangelands meeting

THE Pastoralists and Graziers Association (PGA) has called for an emergency forum of pastoralists to debate Rangelands reform next Friday, adamant that the government is unwilling to negotiate key sticking points in its draft legislation. Department of Lands officials last month held stakeholder meetings on the draft Land Administration Amen...

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Barramundi exporter MPA stymied by red tape

One of the nation's most promising aquaculture companies has accused the West Australian government of thwarting its plans to begin exporting barramundi from the Kimberley and to relist on the Australian Securities Exchange. Marine Produce Australia which sells its award-winning Cone Bay barramundi to some of Australia's most prestig...

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Broome Senior High School: Best secondary school in WA

Broome Senior High School, with 900 students, was last year named as one of three finalists in the Vocational Education and Training award for schools. In 2012, the country school was named as WA's best secondary school at the WA Education Awards, beating some of Perth's 'super schools', including Shenton College, Lakeland Se...

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Old Stage II leases handed over

The State Government has handed finalised lease documents to the Ord Valley's biggest developer after five years of long negotiations. Chinese-owned Kimberley Agricultural Developments was named as the State's preferred proponent for the Ord Stage II project several years ago. KAI has developed and harvested some farming land ...

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