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ATSB Report on HMAS Leeuwin Collision with Container Ship
An interim report into the collision between a container ship and the sail-training ship STS Leeuwin in Fremantle Port last year provides new details on the accident, which severely damaged the Leeuwin and injured two of its crew.
The Nature Conservancy Australia (TNC) is embarking on a landmark conservation project that will harness the power of nature to provide long-term benefits to Perth’s much-loved Swan Canning Estuary.
Rail travel is one of the most energy-efficient forms of transport – with only 2.6 per cent of Australia’s transport greenhouse gas emissions attributable to it.
Mintox
As an 80s kid, I remember saying this word... a lot.
While other colloquialisms seem to have hung around this one seems to have vanished from common vernacular.
I have some questions ...
Did everyone say this, or only my siblings and I? Is it Western Australian? Australian? or Global?
Where did it come from? Does it mean or refer to anything or is it just random syllables?
Where did it go? Why did this word fall out of favor while others are still in popular use?
Council criticised over plan to replace beloved public artwork with 7-metre tall effigy of spaceman created by a former Wall Street trader
Researchers have set out to find the cause of a paralysis syndrome affecting magpies across Perth and the Southwest.
For now, researchers are urging the public who see a sick magpie to follow this checklist:
Avoid contact with the bird. Record what you see, including the location of the animal and take photos or video if safe to do so. For more information, see the WHA guidance document for sick and injured wildlife. Contact a wildlife rehabilitation group or your local veterinarian.
If you see any other unusual signs of disease or deaths in wildlife anywhere in Australia, you can report it to:
o your local State/Territory WHA Coordinator
o the 24-hour Emergency Animal Disease Hotline on free call 1800 675 888
o your local veterinarian
o the Department of Primary Industries or Agriculture in the State/Territory in which the event is occurring/occurred.
Weekly Chat - 11th to the 18th April
A weekend, (because i forgot since Wednesday), thread for discussing the wild, whacky and utterly mundane of life in our isolated wedge of the planet.
Seventeen-year-old Leah O'Brien has set a new Australian under-18 100m record, breaking Raelene Boyle's mark set at the 1968 Mexico City Olympics.
Queenslanders might have Gout Gout, but we have O'brien... "Oo...Ooo... Ooo.. O'brien!"
But in all seriousness is Aussie athletics having a moment?
FEDERAL Perth Labor MP Patrick Gorman says he wants an Aboriginal Cultural Centre on Perth’s waterfront to be “Western Australia’s answer to the Opera House”. The centre received a further $20 mill…
For more info on the cultural centre, Aboriginal Cultural Centre Project
Image from "Masterplan for Perth City Riverfront" document. By City of Perth.WA's education minister has instructed her department to retract advice banning bikes without chain guards in schools following revelations education programs had been cancelled.
Weekly Chat - 4th to the 11th April
A rather late in the week thread for discussing the wild, whacky and utterly mundane of life in our isolated corner of the planet.
Safety directive for bike use in WA schools throws education programs into turmoil
An education department directive that bans bikes and tricycles without chain and sprocket guards has led to the immediate cancellation of outdoor education programs, amid claims the directive goes too far.
The Climate and Health Alliance is Australia's national body for climate change and health. We are 100+ health organisations building a powerful health sector movement for climate action and sustainable healthcare.
Desflurane is a commonly used inhalational general anaesthetic agent, and it is also a potent greenhouse gas, with a global warming potential 2540 times that of carbon dioxide (CO2).
Following support from WATAG and the Western Australian Drug Evaluation Panel (WADEP), desflurane was delisted from the WA SMF in August 2023
Weekly Chat - 27th to the 2nd April
A thread for discussing the wild, whacky and utterly mundane of life in our isolated corner of the planet.
It’s a stunning example of the failure of WA’s planning system, say advocates: the loss of a rare and beautiful species for the “ugly monoculture” of sprawl.
At the nearly finally concluded WA State elections the Greens WA party is certain to secure 4 seats in the upper house – the Legislative Council – of the State Parliament. Given that the WA Labor party, which controls the lower house, the Legislative Assembly, and holds Government probably has 16 of...
Podcast is just under 30 minutes.
A ‘library of things’ in Victoria Park is seeking to keep rubbish out of landfill, and connect the community.
Many people are surprised to find a winery more than 800 kilometres inland from Western Australia's coast, but veteran Kalgoorlie winemaker Geoff Paynter says they shouldn't be.
