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Yawuru Elder Patrick Dodson honoured for lifetime of leadership and reconciliation
Yawuru Elder and respected Indigenous leader Dr Patrick Dodson has been awarded...
Jackson Clark 31 Aug 2026
Mobile TAFE training for remote WA communities
Vocational education opportunities are set to be offered much closer to home for...
Callan Morse 26 Aug 2026
Grants for ACCOs to deliver new homes for Aboriginal employees in WA's Kimberley and Pilbara regions
The Western Australian Government has announced the awarding of more than $8 mil...
Giovanni Torre 26 Aug 2026
Connecting to Country grants support 23 projects across WA
Twenty-three projects across Western Australia will share more than $500,000 thr...
Jackson Clark 23 Aug 2026
Remote town’s Night Space supports youth, community safety

A youth night space has begun operating in Kununurra this week to provide a safe place for young people in the East Kimberley town. The Kununurra Youth Night Space (KYNS) is temporarily based at the p...

Callan Morse Callan Morse Aug 21, 2026
Kimberley region coming to its Census

While 2026 Census night last Tuesday week is all but a memory for most survey participants, the hard work was just beginning for local support teams in Australia's vast north-west region.

David Prestipino David Prestipino Aug 20, 2026
Free family history information sessions coming to East Kimberley

Aboriginal communities across the East Kimberley will have the opportunity to explore their family history at a series of free information sessions this September.

Giovanni Torre Giovanni Torre Aug 20, 2026
The by-election that ended a century of control over Aboriginal lives

Alan Ridge, the parliamentarian who represented Australia's remote northwest as enormous political change swept across its pastoral stations and the nation, passed away earlier this year at the age of...

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Ben Wyatt Aug 13, 2026
Late Kimberley ranger Scott Herring honoured at Fitzroy Crossing

Scott Herring, who tragically passed away earlier this year, arrived in the Kimberley as a teacher in 1995. Kimberley Aboriginal Law and Culture Centre chief executive Peter Murray remembers him arriv...

Natasha Clark Natasha Clark Aug 12, 2026
‘Risky’ water plan threatens Derby's drinking water supplies, advocates warn

The Western Australian government has been warned not to "gamble" with Derby's drinking water under a new plan to manage groundwater extraction in the Kimberley region.

Giovanni Torre Giovanni Torre Aug 11, 2026
EXCLUSIVE: Halls Creek Night Space linked to fall in youth crime, but youngest children miss out

No fighting, more kindness, and McDonald's. These were among the requests from Halls Creek children when the Jungarni-Jutiya Indigenous Corporation (JJIC) asked what they wanted from the town's new Ni...

Natasha Clark Natasha Clark Aug 3, 2026
Police intercept alleged outlaw motorcycle gang members heading towards Kimberley

WA Police intercepted seven alleged outlaw motorcycle gang members en route to Western Australia's Kimberley and issued each a dispersal notice.

Natasha Clark Natasha Clark Jul 31, 2026
Homegrown Bidgy Fest brings a world of music to remote community

Malanga Elder MJ Jadai sits in a garden outside an art centre in Bidyadanga, a remote Aboriginal community 200 kilometres south of Broome, as women swap brightly coloured clothes and children debate w...

Natasha Clark Natasha Clark Jul 30, 2026
Kalumburu students’ boab artwork to feature in new book

Students in Kalumburu, a remote East Kimberley community, are shaping a new book drawn from local stories and the towering presence of one of the town's largest boab trees.

Natasha Clark Natasha Clark Jul 30, 2026
Fitzroy Crossing store holds prices as remote families pay more for basics

Families in remote Kimberley communities are paying more for basics, however Fitzroy Crossing's Tarunda IGA is holding the line on city prices.

Natasha Clark Natasha Clark Jul 28, 2026
Traditional Owners secure Nganjuwarr consent determination in East Kimberley

Traditional Owners have secured formal recognition of their rights across 961 square kilometres of rugged East Kimberley country in Western Australia, under the Nganjuwarr consent determination.

Natasha Clark Natasha Clark Jul 23, 2026
Fighting for lives: Elijah Murray’s Fitzroy Crossing boxing gym

Elijah Murray can name friends from the Fitzroy Valley in Western Australia's Kimberley region who he believes should still be alive. After losing them to suicide and addiction, he created a boxing gy...

Natasha Clark Natasha Clark Jul 22, 2026
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