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A light aircraft crashes near Rottnest Island, Western Australia, killing the pilot and two tourists from Denmark and Switzerland while injuring three other passengers.
2025-01-7

Western Australia repeals a five-week-old law aimed at protecting Aboriginal sacred sites in the state, citing complexities in implementing the law.
2023-08-8

A Boeing 737-300 firefighting tanker crashes in Fitzgerald River National Park in Western Australia. Both pilots survive.
2023-02-6

Western Australia reports a record 37 locally transmitted cases of COVID-19 in the past 24 hours.
2022-02-10

A ship due to carry 65,000 sheep to the Middle East fails an Australian Maritime Safety Authority inspection after docking in Fremantle, Western Australia and is denied permits for the voyage. The government is investigating newly emerged footage of conditions on the ship, where thousands of sheep died during a similar voyage last year.
2018-04-8

The Department of Fire and Emergency Services orders the evacuation of residents of the Western Australia town of Northcliffe as a bushfire approaches. [http:--www.perthnow.com.au-news-western-australia-live-updates-northcliffe-under-threat-from-raging-bushfire-story-fnhocxo3-1227206087626?nk=189524b3e2a960d591ca9939c129a980 ("Perth Now")]date=August 2019
2015-02-3

Voters in the Australian state of Western Australia go to the polls for a Federal Senate election.
2014-04-5

The Australian Electoral Commission petitions the High Court of Australia for a new Senate election in the state of Western Australia due to the loss of 1,370 ballot papers and the closeness of the result.
2013-11-15

The heads of government of the Commonwealth of Nations meet in the Western Australian city of Perth.
2011-10-28

A team of Australian and British geologists claim to have the found the world's oldest fossils in the Strelley Pool rock formation in the outback of the Australian state of Western Australia. According to the Monday, August 22 Huffington Post online video and short article about them
2011-08-21