Offstream
news

Fifty-one long-finned pilot whales are found dead after beaching themselves on a beach near Albany, Western Australia, as part of a larger pod of nearly 100. State authorities and volunteers are working to redirect the remaining 46 whales to deeper waters.
2023-07-25

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

The Labor Party wins the state election in Western Australia, in one of the biggest landslide victories in the country's history.
2021-03-13

The High Court of Australia rules that Rod Culleton was ineligible for election as a candidate for Pauline Hanson's One Nation Party in Western Australia in the Federal election and is ineligible to serve in the Senate of Australia.
2017-02-3

Bushfires burning near Esperance on the coast of Western Australia may have killed four people.
2015-11-17

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

Thousands of protesters demonstrate in the Australian states of New South Wales, Queensland and Western Australia against the coal seam gas industry.
2011-10-17

Asylum seekers at the Christmas Island Immigration Reception and Processing Centre off the Indian Ocean coast of Western Australia start a hunger strike in protest at their deportation to Malaysia.
2011-08-6

Claude Choules, the last known combat veteran from World War I, dies in Perth, Western Australia.
2011-05-5

Rio Tinto Group and BHP Billiton announce that they have scrapped a proposed $120 billion joint venture in the Pilbara region of Western Australia due to regulatory problems.
2010-10-18