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Australia's $19b gold industry on edge of 'production cliff' as mines run out of gold, analyst warns

Australia was built on gold rushes a century ago, but there is a warning it could slip from second to fourth on a list of the world's biggest gold producing nations by 2024.




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Yabbies packaged for export




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Yabbie on a plate




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Miss Maud yabbies




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Dry conditions leave Asia's appetite for Aussie yabbies unsatisfied

Asian demand for the humble yabby has boomed in the last decade, but a lack of dam-filling rainfall threatens to pull them from the menu.




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Two pedestrians dead after being hit by truck on Brookton Highway in Jelcobine near Perth

A man and a woman are dead after they were hit by a truck overnight on Brookton Highway in Jelcobine, almost 100 kilometres south-east of Perth, with police closing the road to investigate the crash.




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Live export industry braces for the cost of fewer cattle on ships

The number of cattle allowed onboard live export ships is about to be reduced. Industry says the new rule makes no sense and will cause financial pain.









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Federal election 2019: Major parties accused of neglecting a 'broken' National Landcare funding system

The Landcare movement has the ability to unite farmers and environmentalists, but it hasn't received much attention in an election campaign infatuated with climate change.




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How WA is on track to have Australia's most advanced weather forecasting system

The weather serves as both a great unifier and obsession for most Australians and now the Bureau of Meteorology is about to bring in the next generation of online forecasting technology.






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Is corporate farming ruining the sense of community in small rural and regional towns?

Thirty per cent of the Shire of Westonia is owned by corporate agricultural companies and locals say they are worried it is ruining the "sense of community" in the shire's small rural towns.





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Australia's riskiest suburbs for home loans revealed as banks push for higher deposits

A crackdown on home loans emerges in the wake of the Banking Royal Commission, with borrowers being asked for deposits of up to 30 per cent and banks throwing greater scrutiny on location and living expenses.









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Water deficiency triggers government intervention on WA's south coast amid animal welfare concerns

The Western Australia State Government will now supply water to affected farms where, in some cases, record-low rainfall has persisted, and damaging floods in early 2017 were the last significant rainfall event.





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Federal election 2019: Inside O'Connor's logistical effort to have 102 polling booths staffed across 860,000 sq km

O'Connor is one of the largest electorates in the world, but there will be 102 polling stations open for business on Saturday when the federal election takes place.





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Barbara York Main, Australia's spider woman and Wheatbelt advocate, author and poet dies

Dr Barbara Anne York Main OAM, who died last week, was one of Australia's leading spider researchers and conservationists. She studied the world's oldest spider and championed their home at a time when both the environment and women were given no fighting chance.






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What is the future for Australian chia, quinoa farmers in the multi-billion-dollar superfood industry?

An increase in the production of the trendy grains overseas forces a number of pioneering Australian growers to scale down production. What is the future for Australian farmers in the multi-billion-dollar superfood industry?




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China struggles to contain African swine fever, resorts to mass live-pig burials, millions of culls

Amid international efforts to find a vaccine for the deadly pig virus, Australian authorities and industry are bracing for an outbreak that some pig farmers fear is "inevitable".






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Painstaking operation to rescue young boy stuck in Katanning chimney a success

Emergency services rescue an eight-year-old boy after he climbed into a chimney at his home in the town of Katanning in WA's Great Southern and became stuck.





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A 56y/o has been charged with acts likely to endanger life after the alleged incident in Wagin in WA's Great Southern.




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Woman charged after allegedly driving with daughter on car bonnet through WA town

A 56-year-old woman has been charged with acts likely to endanger life for allegedly driving with her teenage daughter on the bonnet of a car.




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Video of a WA woman allegedly driving with a teenager on the bonnet of a car has emerged on social media




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Killer whales communicate with Australian accents




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How do you know if a killer whale is Australian? Listen to its accent

Killer whales gathering in a newly discovered biodiversity hotspot off the south coast of Western Australia are communicating with Aussie accents, according to a research group studying the ocean's apex predator.



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Perth weather prompts BOM warning as strong winds, heavy rain set to pummel south-west WA

A strong cold front is expected to bring damaging wind gusts, heavy rain, thunderstorms and possible flash flooding to south-west WA, with up to 40 millimetres of rainfall set to be dumped on Perth.





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Operating theatre woes to be solved, but eastern WA Wheatbelt communities still in limbo

A few years ago Bill Huxtable was given three months to live, now his biggest concern is the three-hour round trip to the nearest hospital for regular, routine surgeries.