Broome
Roebuck Plains: Cameras detect rare wallabies, feared extinct
Yawuru rangers have found rare spectacled hare wallabies at Roebuck Plains.
The World Wildlife Fund trained the rangers to operate remote wildlife cameras, which they set and left running for two months.
Science Network WA [read this story]
Missing Hedland man: Police suspect homicide
Police are now treating the Lindsay Judas case as a suspected homicide.
Photo: WA Police
Mr Judas, 55, disappeared in January last year while on a solo fishing trip to Broome.
He was employed as a bus driver by a mining company, working out of Hedland.
His vehicle turned up later in Queensland.
PerthNow [read this story]
Cattle prices up as sales fall off
West Kimberley pastoralists say cattle prices remain strong as the wet season approaches.
Farm Weekly [read this story]
PGA lawyer to brief stations on new leases
The PGA urges its members to attend a briefing in Broome next month.
The organisation’s solicitor will answer questions and note concerns about the forthcoming new pastoral lease.
Division president Peter Camp said the solicitor will go through the document, line by line, to explain it to the meeting.
Farm Weekly [read this story]
Broome: New deputy shire president
Harold Tracey is Broome’s new Deputy Shire President.
He replaces Jenny Bloom, who resigned from council last week.
The shire has also voted not to hold a by-election for Ms Bloom’s former seat, leaving it vacant until next year’s elections.
You can read a shire media release here:
Broome: Shire councillor resigns
Cr Jenny Bloom has resigned from her position on Broome Shire Council.
Jenny Bloom
She has been a councillor for five years, and had one year left of her term of office.
You can read a shire media release here:
Workshops for remote health professionals
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Broome 2 day workshop November 4th & 5th 2014
Understanding the social, environmental, structural, political and philosophical issues that impact upon health care provision in remote Australia.
Designed for any health professional working in a remote setting.
Includes Health promotion project design and evaluation.
Dementia: Recognising and Responding to Dementia in remote and Indigenous Communities
Broome 2 day workshop November 4th & 5th 2014
A two day workshop that will give primary health care and related workers the skills to provide quality dementia care and support to Aboriginal people with dementia, their families and community.
Content includes the skills and strategies to assess and assist both the person with dementia and their family in managing their dementia.
Contact crh.shortcourse@flinders.edu.au.
Melbourne: Strain wildlife documentary in film festival
A Kimberley documentary has featured at the Environmental Film Festival in Melbourne.
Coloured mangrove crab by Peter Strain
“Secrets of the Kimberley” features the photographic art of marine creatures by Broome Photographer Peter Strain.
He describes it as “a different way of seeing nature: anthropomorphic and art values featuring small marine creatures from the remote Kimberley shoreline”. [go to website]
The thirty minute documentary follows a journey to remote Kimberley reefs as Broome Photographer combines expressionistic pohotography of marine creatures with the work of a science team examining the extraordinary coral reefs of remote onshore reefs.
Art meets science. The photos featured in this documentary went on to become a major museum exhibition – “Line of Sight – Art meets Science on Australia’s Kimberley coast”.
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