Fitzroy Crossing
Kids get severe burns from caustic tattoo bush
Annette Kogolo
Aboriginal children in Halls Creek and Fitzroy Crossing have burned themselves while trying to make home-made tattoos.
Walmajarri woman Annette Kogolo says the children are experimenting with a caustic bush that has no traditional use.
Science Network [read this story]
People: Korinna Leach
Artist, poet and truckie Korinna Leach caught up with old friends recently at a Tasmanian truck stop.
Korinna used to be based in Fitzroy Crossing.
Big Rigs [read this story]
Halls Creek and Fitzroy Crossing: No fibre-optic connections this year
Halls Creek and Fitzroy Crossing are not included in a three-year plan to provide fibre-optic connections.
Kununurra and Broome are included in the government plan, which is intended to provide higher speed internet connections.
Opinion: Daron Keogh on development in the Kimberley
Daron Keogh
Fitzroy Crossing identity Daron Keogh addressed the Labor Party state executive in Perth this week.
Mr Keogh, a member of the band Fitzroy Express, is one of two candidates seeking Labor endorsement to stand for the state seat of Kimberley. more »
Fitzroy Crossing: Arts centre to oppose ‘racist’ law
Children of Aborigines in Western Australia without a will do not automatically inherit their parents’ estates.
The Arts Law Centre is getting ready to challenge the relevant 1972 legislation if it is not repealed.
The Australian [read this story]
Fitzroy Crossing: 197 stealing charges
Fitzroy Police have charged youths and young men with 137 stealing charges in the town and at Wangkatjungka.
PerthNow [read this story]
Fitzroy Crossing: Two charged with spate of burglaries
Fitzroy Crossing police have charged a young man and a 17-year-old youth with burglaries.
They say the pair are responsible for a two-week burglary spree in the town last month.
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