Health & medicine
Kununurra: Citrus disease warning
A scientist warns the citrus fruit industry to beware of a devastating disease common in Asian countries.
Asian citrus psyllid has cut citrus production in Florida by more than a quarter since 2006.
Farm Weekly [read this story]
People: Musicians head shave this Friday
Damian Watkiss
Kimberley musicians will be shaving off dreadlocks, a mullett, and possibly more to help cancer sufferers this Friday.
Music venues in Kununurra and Broome are hosting The World’s Greatest Shave. › Continue reading
Darwin: Deadly soil disease warning
A woman contracted a deadly disease, probably from her friend’s back lawn in Humpty Doo.
She said she had been walking with cracked feet on the damp, reticulated lawn.
She had to cut her holiday short at Broome, when she was airlifted to Perth and spent three months in hospital with septic arthritis. › Continue reading
Halls Creek: Volunteer dental clinics
Jan and John Owen
Perth dentist John Owen and his wife Jan have been volunteering their services to needy Kimberley communities.
Their new Kimberley Dental Team is a charitable organisation with unusual origins – choral singing! › Continue reading
Wild dogs carry cattle disease
A scientist says wild dogs can spread a disease that causes pregnant cows to miscarry.
People: Grace McCarthy
Grace McCarthy
Grace McCarthy is in Cape Town, South Africa.
She is volunteering as an English teacher at an orphanage in one of the townships and she said it is not like nursing at Fitzroy Crossing. › Continue reading
Calma tackles Indigenous smoking
Former social justice commissioner Tom Calma says anti-smoking campaigns need to be targeted specifically to indigenous people.
Half of all Aboriginal adults smoke, compared with only 20% of non indigenous adults in Australia.
Mr Calma is now the first National Coordinator for Tackling Indigenous Smoking.
Broome: Resort fined $60k for accident
Cable Beach Club pleaded guilty to failing to provide a safe working environment in Broome Magistrate’s Court yesterday.
A 24-year-old resort worker is now paralysed and brain damaged after falling off a cherry picker last year.
The magistrate fined the club $60,000.
WAToday [read this story]
More people are eating kangaroo meat
More Australians are eating Kangaroo meat.
A Sydney butcher says more people are curious about the meat, and he sold out of Kangaroo sausages before Australia Day.
“Kangatarians” – who eat no red meat apart from kangaroo – say it is more humane and better for the environment.
WAToday [read this story]
Scientists say bacteria in the Kangaroo guts reduce greenhouse gas emissions, and may also help fight cancer.
The Bird’s Brain [read this story]
Broome: Three swimmers rescued
A young local man decided to take a quick dip yesterday, but was carried out to sea by a powerful tide.
His two friends, who jumped in to help him, also lost control and were all heading for Africa when a nearby boat rescued them.
All three had been walking along the jetty just before the incident.
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