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25.01.2022 Do you agree? Is WA’s public health services failing to help the soaring number of young people with mental illness?

25.01.2022 Mark McGowan says he is afraid of coronavirus returning to Western Australia and having mass deaths on his conscience, as he stared down critics of the State’s controversial hard border.

25.01.2022 A woman who suffered a collapsed lung in a relentless domestic violence attack has told a court her partner was a loving and compassionate man.

25.01.2022 Thousands of Australians stranded overseas could soon return home under a deal to allow people to quarantine near Darwin.

25.01.2022 Greater Brisbane will go into a three-day lockdown as authorities scramble to contain the spread of the mutant UK COVID-19 strain after a hotel quarantine worker tested positive.

25.01.2022 Australia's COVID-19 vaccination program will be fast-tracked so frontline healthcare workers and high risk groups can start receiving the jab by next month.

25.01.2022 Mark McGowan says NSW’s Acting Premier John Barilaro is being un-Australian for suggesting overseas travellers who land in Sydney be put onto connecting domestic flights to serve quarantine in their home States.

25.01.2022 Former Olympian Lisa Curry has expressed her heartache over the loss of her daughter Jaime who passed away yesterday aged 33 after a long-term illness in an emotional tribute.

25.01.2022 Jenny D’Ubios the international traveller accused of brazenly walking out of hotel quarantine and sparking a frantic 12-hour search has been sent back to prison just a day after being granted bail because she allegedly provided two bogus addresses to a court.

24.01.2022 SPOT THE ELVES AND WIN Don't forget to spot these elves in tomorrow's Broome Advertiser! The first four to call 9191 9700 on Friday with the unique codeword hidden with this festive duo will win a $100 Shop Local Gift Card!

24.01.2022 Child sex offenders and bikies from major outlaw gangs are among those being detained at Christmas Island, where Premier Mark McGowan is suggesting stranded Australians returning home from overseas could quarantine.

24.01.2022 Prime Minister Scott Morrison says Australia wants an open, transparent and mutually beneficial relationship with China, but remains absolutely committed to our enduring alliance with the United States.

23.01.2022 Do you think ScoMo got the anthem change wrong?

23.01.2022 The Boy in the Blue Cap: The Gerard Ross Story is an eight-part documentary directed and produced by award-winning journalist Kristin Shorten, forensically documenting one of WAs most enduring and heartbreaking mysteries. And the entire eight-part series is now available to watch for free if you register at thewest.com.au.

23.01.2022 It will be more of the same for West Coast in 2021, with minimal changes likely from the side that fell to Collingwood in a thrilling elimination final loss, writes Braden Quartermaine.

23.01.2022 The third dedicated COVID testing clinic has opened in Kununurra.

22.01.2022 Qantas is betting the roll-out of coronavirus vaccines across Australia could soon spell the end of global travel restrictions and has reopened bookings on its international network.

22.01.2022 NSW has recorded four new locally acquired infections of coronavirus.

22.01.2022 Business at the front. Party at the back. The mullet, the iconic haircut people love to hate, is staging a comeback.

22.01.2022 The toxic culture tearing the Perth-based Hockeyroos apart can be finally revealed with players complaining they were treated like children, while a former staff member said she would drive to work crying and suffered panic attacks once there.

22.01.2022 A friend of the man who livestreamed his death has hit out at Facebook for failing to act quickly, while parents are being urged to keep their teens away from the distressing footage.

22.01.2022 It might have been a week since Tallulah Bieundurry was crowned this year's Kimberley Girl but we're still not over how fabulous all of the finalists were on stage. Check out some of the highlights here.

21.01.2022 Five juvenile girls have been charged with assault in relation to an incident at a long-running Broome event.

21.01.2022 Fremantle’s quarantine contingent got a head start on pre-season at their club’s Cockburn headquarters on Monday afternoon, away from the rest of the squad.

20.01.2022 The Federal Government has given the nod for a Chinese company to take a 50 per cent stake in Sheffield Resource's emerging mineral sands project between Broome and Derby.

20.01.2022 EDITORIAL: There are some obvious words that come to mind when we consider the issue of domestic violence. A stain on society. Shameful. Shocking. Disgusting. Cowardly. And yet it just continues to go on. And on. And on. It is clear we have an epidemic on our hands.

19.01.2022 Victoria has recorded three new locally acquired coronavirus cases for a third straight day, and another strong testing figure.

19.01.2022 Footy fans will have one more opportunity to flock to Optus Stadium this season with West Coast set to host a home final in Perth if they finish fifth on the ladder as expected.

19.01.2022 Ken Wyatt says he is concerned there will be a rise in suicides among Aboriginal communities because of the surge in anxiety surrounding COVID-19.

19.01.2022 WA Aboriginal Affairs Minister Ben Wyatt has backed mining giant Rio Tinto following reports the AFL has decided to end their ten-year partnership due to their involvement in destroying ancient Aboriginal rock shelters in the state’s north-west.

19.01.2022 Make sure to enter the Broome Junior Masters Competition! You don't want to miss out on this wicked prize package :)

19.01.2022 Mark McGowan was flabbergasted by multiple PPE protocol breaches involving a paramedic, nurse and airport ground crew who came into contact with a COVID infected traveller in Perth, saying it shows complacency in WA’s health system.

19.01.2022 A high ranking Corrective Services official who has recently overseen WA’s first ever drug and alcohol rehabilitation prison has been stood down after being charged with drink driving.

19.01.2022 Ive always said that being a person of colour, in my case Aboriginal/Maori, is something that cannot be understood unless you are ... of colour, writes The West Australians Rangi Hirini.

19.01.2022 While COVID-19 vaccination programs in more than three dozen countries have seen over 13 million people get the jab already, Australians will still have to wait until early March before the shots are available in this country.

19.01.2022 The WA girl who melted hearts across Australia, sparking an outpouring of generosity with her brave cancer battle, has died.

18.01.2022 More than a decade after melting hearts around Australia in Baz Luhrmanns 2008 film of the same name, the boy that played Nullah has faced court.

18.01.2022 Purple fans - find out more about your new Freo recruits.

18.01.2022 From reality television reboots, book-to-screen adaptions and what seems like an endless list of new dramas, the silver screen offerings for the upcoming year are just as promising as any other.

18.01.2022 A list of the top 10 most-popular novels studied in WA schools by ATAR English students shows that four of them feature imaginary future societies where people live in fear for their lives.

18.01.2022 A new study has revealed one third of Aussies have suffered from workplace discrimination. What needs to change?

17.01.2022 Ahead of the 2021 pre-season starting, we take a look at the seven reasons to be excited about Fremantle in season 2021.

17.01.2022 WA is set to play host to thousands of athletes from all over the world when the World Transplant Games is held in Perth in 2023.

17.01.2022 South Australia’s Premier says Mark McGowan’s decision not to attend the first in-person National Cabinet meeting to avoid being in the same room as him doesn’t make a lot of logical sense.

17.01.2022 EDITORIAL: Worrying cracks have emerged in WA’s anti-COVID armour around our hotel quarantine and passenger and patient transport systems for arrivals from overseas.

17.01.2022 Ahead of the 2021 pre-season starting, we take a look at the seven reasons to be excited about West Coast in season 2021.

17.01.2022 This year R U OK? Day and World Suicide Prevention Day could never be more important, writes Prime Minister Scott Morrison.

16.01.2022 Well done to all the Dads who gave it their best in the Pole Dancing Fitness competition and congratulations to our winner Brett McPharlin! Check out Bretts moves here

16.01.2022 The top two Democrats in Congress have called for President Donald Trump to be removed from office, one day after his supporters stormed and vandalised the US Capitol in a harrowing assault on American democracy.

16.01.2022 As if there wasn't enough trouble in Tigerland...

16.01.2022 Will Pucovski has made the most assured Test debut by an Australian batsman since 35-year-old run machine Adam Voges got a belated call-up in 2015, writes The West's John Townsend.

16.01.2022 Two East Kimberley men have been jailed for violently attacking a younger relative in a hotel lobby in broad daylight and leaving him fighting for his life.

16.01.2022 Victoria has recorded three new locally acquired coronavirus cases as long queues form again outside testing sites.

15.01.2022 WA Liberal powerbroker and conservative Nick Goiran is again trying to stifle the McGowan Governments agenda this time using his influence in the Upper House to prevent a royal commission recommendation that would make it a crime if a priest failed to tell police when someone confessed a child sex crime to them.

15.01.2022 Mark McGowan has given his strongest indication yet that he will reveal the identity of the State’s next treasurer only after West Australians have cast their votes in 10 weeks’ time.

15.01.2022 Mark McGowan says WA authorities are on alert after a hotel quarantine cleaner in Brisbane tested positive for the fast-spreading UK variant of COVID-19.

15.01.2022 Kylie Jenner is officially the world's highest paid celebrity. (We bet half of you just said "who?")

15.01.2022 ICYMI: Richmond premiership coach Damien Hardwick’s new relationship with a younger colleague is causing tension within the club.

15.01.2022 Hundreds of thousands of Australian businesses are still relying on JobKeeper payments to survive despite the fortnightly amounts being cut again.

14.01.2022 Hamish Brayshaws elevation to AFL football will be the cream on the cake for the famous footballing family, and his dad Mark says it will dramatically enhance his enjoyment of all of his childrens careers.

14.01.2022 Grants of up to $250,000 will soon be on offer in a bid to help revive Australias crippled tourism industry.

14.01.2022 The International Olympic Committee has confidence in its preparations and in Japanese government support for next years Tokyo Olympics, but said all scenarios would be discussed in the coming weeks amid the ongoing pandemic.

14.01.2022 The "life-changing" program for Indigenous girls is returning next month.

14.01.2022 Thousands of Australians stranded overseas will now be able to get back home after Scott Morrison announced the re-opening of the Northern Territory’s Howard Springs Facility.

13.01.2022 In the midst of Shinju Matsuri festivities, the dirt track at Broome Speedway was packed with huge crowds as rev heads from all over WA flocked to the town for a huge weekend.

13.01.2022 A fast-spreading variant of COVID-19 from the United Kingdom has been detected in Perth’s hotel quarantine system.

13.01.2022 Leading criminal lawyers have panned the WA Liberals’ support for automatic jail terms for meth dealers, with Perth-based Tom Percy QC labelling the hardline policy frankly ridiculous.

13.01.2022 Jehovah’s Witnesses face being stripped of their charity tax exemptions after failing to sign up to the redress scheme to pay compensation to child sexual abuse survivors.

13.01.2022 EMOTIONAL HOMECOMING The mother of the 11-week-old Broome baby who died from whooping cough in 1990s opened up on her emotional return to the Kimberley town, where she finally felt at peace.

12.01.2022 Biologically male prisoners who identify as transgender can apply to be placed in female prisons and vice versa under a new Department of Justice policy that came into effect this week.

12.01.2022 Ken Wyatt says race discussions in Australian have become so divisive that the threats from extremists on both sides of politics are now as dangerous as each other.

12.01.2022 WA’s hard border with Queensland will be put back into place.

12.01.2022 Does your favourite AFL club have the most members?

12.01.2022 Australia’s unemployment rate has increased to 6.9 per cent with an additional 11,300 people losing their jobs over the past month.

12.01.2022 US President Donald Trump has finally conceded the presidency, while vowing to make violent protesters pay for their involvement in the US Capitol riots.

11.01.2022 ICYMI: The Royal Flying Doctor Service has declared its largest regional base will put alternative service arrangements in place after a fire caused extensive damage to its main building.

11.01.2022 Four months after being arrested by major crime detectives and charged with unlawful conduct, two Broome-based lawyers are still yet to enter a plea.

11.01.2022 WA’s health system has been given a wake-up call after a paramedic, a nurse and a worker at Perth Airport who came into contact with the same returned UK traveller infected with COVID-19 all breached PPE protocols.

11.01.2022 Scott Morrison has warned WA against getting too confident in fighting COVID-19 because of its hard border and ignoring other practices like contact tracing.

11.01.2022 Did you spot a few familiar footy faces around town last week?

11.01.2022 Quarantine-free travel from South Australia to WA will likely start on Christmas Day, Mark McGowan has announced.

11.01.2022 The WA Liberals have ruled out a repeat of the party’s disastrous 2017 preference swap deal with One Nation.

11.01.2022 A Broome teenager has become the latest young cricketer to impress outside of the Kimberley town after becoming the sole teen from the region selected for a recent training camp.

11.01.2022 A magistrate says the criminal justice system is sending the terrible message it is OK to bash your missus, with at least 80 per cent of family violence trials in the Kimberley dropped by police because victims are too scared or disillusioned to give evidence.

11.01.2022 The US Capitol has been locked down after protesters breached barricades amid violent clashes between President Donald Trump's supporters and Capitol police.

11.01.2022 Australian parents will be slugged with a 10 per cent increase on back to school costs as retailers fight to fulfil their shopping lists.

10.01.2022 NOTE: Due to the bad weather, there has been a delay in paper delivery today.

10.01.2022 After staying home and pottering around in parks, we embraced our big backyard. Where will you be travelling to this year?

10.01.2022 Scott Morrison says he will "exercise great caution" in the language he uses to talk about the war crimes inquiry and "understands the point" of Sydney radio host Ray Hadley who criticised Defence Minister Linda Reynolds for describing the allegations as "cold blooded murder".

10.01.2022 Colts matches will return to Subiaco Oval as part of the WA Football Commission’s plan to build the sport’s new home at the historic ground.

10.01.2022 Premier Mark McGowan won’t attend the first in-person National Cabinet meeting to avoid being in the same room as his South Australian counterpart.

10.01.2022 A Perth driver is in the doghouse with WA Police after officers caught them taking a photo of a pet pooch sitting on their lap whilst driving.

09.01.2022 Australians will start receiving COVID-19 vaccinations next month, with hotel quarantine staff and aged-care workers at the front of the queue to get to the jab under the fast-tracked plan.

09.01.2022 Today's Broome Advertiser is out now!

09.01.2022 Will you be booking your trip if this goes ahead?

09.01.2022 While there was lots to like in a footy sense, Fremantle prevailing 5.7 (37) to 4.3 (27), there was also a lot to take in on and off the field. Here’s what we noticed.

09.01.2022 A Derby man has been fined $1000 for breaching his self-quarantine to go food shopping.

09.01.2022 The Morrison Government have finally announced the new service providers for the Girls Academy program, following the shock announcement two weeks ago that former Wildcat Ricky Grace had not secured funding as the primary service provider.

08.01.2022 A love of womens football and art has resulted in a local artists work being recognised among the best of Broomes art scene in the midst of Shinju Matsuri celebrations.

08.01.2022 EDITORIAL: Just in case anybody was getting carried away with the apparent positive trajectory of the fight against COVID-19 as the new year arrived, it is time to take stock.

08.01.2022 The Dockers will field a dramatically different team in 2021 to the one that finished 2020 if they can get their injury list under control, writes Braden Quartermaine.

08.01.2022 ICYMI: The brave first responder who pulled Broome shark attack victim Charles Cernobori out of bloodied water as a massive dorsal trailed behind them has recalled the heartbreaking scenes as he realised he was witnessing the man’s final moments.

07.01.2022 STILL MISSING Balgo Police are continuing their search for missing Northern Territory boy Tristan Frank, 14. A post by Kimberley District Police said he was las...t seen at 10am on December 3 in the remote community of Balgo and his whereabouts are now unknown. Tristan is described as 160 cm, slight build, dark brown hair and dark coloured eyes. Police are asking anyone with information to contact 131444 and quote IR: 061220 1140 7009. See more

07.01.2022 Backpackers currently in Western Australia should be permitted to extend their visas for a further year to avoid exacerbating a growing shortage of hospitality workers.

07.01.2022 AFL boss Gillon McLachlan remained silent today on the turmoil engulfing Richmond after the Tigers’ premiership coach Damien Hardwick’s relationship with a female colleague was revealed.

07.01.2022 Who do we keep up with now? After more than a decade, reality TV juggernaut Keeping Up With the Kardashians will be ending its run next year.

06.01.2022 A tour around town to showcase the reality of Broomes grog problem, a special visit by footy stars past and present and a whos who of WA food get amongst the Shinju Matsuri festivities. All that and more inside this weeks Broome Advertiser, out now!

06.01.2022 A 47-year-old man has been ordered to pay his partner $2000 in compensation after a rage-induced ransacking of her Kimberley rental home.

06.01.2022 The movie adaption of a best-selling crime novel has enjoyed one of the biggest opening weekends ever for an Australian film.

06.01.2022 WIN ONE OF TWO EXCLUSIVE DOUBLE PASSES TO THE BROOME PREMIERE OF DIRT MUSIC Look inside tomorrows Broome Advertiser for the codeword and be one of the first to call 9191 9700 at 10am on Friday to win the tickets, thanks to Universal Pictures. Based on the Classic Australian Novel by Tim Winton, Dirt Music is a gripping, sexy drama with a haunting love story at its heart, set against the powerful backdrop of Western Australias evocative landscape, including our beautiful K...imberley. The Broome premiere will be held at Sun Pictures on Monday night. @universalpicsau #DirtMusicMovie @DirtMusicMovie

06.01.2022 The father of a soldier killed in Afghanistan who faces having one of his son’s awards revoked as part of the fallout from the inquiry into allegations of war crimes says the decision is a kick in the guts that unfairly hurts those who have done nothing wrong.

06.01.2022 WA Premier Mark McGowan this morning confirmed the state will shut its borders to Queensland from midnight amid Brisbane’s COVID-19 lockdown. Here’s how the border closure will impact local teams across different codes.

05.01.2022 International passengers returning to Australia will now be required to provide a pre-flight negative COVID test, while masks will become compulsory on all flights, under new National Cabinet measures.

05.01.2022 Australian cricket coach Justin Langer has revealed that he has been suffering hearing problems so debilitating that he considered giving up his job with the national team.

05.01.2022 Facebook has not deleted or suspended the accounts of users who posted a suicide video that went so viral WA schools resorted to telling parents to keep their children offline.

05.01.2022 Novak Djokovic has reportedly sent Australian Open boss Craig Tiley a letter with six points he would like actioned for frustrated players who are in lockdown in Melbourne.

05.01.2022 Teenagers from disadvantaged areas are missing out on the chance to study literary classics by Shakespeare, Dickens or Austen because their schools do not offer literature as an ATAR course.

05.01.2022 An internal Department of Communities document leaked to The West Australian reveals new details about the Governments monitored list the cases deemed low risk and not allocated their own case worker.

05.01.2022 The AFL has officially confirmed West Coasts first week final will be played at Optus Stadium provided the Eagles finish fifth on the ladder, but the league has ruled-out any other games in WA.

05.01.2022 Fremantle captain Nat Fyfe will still present the Brownlow Medal to this year’s winner on Sunday night, regardless of which state the crowning moment occurs.

04.01.2022 The West Australian journalists have received two Walkley award nominations.

04.01.2022 All international travellers coming to Australia would be forced to have pre-flight coronavirus tests and wear masks under sweeping recommendations to be made by the nation’s health chiefs.

04.01.2022 Andrew ‘Twiggy’ Forrest’s Minderoo Foundation will work to halve the risk of fire and flood disasters in Australia’s most vulnerable regions by 2025.

04.01.2022 Zak Kirkup is poised to replace Liza Harvey as leader of a WA Liberal Party that looks set to embrace youth and a changing of the guard over the political experience offered of Dean Nalder.

04.01.2022 The power of Instagram to put a restaurant on the map for one viral dish may be changing the way we eat, with experts warning a social media diet of super-rich, calorie-laden meals could normalise eating that way.

04.01.2022 Have you watched Bridgerton yet?

03.01.2022 Phil Spector, the music producer who went from the Wall of Sound to the walls of a California prison cell, has died. He was 81.

03.01.2022 The abandoned AFL women’s decider would have kicked off a festival of football culminating in a Perth grand final next weekend had the marquee fixture been awarded to Optus Stadium.

03.01.2022 The number of reported thefts across luxury resorts in Cable Beach has risen dramatically in the past three months.

03.01.2022 WA is in a state of confusion about its hard border after 24 hours of chaotic mixed messaging from Chief Health Officer Andy Robertson, Premier Mark McGowan and Health Minister Roger Cook.

02.01.2022 A Broome man has been fined $750 for growing two cannabis plants as an experiment with his own stash of the drug.

02.01.2022 The Federal Government will delay introducing its long-awaited Religious Freedoms Bill until next year.

02.01.2022 Potential border closures threaten to extinguish a rebound by WA cruise lines as the season nears a sell-out.

02.01.2022 The new year is a time where many of us start thinking about self improvement. Here's some tips to help get you there in 2021.

02.01.2022 Another day, another Clive Palmer lawsuit.

01.01.2022 Shire of Broome president Harold Tracey has spoken of how he took Racing and Gaming Minister Paul Papalia to Broomes alcohol abuse hotspots just one day before he announced his intention for a banned drinkers register.

01.01.2022 Sydney Swans Elijah Taylor will face court after being charged with assaulting an 18-year-old woman who is known to him at a Perth hotel early yesterday morning.

01.01.2022 While turning the page on our calendars is a chance for a fresh start, the concept of new year’s resolutions is often loaded with feelings of pressure and guilt.