AIR-conditioning will not be installed at Roebourne Prison where inmates sleep, often on mattresses on the floor, in 35C-plus temperatures and eat meals in unhygienic conditions. WA Inspector of Custodial Services Eamon Ryan found though improvements were made since his…
“I DON’T think my heart is in it anymore,” Geoff Van Waardenberg says before starting his night shift surveying rail lines out of Perth. “I find it hard to talk about Cossack, I’m so disappointed. It’s killed us.” The 49-year-old…
RETIRED medico Alan Wilson, 73, says all there is of Cossack is its history. “There are not too many places in Australia where you have nothing but the history of a town,” Dr Wilson said of the heritage-listed townsite 1500km…
LOCAL council has walked away. The State Government moves in as ‘absent landlord’. And private landowners once again find themselves between a rock and a hard place. Do they sell out or hang on in the hope they be able,…
THEY have paid rates, fees and government charges for decades. Occasionally, they stand on their empty blocks overlooking Butcher’s Inlet at the mouth of the Harding River, and ask why. What is the point of waiting any longer for local…
DRIVEWAYS at dawn. This year, thousands of Pilbara residents from Exmouth to Karratha and Port Hedland to Newman and Tom Price will honour Anzac Day - at the end of their driveways. Observing COVID-19 distancing, they will pause at first…
THE arrival of thousands of people on cruise ships in Fremantle has left remote communities in WA anxious over the movement of potentially infected FIFO workers in the Pilbara. Social media sites, local radio and TV and conversations at shopping…
THE City of Karratha will walk away from managing historic Cossack and Jarman Island after councillors tonight voted to ‘hand the keys back’ to the State Government. The unanimous vote followed a brief discussion on whether the City was prepared…
COSSACK landowners today called on WA parliament to explain why they cannot develop their freehold properties after two decades of promises to repopulate the historic town near Karratha. Greens Mining and Pastoral Region MLC Robin Chapple, in questions to Regional…
