WA Planning Minister Rita Saffioti has rejected Karratha council plans to reactivate the historic town of Cossack - leaving landowners furious. Ms Saffioti wrote to CEO Chris Adams on September 6 stating it had not demonstrated the impact of coastal hazards,…
UNIONS played a vital role in building the social infrastructure Karratha needed after it was gazetted on August 8, 1969. Industrial chaos raged across the Pilbara. In the weeks leading up to the gazetting of the new townsite, thousands of…
OIL and gas giant Woodside discovered the North Rankin gas field about 135km northwest of Dampier just two years after Karratha was gazetted. The Goodwyn and Angel fields were discovered in 1972 and together, these resources formed the basis of…
MURUJUGA is the traditional Aboriginal name for the Dampier Archipelago and Burrup Peninsula. It means, ‘hip bone sticking out’, in the Ngarluma Yaburara language. Acting on a request by Murujuga Aboriginal Corporation, and described as, “a significant moment in the…
PILBARA MLA Kevin Michael says “long-term and sustainable optimism” has returned to the Pilbara after years of neglect by the previous Liberal-National Government. Mr Michael told Parliament on Wednesday since the Labor Government entered office the Pilbara’s population had stabilised,…
KARRATHA City tonight moved to allow off-the-grid developments at the historic site of Cossack, about 1480km north of Perth. The unanimous vote to adopt town planning scheme amendment No. 44 ends decades of frustration for land owners who have battled…
THE Inspector of Custodial Services in WA will make an ‘announced’ visit to Roebourne prison in May. He will be met at the correctional facility described as the worst in the State by a scorched ring of hills burnt in…
Having spent almost a decade as a local government councilor and several years as a high school teacher, I’m focused on our local community and our future. I want to be a strong voice for the people of Fremantle and…
WESTERN Australia’s earliest settlers lived and died at ‘Clarence Town’ near Woodman Point from 1829 to 1831. The State heritage-listed colonial ‘treasure’ remains undisturbed. Until now. StreetWise visited the abandoned ghost town near Fremantle where Outer Harbour proponents want to…
