These Australians have been 'ignored and forgotten' in the housing crisis
A class action has been filed against the West Australian government on behalf of thousands of tenants living in substandard public housing in remote Aboriginal communities.
Rosanne Maloney is a reporter at ABC Kimberley, based in Broome. She was previously the Communities reporter at ABC Melbourne after finishing an ABC news cadetship in 2022. Prior to her cadetship, she did a short stint reporting with ABC Ballarat and as a radio reporter in Melbourne. She tweets at @rosannemmaloney.
A class action has been filed against the West Australian government on behalf of thousands of tenants living in substandard public housing in remote Aboriginal communities.
Adrian Lane helped alert border force to the presence of multiple Indonesian fishing boats at Kuri Bay, but the Dambimangari man is frustrated more than a dozen fishers are yet to face any criminal charges.
The Skill Engineer program in the Kimberley town uses e-scooter construction and maintenance to teach at-risk youth critical skills.
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The union representing child protection staff says workers in the Kimberley are disillusioned and employed by a system that is struggling to achieve positive outcomes for families.
Hundreds of people participate in a reconciliation walk marking the start of NAIDOC Week and share their pride in Indigenous culture in the Kimberley.
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The Committee on the Elimination of Racial Discrimination says the Cook government's botched rollout and reversal of changes to the state's heritage laws could constitute a breach of international convention.
More than a year since James Hester and Halimah James lost their son in the record-breaking Kimberley floods, they're still waiting for answers about why there was access to a destroyed bridge.
Despite a government spotlight on juvenile crime in WA's Kimberley region, youth crime prevention programs like Together We Ride are struggling to continue due to a lack of steady funding.
Details of the deaths on a pastoral property the state's far north in November last year were discussed in parliament this week, with the Greens describing the late disclosure as "disappointing".
Police have charged three men after more than $250,000 worth of cattle were allegedly stolen from a pastoral station in northern WA.
A Broome magistrate says WA's child protection system is ill-equipped to deal with vulnerable children, as he hands down a teen's sentence in court.
Dozens of West Australian police and State Emergency Service personnel have spent the past seven days scouring dense bush and marshland for Zane Stevens.
In the heart of Gooniyandi country, hundreds of Kimberley women gathered to connect with culture, undertaking activities like making sandals and bush medicine with materials from country.
Schools and tertiary study centres must re-educate Australians after "heartbreaking" lack of awareness about plight of First Nations people led to the failed Voice referendum, leading Indigenous women say.
Refugee advocates are concerned the men are being denied access to human rights websites, have been stripped of the ability to use messaging apps to contact loved ones, and are experiencing high levels of distress and anxiety.