It’s time this west coast chart-topper got the fame it deserves

It’s time this west coast chart-topper got the fame it deserves

It was 1975. Queen was competing with Pink Floyd and Led Zeppelin in the charts. And in WA,a new agency was compiling its own “the best of the best” list.

  • byPaul Gamblin

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I lapped Australia in a caravan and signed a book deal in the same year

I lapped Australia in a caravan and signed a book deal in the same year

As I set off on the adventure of a lifetime,I never dreamed my writing career was also set to soar.

  • byClaire van Ryn
Tim Winton’s Ningaloo documentary launches in Exmouth

Tim Winton’s Ningaloo documentary launches in Exmouth

More than 100 Exmouth locals have gathered for the launch of Tim Winton’s three-part ‘love letter’ documentary Ningaloo Nyinggulu,airing on the ABC on Tuesday.

  • byEmma Young
Why Tim Winton is happy he never moved to Melbourne
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Why Tim Winton is happy he never moved to Melbourne

In an exclusive interview,the author tells of 40 years spent helping develop and protect Australian publishing,and where he lives has everything to do with it.

  • byEmma Young
‘Absolutely stunning’:Total solar eclipse wows Exmouth as moon and sun put on a show
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‘Absolutely stunning’:Total solar eclipse wows Exmouth as moon and sun put on a show

Exmouth went dark at 11.29am this morning as the moon’s path of totality cross WA’s North West Cape.

  • byHamish Hastie andHolly Thompson
Woodside’s toxic risk oil tower slowly sinking near Ningaloo Reef

Woodside’s toxic risk oil tower slowly sinking near Ningaloo Reef

A steel tower likely containing toxic chemicals could sink to the seabed after its removal was delayed for four years by Woodside’s lack of maintenance.

  • byPeter Milne
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The WA coastal town bracing for 18,000 visitors - 10 times its population

The WA coastal town bracing for 18,000 visitors - 10 times its population

The first inkling of the pending influx came about three years ago when an American woman tried to book the entire caravan park. But authorities have a more practical concern,urgently trying to bolster the town’s sewerage capacity.

  • byHamish Hastie
Tim Winton on a blue groper,a novel – and his life-imitates-art moment

Tim Winton on a blue groper,a novel – and his life-imitates-art moment

With his novel,Blueback,now a movie,the author reflects on how his love of the sea has evolved – and what he’s prepared to do to protect it.

  • byTim Winton
‘Shark cams’ reveal Ningaloo sea turtles freeze to escape predators’ gaze

‘Shark cams’ reveal Ningaloo sea turtles freeze to escape predators’ gaze

Scientists attached cameras to the dorsal fins of sharks at Ningaloo Reef in WA and altered the resulting vision to see through the “eye of the tiger”.

  • byPeter de Kruijff
Woodside and fishing lobby planned to dump structure with toxic chemicals near Ningaloo
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Woodside and fishing lobby planned to dump structure with toxic chemicals near Ningaloo

A plan to use old Woodside equipment for an artificial reef near WA’s Ningaloo Reef in WA could have endangered the health of people who ate fish caught there.

  • byPeter Milne
As WA coral bleaches,the warning signs can no longer be ignored
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As WA coral bleaches,the warning signs can no longer be ignored

What may have seemed hypothetical and far away is here,now,in our backyard. You can wade into the water near Exmouth or off the Pilbara and see what hot water is doing to our reefs.

  • byPaul Gamblin