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A child has been taken to Tom Price hospital after falling at Dales Gorge in Karijini National Park.
Crews were called to the popular natural attraction just before midday, with Tom Price SES and the local bushfire brigade carrying the child out.
St John Ambulance took the child to hospital, and they arrived at 4pm to be treated for non-life threatening injuries.
It is understood the child slipped and fell at the popular hiking trail, which leads visitors to the picturesque Fortescue Falls and Fern Pool.
Karijini may be one of the north-west’s most popular tourist drawcards, but it is also among our most remote, accessible only via unsealed roads in the middle of the unforgiving Pilbara.
Dales Gorge is about an hour’s drive from Tom Price.
WA’s road toll has climbed once again after a man on an e-scooter was fatally struck by a truck in Bibra Lake this morning.
The 35-year-old rider collided with the Isuzu truck at the intersection of Walliabup Way and Bibra Drive around 10.40am.
He was rushed to Fiona Stanley Hospital in a critical condition but sadly could not be saved.
The WA road toll is 108 following several deaths over the weekend and another yesterday in Yornup.
It is 30 per cent higher than what is average for this time of year (83).
Anyone with information about the Bibra Lake incident is asked to contact Crime Stoppers.
Readers may remember the Mother’s Day meteorite which landed in WA’s Wheatbelt in May – well Curtin University’s Desert Fireball Network has been studying the space rock ever since it was tracked to salt flats on Lake Hope and have discovered it is from a rare orbit.
Preliminary findings suggest the rock is an LL ordinary chondrite, a somewhat rare type of meteorite similar to one which fell over Russian in 2013 which generated a shockwave causing more than $50 million in property damages.
DFN team member Mia Walker was the first to spot the meteor’s fragments after a lengthy search in the outback.
“This is such an exciting find. These pieces of space rock have been travelling the solar system for 4.5 billion years, and now we can use them for science,” she said.
There are only about 60 meteorites globally that we have orbital information for, this rock is the 10th of that type in Australia.
Believed to have come from a “particularly interesting orbit”, and holding invaluable information, the rock will be on display at the WA Museum Boola Bardip this week for space enthusiasts to see for themselves.
A shark warning has been issued for Jurien Bay after a whale carcass was reported floating at the boat harbour.
The carcass was discovered around 8.35am this morning, with Parks and Wildlife officers warning the mammal could attract sharks to the area.
Ocean users are asked to take additional cautions with beaches one kilometre either side of the carcass closed until at least tomorrow.
Authorities continue to monitor the situation.
Sydney’s majestic Moreton Bay and Port Jackson figs could be decimated along with up to 4000 plane trees casting shade and greenery along the city’s streets if an invasive tunnelling beetle hitches a ride across the Nullarbor from its stronghold here in Perth.
Last month, the WA government admitted it had lost a multimillion-dollar fight to eradicate the polyphagous shot-hole borer, a tiny beetle originally from South-East Asia that has devastated 4500 trees in Perth, including 20 towering much-loved figs that were chainsawed and mulched.
Now plant pathologist and chief scientist of the Royal Botanic Gardens, Professor Brett Summerell, has sounded the alarm over the urgent biosecurity threat the beetle poses to Sydney.
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Local Government Minister Hannah Beazley says she hopes the Nedlands council reflects on its behaviour as she prepares to officially dissolve it following the resignation of four councillors on Monday.
Speaking to Radio 6PR, Beazley said the City of Nedlands has been plagued for a long time by dysfunction and disunity, and made it clear it needed to clean up its act.
“I would encourage all of the affected councillors to rest and reset and hopefully do a bit of reflection on their behaviour and their service to their community to date,” she said.
Councillors Ben Hodson, Noel Youngman, Fergus Bennett and Hengameh Amiry all tendered their resignation on Monday, leaving the council without a quorum, which paved the way for Beazley to intervene.
Beazley’s comments came after Nedlands Mayor Fiona Argyle gave an extraordinary interview on ABC Radio on Monday afternoon, where she said the resignations marked a fantastic day for the council.
Argyle accused the other councillors of working against her and rubbished the continued controversy over the city’s opposition to a children’s hospice and adjacent play area in Swanbourne.
“No one on this planet is against dying children, no one hates dying children, everyone loves dying children,” she said.
“What I don’t like, and the city doesn’t like, it was a unanimous decision, that is the city’s land.
“It’s like giving away Hyde Park, Jardin du Luxembourg, the Royal National Park in Sydney.
“If anyone accuses me of bad behaviour or defamation I’ll sue them, because I have been nothing but a good mayor.”
A coronial inquest into the suspected death of missing surfer Steven Payne has just begun in Perth.
Payne, 37, was surfing at Wharton Beach, near Esperance on March 10 when he was attacked by a large shark about 60 metres offshore.
His body was never recovered, but Acting Sergeant Craig Robertson confirmed his family and police had “no doubt” he died, with the attack witnessed by his girlfriend and recorded on a tourist’s drone.
The inquest revealed Payne, who was an avid surfer, had debated wearing his shark deterrent device in the water, but had decided it wasn’t needed.
The conditions in the water were “crystal clear” with his girlfriend glancing up from her spot on the beach to see a commotion in the water around 1.5 hours into the pair being at the beach.
“It took her a few seconds to realise she was witnessing a shark attacking a surfer,” Robertson said.
“She ran to the shore shouting to alert others of the shark’s presence, but did not think that it was Steven being attacked as the surfboard she could see looked too short to be his.
“At that time there were only two other surfers in the water. [The girlfriend] then realised that the commotion was where she had last seen Steven and the victim of the attack was wearing the same distinctive sun hat that he wore.
“From what she witnessed, [the girlfriend] immediately knew that Steven was dead.”
Police who have viewed the drone vision, which happened to capture the incident also agreed there was “no doubt” Payne had died.
“The attack concluded by the shark dragging Steven down into the large circle of blood-stained water that surrounded them. He was never seen to resurface following that,” Robertson said.
While a search failed to recover Payne’s body, his surfboard with a bite mark was recovered, and parts of his wetsuit and his wide brim hat washed up on the shore the following day.
DNA testing of the recovered materials confirmed the presence of a great white shark. A Fisheries official estimated the shark was around 3.2 to 3.5 metres long.
Three people are fighting for life after a road train and three-car crash in Mount Cooke injured five people yesterday.
Emergency services had to cut two people out of their vehicles, with three rushed by ambulance to Royal Perth Hospital where they remain in a critical condition today.
The patients are two women, aged 70 and 83, and a man, aged 75.
A woman aged in her 30s and a child received minor injuries in the crash.
WA Police are investigating the incident, which occurred on Albany Highway around 3pm yesterday.
Jetstar flights from Perth to Bali have resumed this morning after Monday afternoon’s flights were cancelled due to a volcano eruption spewing ash into the sky.
Safety concerns forced the cancellation of two flights, but this morning, a Jetstar flight took off at 7.40am.
There are 10 scheduled flights from Perth to Bali today via several airlines. So far only one, an AirAsia flight this morning, has been cancelled.