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It’s been a turbulent week for independent newspapers in Perth but things are looking up for the western suburbs-based Post Newspapers, which is celebrating its first independently printed paper today.
Post Newspapers editor Bret Christian and a consortium of unnamed businesspeople set up the ‘Fair Maiden’ printing press to tackle the monopoly held by Seven West Media-owned Colourpress after the closure of the state’s second last printing press in 2023.
The Fair Maiden’s entry into the small market saw Examiner Newspapers and the Echo newspapers jump ship and the Fremantle Herald/ Perth Voice take an almighty swipe at Seven West last week as negotiations over a new printing deal broke down.
The Fair Maiden’s first print run was last week and the Echo and Examiner Newspapers made it out the door, but the Post did not.
On the front page of today’s Post Christian confirmed a “mechanical glitch” prevented the papers from being printed but that had now been resolved and the paper would be delivered this week.
“Start up issues are to be expected for such an enormous challenge and change,” he said.
Police say they are looking at the possibility that missing German backpacker Carolina Wilga left her vehicle after it broke down in WA’s Wheatbelt.
Wilga has been missing since June 28, after she last contacted friends.
The ABC reported a voice message, left by Wilga to a friend late on the day she was last heard from, indicated she intended to leave Perth.
WA Police Acting Inspector Jessica Securo told ABC Radio Perth the most likely theory in the search for the 26-year-old was that she had abandoned her vehicle.
“Our information to date is she’s likely to become lost in that area, and has potentially walked away from her vehicle,” she said.
Securo said the car was found a significant distance away from tracks in the Karroun Hill Nature Reserve, which is home to a number of rocky outcrops.
In a photo released by WA Police, it can be seen with recovery boards wedged under the wheels and surrounded by dense scrubland.
“You can see how it would be easy to become lost or disorientated in that area if you didn’t know it well,” she said.
“Her vehicle was located at least about 35 kilometres inland from any main tracks, so it is dense around there.”
The van was well-equipped, with water and solar panels.
Securo said it was hard to know if Wilga had taken anything with her, but police would forensically work through her car throughout Friday.
The search for Wilga is continuing.
It’s been a turbulent week for independent newspapers in Perth but things are looking up for the western suburbs-based Post Newspapers, which is celebrating its first independently printed paper today.
Post Newspapers editor Bret Christian and a consortium of unnamed businesspeople set up the ‘Fair Maiden’ printing press to tackle the monopoly held by Seven West Media-owned Colourpress after the closure of the state’s second last printing press in 2023.
The Fair Maiden’s entry into the small market saw Examiner Newspapers and the Echo newspapers jump ship and the Fremantle Herald/ Perth Voice take an almighty swipe at Seven West last week as negotiations over a new printing deal broke down.
The Fair Maiden’s first print run was last week and the Echo and Examiner Newspapers made it out the door, but the Post did not.
On the front page of today’s Post Christian confirmed a “mechanical glitch” prevented the papers from being printed but that had now been resolved and the paper would be delivered this week.
“Start up issues are to be expected for such an enormous challenge and change,” he said.
New Zealand pop icon Lorde is touring her home country and Australia, and will cap it off with a final show in Perth in February.
The singer, who shot to stardom in 2013 with her breakthrough alt-pop hit Royals, is touring behind her new album Virgin, which debuted at #1 on Spotify in New Zealand and Australia.
It features the single What Was That, which hit #1 on Spotify in the US – #5 globally – and was her first original release.
Lorde’s Ultrasound World Tour is her first time playing in Australia and NZ since 2023, and will begin with a concert at Spark Arena in Auckland on February 11.
She’ll take to the stage at RAC Arena for her final show of the tour on Wednesday, February 25, bringing to a close a hectic two weeks which will also feature shows at Rod Laver Arena in Melbourne and Qudos Bank Arena in Sydney.
Tickets go on sale next week.
A new lithium mine almost 700 kilometres north-east of Perth has officially opened – playing the long game despite a long-term lithium price plunge.
Owned by Liontown Resources, the $1 billion Kathleen Valley site in the Goldfields is the country’s first dedicated underground lithium mine.
It has been quietly running for a year, but was officially opened by federal Resources Minister Madeleine King and WA Mines Minister David Michael on Thursday.
You can hear more about the mine, and some of the issues faced by the lithium industry, below.
There has been yet another fatal crash on WA roads overnight.
A car smashed into a tree at the intersection of Mandurah Road and Watersun Drive in Meadow Springs around 9.30pm last night.
The impact crushed the entire front section of the vehicle and split the tree in two.
Emergency services attended the scene. The driver, believed to be male, received critical injuries in the crash and has died.
Major Crash officers have cornered off the road and are now conducting an examination of the scene.
They are appealing to any witnesses to come forward or contact Crime Stoppers.
The incident marks the 12th death on WA roads in just one week.
Here’s what’s making headlines elsewhere today:
Good morning readers, and welcome to our live news blog for Friday, July 11.
Making headlines today is the culmination of a long-running bid to secure World Heritage listing for ancient Aboriginal rock art petroglyphs located along the Pilbara coast.
An intense international lobbying fight between the Commonwealth and traditional owners will come to a head on Friday as a UNESCO committee decides whether to grant the Burrup Peninsula’s Murujuga cultural landscape World Heritage status.
The bid was dealt a major blow in May, when the International Council on Monuments and Sites recommended it go back to the Australian government to address concerns about the impact of nearby industrialisation and emissions.
Hamish Hastie has the full story. You can read it here.
Meanwhile, police have found an abandoned car in their search for missing German backpacker Carolina Wilga in WA’s Wheatbelt region.
Wilga went missing 12 days ago, after she was last seen in the Beacon area about 330 kilometres outside of Perth.
Police said they located the Mitsubishi Delica car abandoned at 1pm on Thursday, but they have still not found the missing 26-year-old.
“The vehicle was located abandoned in the Karroun Hill area, in the north-east Wheatbelt region of Western Australia, and is believed to have suffered mechanical issues,” a spokesperson said.
Wilga was not at the scene. You can read more about that story here, and we will bring you the latest on the search as it happens.
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