Prisoners in Western Australia are living in ‘cruel, inhuman or degrading’ conditions, report warns
By Australian Associated Press

Inspector of custodial services says inmates are sleeping on the floor and denied basic entitlements due to ‘a systemic failure across multiple prisons’

https://www.theguardian.com/australia-news/2026/jun/10/wa-prisons-cruel-inhuman-degrading-conditions-western-australia

#WesternAustralia #Prisons #Australianews #AustralianAssociatedPress

Concerns over US company’s plan to frack world’s most intact tropical savanna in WA revealed
By Lisa Cox Environment and climate correspondent

Federal environment department says Black Mountain Energy has provided insufficient data as it seeks to drill 20 gas wells in the Kimberley region

https://www.theguardian.com/australia-news/2026/jun/10/wa-fracking-gas-us-company-federal-environment-department-concern

#WesternAustralia #Fracking #Environment #Australianews #Energy #Gas #Fossilfuels #LisaCoxEnvironment #climatecorrespondent

Documents reveal concerns over US company’s proposed gas fracking in WA’s Kimberley region
By Lisa Cox Environment and climate correspondent

Federal environment department says Black Mountain Energy has provided insufficient data as it seeks to drill 20 gas wells in part of world’s largest tropical savanna

https://www.theguardian.com/australia-news/2026/jun/10/wa-fracking-gas-us-company-federal-environment-department-concern

#WesternAustralia #Fracking #Environment #Australianews #Energy #Gas #Fossilfuels #LisaCoxEnvironment #climatecorrespondent

West Australian prisoners are being subjected to "cruel, inhumane or degrading treatment" because the government has allowed the state's prison system to become "almost functionally broken".

That is the stark conclusion of a report released today by the state's Inspector of Custodial Services, Eamon Ryan, who said the same factors which led to a major prison riot in 2018 exist across three prisons today.

It has prompted him to take the unprecedented step of issuing a show cause notice — effectively a demand for the government to explain itself — over conditions inside Hakea, Casuarina and Melaleuca prisons.

#auspol #westernAustralia #prisons

https://www.abc.net.au/news/2026-06-09/damning-report-released-on-wa-prisons/106775446

Elusive gull drifts thousands of kilometres off course to Australia, turning birdwatching into ‘extreme sport’
By Ima Caldwell

‘Twitchers’ rush to coastal Western Australia to see black-headed gull, which usually flies between Europe and Asia

https://www.theguardian.com/environment/2026/jun/08/elusive-gull-drifts-thousands-of-kilometres-off-course-to-australia-turning-birdwatching-into-extreme-sport

#Birds #WesternAustralia #Australianews #Environment #Animals #Birdwatching #ImaCaldwell

Kerry Stoke's candidate for "Premier of WA", a jock-minor-celebrity-radio-show-turned-mayor-now-boosted-on-Stoke's-newpapers-and-tv-stations-into-the-leader-of-an-emaciated-WA-Liberal-Party gropes for "points of relevance".
More lighting on trains.
Uranium mining.
Respect One Nation.
Reliable toilet paper.
More shopping.

(Actually which party does support reliable .. oh never mind.)
#KerryStokes #Perth #PerthWA #WA #BasilZempilas #WesternAustralia #OneNation
https://www.abc.net.au/news/2026-06-08/wa-opposition-leader-basil-zempilas-has-open-mind-on-one-nation/106771750