📽FLASHBACK FRIDAY📽 Flashing back more than thirty years this week, to 1988's bicentennial celebrations and Jana Wendt going live to Fitzroy Crossing, where locals - including a few familiar faces - were working to bring the story of Jandamarra to the big screen. Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander viewers are warned that the following video may contain images and voices of deceased persons. | ABC Kimberley
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📽FLASHBACK FRIDAY📽 Flashing back more than thirty years this week, to 1988's bicentennial celebrations and Jana Wendt going live to Fitzroy Crossing, where locals - including a few familiar faces - were working to bring the story of Jandamarra to the big screen. Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander viewers are warned that the following video may contain images and voices of deceased persons. | ABC Kimberley
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🎥FLASHBACK FRIDAY🎥 Almost 60 years ago, ABC Journalist Michael Charlton travelled to Broome to hear stories about the towns pre-war era, including the troubles it faced during the early days of its cultured pearling industry. | ABC Kimberley
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🎥FLASHBACK FRIDAY🎥 Almost 60 years ago, ABC Journalist Michael Charlton travelled to Broome to hear stories about the towns pre-war era, including the troubles it faced during the early days of its cultured pearling industry. | ABC Kimberley
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11.48AM UPDATE: A major Kimberley highway has reopened after a truck sparked a bushfire yesterday. The Great Northern Highway between Halls Creek and the Victoria Highway intersection was closed when the tanker caught fire on Thursday morning. The truck was carrying thirty thousand litres of diesel at the time, and triggered a hazmat warning and a bushfire advice for the area. The road is now open with caution, and motorists have been advised to take care. Firefighters have left the scene, and a
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11.48AM UPDATE: A major Kimberley highway has reopened after a truck sparked a bushfire yesterday. The Great Northern Highway between Halls Creek and the Victoria Highway intersection was closed when the tanker caught fire on Thursday morning. The truck was carrying thirty thousand litres of diesel at the time, and triggered a hazmat warning and a bushfire advice for the area. The road is now open with caution, and motorists have been advised to take care. Firefighters have left the scene, and a
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Authorities have put residents and cattle stations on alert in the Sturt Creek catchment due to flooding. Department of Fire and Emergency Services personnel are on the ground in the Indigenous community of Bililuna where residents may have to evacuate to Halls Creek, if floodwaters reach homes. The deluge from ex-Tropical Cyclone Lincoln has also swamped pastoral stations in the area. DFES has warned residents looking to travel by road to be across the latest warnings. This vision was taken of
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Authorities have put residents and cattle stations on alert in the Sturt Creek catchment due to flooding. Department of Fire and Emergency Services personnel are on the ground in the Indigenous community of Bililuna where residents may have to evacuate to Halls Creek, if floodwaters reach homes. The deluge from ex-Tropical Cyclone Lincoln has also swamped pastoral stations in the area. DFES has warned residents looking to travel by road to be across the latest warnings. This vision was taken of
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On any given week in the Kimberley community of Mowanjum, most households experience electricity cuts at least two to three times. Community chair Leah Umbugai said almost every house relied on pre-paid electricity and families often ran out, enduring 24-hour outages. Read more - https://www.abc.net.au/news/2025-04-01/families-disconnected-electricity-remote-northern-wa/105092516 | ABC Kimberley
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On any given week in the Kimberley community of Mowanjum, most households experience electricity cuts at least two to three times. Community chair Leah Umbugai said almost every house relied on pre-paid electricity and families often ran out, enduring 24-hour outages. Read more - https://www.abc.net.au/news/2025-04-01/families-disconnected-electricity-remote-northern-wa/105092516 | ABC Kimberley
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'WE NEED THIS TO STOP' The Halls Creek family of a young girl who took her own life have opened up about their devastation. But their story is all too common in remote WA. Read the story here: https://ab.co/2uMXm7d ***If you need to talk to someone, you can call Lifeline on 13 11 14.*** | ABC Kimberley
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'WE NEED THIS TO STOP' The Halls Creek family of a young girl who took her own life have opened up about their devastation. But their story is all too common in remote WA. Read the story here: https://ab.co/2uMXm7d ***If you need to talk to someone, you can call Lifeline on 13 11 14.*** | ABC Kimberley
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Tropical cyclone Zelia has has made landfall, lashing WA's north with winds up to 290kph and dumping copious amounts of rain further inland. Though the system eased slightly before impacting land, authorities are urging residents to brace for further impact. | ABC Kimberley
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Tropical cyclone Zelia has has made landfall, lashing WA's north with winds up to 290kph and dumping copious amounts of rain further inland. Though the system eased slightly before impacting land, authorities are urging residents to brace for further impact. | ABC Kimberley
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JANDAMARRA'S LEGEND The iconic Kimberley landscape was home to one of Australia's toughest resistance fighters, Jandamarra. | ABC Kimberley
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We know it's been a bit of a bleak week on the news front, so here's something that we hope will cheer you up!🙂🐮 A few months ago, we brought you the story of a small Brahman calf called Peanut. We met the rescue calf at Coconut Wells, after he caught people's attention playing with his canine mates and going for walks and swims with his owner Edward Foy. That story brought Peanut and Edward a bit of viral fame, so we caught up with them recently to see how Peanut (now technically a steer!✂️)
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With Kununurra in the spotlight over the last week, the debate continues over how best to reduce youth crime in the Kimberley. Sign up to the ABC Kimberley newsletter: https://ab.co/KimberleyNewsletter | ABC Kimberley
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The Kimberley region is home to some spectacular storm activity and particularly impressive lightning shows - but two Derby residents came a little too close for comfort to a strike while travelling recently. Antonia and Maxine Buckle captured this footage on a dashcam of lightning metres from their vehicle on the road back to Derby. Weatherzone reported there was the potential for around 10 million lightning strikes across Australia this week alone. Maxine said the flash of lightning was a scar
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Coastal towns are filling up with people, as cruise ships arrive full of passengers for the peak tourist season. ABC Kimberely chatted with local doctors, to hear about the impact they're having on local health services. | ABC Kimberley
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Rain over recent days in the Central Kimberley has seen the Fitzroy River levels rise - this video was taken by Pepita Hunter on Monday morning. | ABC Kimberley
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"A QUANTUM LEAP FOR FLYING DOCTORS IN WA" Go behind the scenes with an RFDS team saving lives in the outback. ABC Kimberley filmed this video aboard one of the service's new PC-24 jets that are cutting flight times from the Kimberley to Perth in half. RFDS WA chief executive Rebecca Tomkinson says the two jets - one named "Kimberley" - which is based in Broome - and the other "Victory" - based in Jandakot - will be used in addition to the existing PC-12 fleet. “We are very proud of the innovatio
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Livestock losses in the once-in-a-century flooding event are expected to be in the tens of thousands. | ABC Kimberley
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SPECIAL GUESTS 🥰 The superstar kids at Purnululu Aboriginal Independent Community School popped in to see us this week - and serenaded us with a song for radio! 🎤📠 | ABC Kimberley
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The Fitzroy River rushes beneath the main bridge, captured here by Fitzroy crossing resident Natalie Davey on Sunday. Today the Bureau of Meteorology has the river at minor flood level, a little over 10 metres and rising 💦 | ABC Kimberley
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May they live on for generations ❤️ The Kimberley — Stream now on ABC iview: https://ab.co/TheKimberley | ABC iview
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Kimberley residents are now assessing the damage caused by Ex-Tropical Cyclone Luana. Heavy rain and strong winds has uprooted trees and destroyed a home at Mercedes Cove. 📺 Here's last night's 7PM news story on the clean up across the Dampier Peninsula and Derby. | ABC Kimberley
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Could you handle living out bush in the middle of the Kimberley through the Wet Season? The mob at Mornington Wildlife Sanctuary say they've got a serious case of cabin fever, after being cut off for three months due to flooding and impassable bush tracks. ABC Kimberley paid them a visit to see how they're faring. | ABC Kimberley
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🎥FLASHBACK FRIDAY🎥 In 1975 ABC reporter Peter Collins spent some time with 416 Squadron based in Broome, they provided the town with security and economic bonuses in a time when industry was slowing down. They even delivered the newspaper to the Cape Leveque lighthouse keeper on their way up the peninsula. | ABC Kimberley
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Backpackers are petitioning against a police campaign to ban bush doofs in WA's north and their campaign is gathering support from locals. ✍️ Ruby Littler via ABC Kimberley 📹 Andrew Seabourne | ABC Kimberley
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Our report on the latest situation in Fitzroy Crossing, Derby and Broome following the flooding emergency, from last night's 7pm state news bulletin. | ABC Kimberley
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It's the Kimberley like you've never seen it before 😍 The Kimberley - Stream from Tuesday 13 May 8pm on ABC iview and ABC TV. | ABC iview
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When Cyclone Rosita struck Broome 25 years ago, on April 20 2000, the power was out for days. Chaotic scenes ensued at the local supermarket as people scrambled to get food. 📷 ABC News archives Watch some of the other ABC TV archives posted this week about Cyclone Rosita on our ABC Kimberley page. | ABC Kimberley
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😳😳😳 PLAGUE PROPORTIONS😳😳😳 Feels like the mozzies are at similar levels at the moment here in the Kimberley, but spare a thought for Andrew Harper from the Outback Camel Company - he shot this video during a recent desert trip! | ABC Kimberley
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🎥FLASHBACK FRIDAY🎥 In November 1979, ABC reporter Brendan Wood headed out to Camballin to catch up with the larger than life Texan Jack Fletcher, a Kimberley agricultural pioneer. Mr Fletcher was the co-founder and managing director of the Australian Land and Cattle Company, which ran 100,000 head of cattle across seven Kimberley cattle stations during the 1970s and 80s. | ABC Kimberley
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Not all heroes wear capes! A group of mates rescued a galah trapped in a power pole in WA's north. One of the men involved, Henry Mickle, tells ABC News Breakfast's Nate Byrne how it all unfolded. | ABC Kimberley
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👙COOLING OFF IN BALGO👙 A remote Kimberley community says it's experiencing its highest school attendance rates this year since the opening of its new pool. The Balgo community, on the edge of the Great Sandy Desert, recently opened its seven million-dollar pool. It’s designed to improve the health of local children, who must attend class to be allowed in. | ABC Kimberley
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UNEXPECTED REUNION 😊😊 See what happens when a teacher working in the remote Kimberley spots a familiar face... | ABC Kimberley
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