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Unique art project gets big canvas on wind turbines

A renewable energy project being built at one of Western Australia's biggest gold mines has been transformed into a unique canvas for an Indigenous artist and about 200 schoolchildren.
A woman standing in front of art work she created.

Published: Source: ABC GoldfieldsTopic: Installation Artby Jarrod Lucas

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How WA's city of gold became an irresistible lure for this French prospector

Bruno Vincent has spent his life searching for gold, so there was only one Australian city on his travel bucket list.
A man in a white linen shirt and a hat looks at the camera.

Published: Source: ABC GoldfieldsTopic: Goldby Macey Turner

Marlinyu Ghoorlie celebrates recognition as traditional owners

The result comes eight years after the native title claimant group first registered for native title, with a counterclaim by another group dismissed.
An Aboriginal elder wearing a cowboy hat.

Published: Source: ABC GoldfieldsTopic: Native Titleby Macey Turner, Katrina Tap and Jarrod Lucas

Perth to swelter on Christmas Day with scorcher tipped

With only seven more sleeps until the big day, Western Australia looks like being the hottest capital city in the nation this Christmas.
Members of the public at a crowded beach during sunset.

Published: Source: ABC NewsTopic: Weather Forecastsby Tabarak Al Jrood

Students find meteorite after lengthy search in outback WA

PhD students from Curtin University have found a 300-gram meteorite after a five-day search in remote bushland.
Two smiling men and a woman kneel behind a small piece of dark rock in the outback.

Published: Source: ABC NewsTopic: Meteorsby Amber Cunningham and Katrina Tap

Record gold prices drive Australian exploration boom

The money being spent on drilling for gold has increased 45 per cent in the past 12 months.  
A man wearing a hard hat standing with arms crossed in front of a drill rig in bushland.

Published: Source: ABC GoldfieldsTopic: Goldby Jarrod Lucas and Tara de Landgrafft

WA opposition blames police shortage for slow emergency response

The WA Liberals say a slow police response to a violent incident involving St John Ambulance officers in the Goldfields is due to understaffing but the claim has been rejected by the police minister.
A smashed windscreen of an ambulance. Blood on glass and ambulance bonnet.

Published: Source: ABC GoldfieldsTopic: Policeby Jarrod Lucas and Macey Turner

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School children have inspired art works which will be installed on wind turbines in WA's Goldfields.

About 200 school children have inspired art works which will be installed on wind turbines in WA's Goldfields.
A wind turbine
Duration: 1 minute 44 seconds

Source: ABC Goldfields

A modern day goldrush

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Gold boom
Duration: 2 minutes 21 seconds

Source: ABC Goldfields

History of market gardens in Kalgoorlie

Excerpt from an ABC story aired in 1971, when Kalgoorlie-Boulder was home to about 600 dairy cows, abattoirs producing fresh meat, market gardens and poultry farms.
Market gardener holding up a bunch of carrots in 1971
Duration: 2 minutes 30 seconds

Source: ABC Goldfields

Several residents across the Goldfields town heard a large 'bang'

CCTV footage of the bang heard just after the likely meteor flash.
A still frame of a black and white CCTV in a garage.
Duration: 5 seconds

Source: ABC News

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