NGAARDA STATEWIDE NEWS: WEDNESDAY JULY 29th, 2026
Prime Minister Anthony Albanese says a new $4 million study, funded with the WA Government, will investigate building a new oil refinery in WA.
The federal and WA government will spend up to $4 million investigating where to put a potential new oil refinery in the state, but despite announcing it in the Pilbara, the mining-rich region may not be home to it.
Aboriginal men in Port Hedland could soon have better access to culturally safe health and wellbeing services, with a new men’s health service and drop-in centre planned at the Wirraka Maya Health Service Aboriginal Corporation.
A new cultural heritage agreement has been signed to strengthen the protection of Noongar heritage at the Greenbushes lithium mine in Western Australia’s South West.
A Midwest domestic violence service says most local GPs don't provide early medical pregnancy terminations in Geraldton, after a recent study found less than one in three GPs across the country provide the service.
The Australian Bureau of Statistics has conceded the upcoming census is unlikely to shed new numbers on the number of fly-in fly-out workers traveling between some of Australia's biggest mining regions.