When hundreds of Aboriginal people gather next month on Rottnest,they will be shedding light on that dark history and seeking to lay it to rest.
There is something extraordinarily beautiful about the dramatic landscape,rocky cliffs and translucent waters of Rotto in winter.
About 50 tandem skydivers in Western Australia have taken part in the inaugural World Skydiving Day world record attempt.
A gigantic shipwreck twice the size of a blue whale has been found just off the coast of Western Australia.
Three female records have been broken in the annual Euroz Hartleys Port to Pub Rottnest swim,which saw more than 1500 people cross the 19.7-kilometre stretch from Leighton Beach on Saturday.
The calls follow Saturday’s event being abandoned for the first time in the iconic swim’s 34-year history due to dangerous weather conditions.
Swimmers were pulled from the water about 10am after organisers received advice it was unsafe for participants to continue.
Minekus,a well-known employee at the island’s general store,was given a suspended sentence after pleading guilty to two assaults against a child in the 1980s.
WA’s premier island getaway could take a leaf out of Lord Howe’s book whose commitment to maintaining a pristine,world heritage listed paradise includes limiting the number of visitors to 400 at any one time.
This week on The Reporter podcast,Gary Adshead tells Michael Thomson how an ordinary walk with the dog led to a tip-off about the identity of a dismembered body.
A gifted child and a charming man,Stephen Cookson could have had it all. Instead,he sank deep into the underworld,where one day he got everything he deserved.