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Gabyon Pastoral CompanyGabyon Pastoral Company’s 90th year of moving forward

The Dongara-based Henderson Shearing team were filling the bales at the O’Brien and Gillam family’s historical Irwin House shearing shed as the wool market lifted 70¢ to close at 1895¢/kg.

Bob Garnant

Gabyon Pastoral Company's eight-monthly shearing takes place at the historical Irwin House shearing shed.

Wild dogs continue to prey on sheep. Western Australian Agriculture Authority

WILD DOG CONTROL HITWild dog control funding is halved for rangeland group

Rebecca Nadge

With the equal $13,000 top-priced bull, Fieldhouse BC7 36 is buyer Josh Pumpa of Yalgoo, with Fieldhouse Droughtmaster stud co-principal Ken Mutton, and Nutrien Livestock agents Craig Walker and Richard Keach.

Fieldhouse Droughtmaster saleFieldhouse Droughtmaster bulls top at $13,000

A pair of Jurien Bay Droughtmaster bulls sold for the equal $13,000 top price at the Mutton family’s Fieldhouse Droughtmaster Stud Bull Sale, where pastoralists secured top picks to work in the State’s north.

Bob Garnant

Daniel Patten, Sue Paterson and Andries Visagie were all assisting in the yards at the 2026 Williams Campdraft.

CATTLE DONORSMeet the Williams Campdraft’s volunteers and cattle donors

As riders competed against the clock to guide cattle around the pegs in the annual Williams Campdraft, there were plenty of volunteers working behind the scenes to keep the event running smoothly

Rebecca Nadge

Olivia and Ben Wright, Munda Reds, Nutrien's Daniel Wood and son Ben, 12, with buyer representative Max Wallis, Munda, and the top-priced bull.

DROUGHTMASTER DEMANDDemand strong at Munda Reds’ annual sale

Munda Reds Droughtmaster stud has defied the tough season at its annual on-property bull sale, recording a full clearance with strong repeat support.

Rebecca Nadge

Allegria Park Angus stud co-principal Andrew Kuss will retire his position as Angus Australia WA director.

Angus Australia electionTwo WA Angus stalwarts vie for Angus director role

Angus Australia’s director election process is now under way with two WA nominees seeking positions for various positions on the two ballots.

Bob Garnant

Harvest Road CEO Harvey Gaynor, Tattarang CEO John Hartman, Harvest Road COO Daniel Briggs, and Haarslev Australia New Zealand general manager Paul Martin. Harvest Road officially opened their new beef rendering facility in Harvey on Tuesday, April 21.

Beef ChainSouth West rendering facility from Harvest Road opened

A new Harvest Road state-of-the-art rendering facility in Harvey has been officially opened after more than 18 months of construction.

Georgia Campion

WILD DOG CONTROL HITWild dog control funding is halved for rangeland group

The Meekatharra Rangelands Biosecurity Association has been left reeling after a long-term program to manage the impacts of wild dogs had its funding slashed by 50 per cent.

Rebecca Nadge

Gemma Healy-Maver has been teaching for 25 years in Yuna, a tiny farming community north-east of Geraldton

RURAL TEACHER SHORTAGELack of incentives for “isolating” rural teaching positions

Just 2 per cent of Australia’s teachers work in remote schools and after 25 years teaching in a tiny farming community north-east of Geraldton, Gemma Healy-Maver said current incentives are not enough

Darren Spencer, owner of the Spencer Shearing Services team from Lake Grace holds freshly shorn fleece in the shearing shed at Glensarsfield sheep farm at Kukerin.
Nic Ellis

WA WOOL DROPSWool production lower than estimated

Western Australia’s wool production has dropped yet again, as an updated forecast of shorn wool for the 2025-26 season shows it to be 8.8 per cent lower than the 2024-25 estimate.

Fieldhouse Droughtmaster saleFieldhouse Droughtmaster bulls top at $13,000

Wheatbelt NRM chief executive Renata Paliskis at the Muchea Livestock Centre in 2011.

Sheep LeadersTwo from WA join sheep sustainability framework

Two WA agriculture figures have been appointed leaders of the national sheep sustainability framework steering group to navigate the evolving sheep and wool sectors.

Georgia Campion

Conservation efforts funded in the wake of Anthony Albanese’s 2022 election are at risk of being scrapped.

POLITICS‘Someone will die’: Huge funding cut warning

With frontline funding protecting Australia’s farms and nature due to expire, the government has been warned the Iran war is “no excuse”.

Nathan Schmidt

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Tom Gross is demanding selection with strong WAFL form.

WAFLAFL WATCH: The young Eagle demanding an AFL call-up in WAFL

West Coast fielded 15 AFL-listed players in their stirring comeback win over Swan Districts on Sunday. Here’s how they all fared, including a young midfielder who was particularly impressive.

Josh Kempton

It is understood the Scotch College student Jack Avenell was on a True North cruise when he drowned.

WA NewsTributes flow after son of True North Cruises owner drowns

A 15-year-old private school student who tragically drowned in the remote Kimberley has been remembered as ‘the most enthusiastic and keen young fella ever’.

Santos CEO Kevin Gallagher at the company’s AGM in Adelaide last week.

Oil & GasSantos restructure forces Perth staff to relocate

Leaked email reveals staff from WA will be forced to move interstate as the oil and gas company restructures to cut costs.

Paul-Alain Hunt and Keira Wright

D & C Corporation worked on two of VIctor Goh’s builds — Capital Square on Mount Street and EQWest on the banks of the Swan River.

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From Goh to woe: Secret docs reveal EQWest delay dispute

The company building Victor Goh’s Elizabeth Quay skyscrapers was blasted for withholding millions of dollars from a contractor in a previously secret legal ruling.

Matt Mckenzie

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Play was halted and called back in a controversial moment on Sunday.

AFLAFL BACKFLIP: League changes review rule amid Eagles blunder

AFL football boss Greg Swann says the league will alter its policy around the score review process after it cost West Coast a goal in controversial circumstances on Sunday.

Josh Kempton

House That!Ex-Woodside supremo puts City Beach mansion on market

Former Woodside boss Meg O’Neill is offloading her City Beach mansion only months after leaving Perth for London to take up a new gig as CEO of BP.

Brooke Rolfe

Dayne Brajkovich outside Perth Magistrates Court today.

Courts & JusticeBikie Brajkovich fights charge over Raiders singlet ban

Outlaw Dayne Brajkovich has pleaded not guilty to displaying bikie insignia over a black-and-white Las Vegas Raiders singlet.

Louise Pope loves living in White Gum Valley with her family.

PropertyREVEALED: Perth’s most sought after suburbs for buyers

A surprise suburb in Perth’s south is the most sought-after areas for house hunters in the entire State, new data has revealed.

“Boardroom screaming match ends with cops storming out” with Ben Harvey.

WATCHBoardroom screaming match ends with cops storming out

In tonight’s show, Ben Harvey reveals why being the boss of WA’s Police Union isn’t a long-term career prospect with the third president in five years facing the chop.

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WILD DOG CONTROL HITWild dog control funding is halved for rangeland group

Rebecca Nadge

RURAL TEACHER SHORTAGELack of incentives for “isolating” rural teaching positions

Danielle Marsland

Sheep LeadersTwo from WA join sheep sustainability framework

Georgia Campion

POLITICS‘Someone will die’: Huge funding cut warning

Nathan Schmidt

CNBC newsPeople will be ‘living and working’ on the moon in the 2030s

People will be living and working on the moon within the next decade, according to the boss of space tech company Voyager Technologies.

Lucy Handley

Fatih Birol, executive director of the International Energy Agency.

CNBC news‘Biggest energy security threat in history’: Bleak outlook

The world has lost 13 million barrels of oil per day thanks to the war, and there are major disruptions in vital commodities, International Energy Agency head Fatih Birol said.

Holly Ellyatt

CNBC newsWatchdog zeros in on suspicious oil trades before Trump post

The probe is zeroing in on at least two instances over a roughly two-week period when trading volumes jumped sharply just ahead of key White House news.

Yun Li

A navy vessel is seen sailing in the Strait of Hormuz, a vital waterway through which much of the world’s oil and gas passes on March 1, 2026.

EnergyWhat an Iran blockade will look like and how it will be done

The move comes as Iran has blockaded the Strait of Hormuz for weeks during the US-Israeli war with the country, a bottleneck that roiled global markets and strained the economy.

Garrett Downs