Pressure on City over Rex hangar deal 3/12/2015

ALBANY’s Mayor said the City had fewer than three months to build a large aircraft hangar if Regional Express Airlines (Rex) was to start operating early morning flights in late February.

Click on this image to read the story.

Click on this image to read the story.

In late November, Albany Mayor Dennis
Wellington and Member for
Albany Peter Watson said the
airline, which was the State Government’s
preferred tenderer for
the Perth to Albany route, was yet
to speak to anyone from Albany.

“I would have thought it would
have been a really good idea to
come and talk to us before we get
too excited about anything,” Mr
Wellington said.

There are various ways of reporting a local government story.

Some like to concentrate on personalities.

I prefer to show how a given issue will affect everyday people’s lives.

The Mayor’s disappointment at the City not being consulted is worth noting, but not the story’s main angle from my point of view.

The Great Southern Weekender, December 3, 2015.

 

 

Drier areas a refuge from cane toad 26/9/2015

The pindan scrub, which is a type of arid heathland, is not a place toxic cane toads care to tarry.

Click on this image to read the story as printed in Kimberley Echo, Kununurra WA, 26 Nov 2015.

Click on this image to read the story as printed in Kimberley Echo, Kununurra WA, 26 Nov 2015.

As a result, the large reptiles that tend to eat them have had a better survival rate in this drier environment.

This is an interesting, opportunistic study by government scientists working out of Kununurra in the East Kimberley.

It has now been republished in The Kimberley Echo. 

Science Network [read this story]

 

 

26 Nov 2015
Kimberley Echo, Kununurra WA