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Input from with the Wadjemup Aboriginal Group will soon see Noongar language replace a number of existing road names on the island.

For Aboriginal people and the Traditional Owners it’s important that we don’t forget the past, but recognise the past and what occurred there,” Ms Thorley said. A spokesperson for the Rottnest Island Authority said a proposal for dual naming of sites on the island was "well progressed" and had strong support from stakeholders. The first regular Aboriginal cultural tours on the island only began in 2019 and following a refurbishment the island’s museum, it recently reopened with its new name Wadjemup Museum, recognising the Noongar name of the island. Through the project it is anticipated methods to commemorate the Aboriginal men and boys who are buried on the Island will be considered as well as what will happen with the old prison building known as the Quod. A nine metre high welcome statement at the main arrival and departure point on Wadjemup, which recognises the brutal history and incarceration of Aboriginal men and boys that occurred on the Island between 1838 and 1931 was installed in late 2021. She said it was one of several roads being re-named, and further consideration of the names of sites on the island was underway.

Four men are sentenced to jail terms of between 22 and 33 years over the importation of a tonne of drugs – worth up to $184 million – that were discovered ...

The recording was played in court, and the two men on board could be heard talking about the large quantity of the drugs which they referred to as cocaine and ice. The drugs were initially loaded onto a yacht called the Zero, off the coast of South Africa and then brought to WA where the vessel ran aground in the Abrolhos Islands, off the coast of Geraldton, in September 2019. Four men have been sentenced to jail terms of between 22 and 33 years over the importation of a tonne of drugs – worth up to $184 million – that were discovered on a tiny island off the coast of Western Australia.

A crime syndicate's plan to bring almost a tonne of drugs to Australia ground to a halt when their boat, and the one sent to rescue it, ran aground and ...

He and the other two crew members were arrested and denied anything to do with the drugs. Authorities boarded the empty yacht and commenced a rescue operation to find its occupants, while local fishermen’s offers to help free the DW 140 in exchange for a carton of beer were declined. As the duo were taken into custody, police spotted another boat cruising slowly just north of the island. Desperate messages between the pair to the second boat revealed their pleas for rescue. If not for a series of at times comical errors, the MDMA, cocaine and methamphetamine smuggled on their yacht would likely have entered the country undetected. Multiple shipwrecks lie on the sea floor off the coast of the islands dating as far back as the 1600s when Dutch explorers sailed the West Australian coast.

The Greek island of Tilos has pioneered a new waste management model, recycling plant and prides itself for being a “zero-waste” island.

Tilos is a small island roughly 15 hours away from the Greek mainland by ferry. – Athanasios Polychronopoulos, founder of PolyGreen “Our model can guarantee and succeed these recycling rates as long as the civilians want it and the government provides us a multi-year contract in order for us to ensure that despite of all the possible changes in the elections of the municipalities and prefectures, we will stay here and we will guarantee recycling rates.

Not only is the island affected, but Pumicestone Passage is clogged with sand and the mainland beach is also being carved by the tide.