Trees Blow Down After Tropical Cyclone Narelle Passes By Karratha
Tropical Cyclone Narelle passed Karratha on March 26, 2026 causing wind gusts to 125 km/hr and some 100 mm of rain.
For a town that regularly sees gusts in the...
Pilbara Kimberely University Centre 2026 Graduation Ceremony
Speech by Chair Peter Long – 01 May 2026
Two major steps towards tertiary education in Karratha happened twelve years ago in 2014:
The University of Western Australia received a...
State Government Stops $250M Karratha CBD Development
The Western Australian State Government has lost our community a quarter of a billion-dollar investment in Karratha by refusing a proponent access to vacant land in the central business district....
Lack of WA Government Support means end of Karratha Ground Station for SST Satellite Test Program
In some sad news for Karratha, Solar Space Technologies (SST), a high-tech innovative start-up I have been working with for the last year, has had to cancel Karratha as only...
Regional Capped Airfares
A capped cost for air flights between regional centres in Western Australia and Perth was instigated by the State Labor Government on the 1st of July 2022.
When announced, the...
Global Emissions Continue To Rise
In spite of the huge investment in wind and solar power production across the world, in 2024, global emissions rose by more than 1 per cent. In 2023, they rose...
North West Defence Alliance
The North West Defence Alliance (NWDA) has been extremely effective lobbying the Federal and State governments over the last 5 years to recognise the economic and security importance of the...
First modules arrive for Scarborough
The first three Pluto Train 2 modules for Woodside Energy’s Scarborough Energy Project have arrived in Karratha.
Fabricated by Bechtel in Indonesia, the modules weigh a combined total of 4000...
Pilbara Hydrogen Hub
On Monday Feb 19, Chris Bowen, Federal Minister for Climate Change and Energy visited Murujuga in Karratha to confirm a $140 M investment in the Pilbara Hydrogen Hub. This money...
Karratha Conferences
Karratha has become the premier location for conferences in the Pilbara and outback Australia.
Just recently, the National Economic Development Conference 2023 was held in our town – quite a...
National Economic Development Conference – Mayor Peter Long’s Opening Speech
Welcome to this ancient land, trod by Aboriginal peoples for tens of thousands of years – the land of the Ngarluma people on which we are here gathered – and...
Housing – 15/06/2022
It was disheartening when a local barber rang me recently to say he really doesn’t want to, but he had to leave town because he couldn’t afford a doubling of...
Hydrogen – 04/05/2022
Hydrogen is wonderful stuff!
With the highest energy per unit mass of any fuel – nearly three times that of petrol – it can be made out of water, and...
Peter ABC Studio Opening Speech – 03/05/2022
Thank you, Kerry for your always interesting Welcome to Country! I would like to acknowledge the Ngarluma people and their Elders on whose land we are gathered today.
Ladies and...
DAMA – 27/04/2022
We all know how hard it is to get workers in the Pilbara – and unlike most of Australia, this has been a problem for a long time in the...
