Historic Kalgoorlie pipeline set for over half billion upgrade

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The Kalgoorlie pipeline is one of the nation's great infrastructure projects. It's up there with the Snowy Mountain scheme and the Overland telegraph line as a visionary nation building project. The WA State Government has announced it will spend more than half a billion dollars upgrading the capacity of the historic Goldfields Water Supply Scheme. Water Minister Don Punch says 543 million dollars will be allocated in the forthcoming State Budget to increase its daily capacity by more than 7 million litres by 2027. Reporter: Sinead Mangan with Jarrod Lucas (Kalgoorlie)
A third vigil has been held in Alice Springs to demand "justice" after Kumanjayi White's death in police custody last month. Many members of Mr White's home community of Yuendumu travelled hundreds of kilometres to be at the vigil, which saw the crowd walk to the Coles supermarket where the young Warlpiri man died. Mr White's family members repeated calls for the NT Police Force to hand over their investigation into his death to an independent body. Reporter: Sinead Mangan with ABC Indigenous Affairs reporter Carly Williams
The GoodSam app recruits everyday people to respond to a cardiac arrest before an ambulance arrives. New South Wales GoodSam volunteers have saved more than 50 lives since 2023. When Geoff Percival collapsed in cardiac arrest and his partner called triple-0, a paramedic was not the first responder; it was neighbour Ashlin Fisher. Reporter: Christien de Garis (Bega)
The tariff war between the US President Donald Trump and China has had an upside for Australian farmers with Beijing restaurants and shops swapping out US beef for Aussie beef. Reporter: Sinead Mangan and Alex Hyman, talent Beef Central publisher and co-founder Jon Condon.