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Six Aussie and one Kiwi passenger, quarantined in Perth after a cruise ship hantavirus scare, face weeks more isolation in an empty $500-bed facility. Meanwhile, Australia’s first female astronaut, Katherine Bennell-Pegg, inspired Goldfields students as she eyes a 2026 space mission — with ESA backing, but a $100M funding gap remains. A mysterious magpie illness persists, threatening bird populations. On a hopeful note, WA’s northern traditional owners won Australia’s largest native title payout — $150M for cultural loss and $150K for economic harm — after mining without consent. And in a powerful step toward reconciliation, human remains found on Rottnest Island were returned for cultural burial, honoring ancestral truth-telling.

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