{"id":802896,"date":"2026-07-16T00:42:15","date_gmt":"2026-07-16T00:42:15","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/802896\/"},"modified":"2026-07-16T00:42:15","modified_gmt":"2026-07-16T00:42:15","slug":"wa-news-live-nicky-winmar-removed-from-wa-football-hall-of-fame","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/802896\/","title":{"rendered":"WA news LIVE: Nicky Winmar removed from WA Football Hall of Fame"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Good morning readers, and welcome to our live news blog for Thursday, July 16.<\/p>\n<p>Making headlines today is the first strike in WA\u2019s Pilbara in decades, with BHP workers at the miner\u2019s Port Hedland operations set to down tools for eight hours as they negotiate for better pay conditions. <\/p>\n<p>Related Article<a href=\"https:\/\/www.smh.com.au\/national\/western-australia\/why-workers-earning-200-000-a-year-are-getting-ready-to-walk-off-the-job-20260616-p607ai.html\" tabindex=\"-1\" class=\"sc-cba76dee-0 hdiTqm\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\"><img decoding=\"async\" alt=\"Clenched fist salutes from first Robe river unionists to return to work after the long running dispute in the Pilbara, Western Australia. September 03, 1986. \" loading=\"lazy\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/07\/04e55dad1c09b325ef4415531c0279e3efea386b.jpeg\"  class=\"sc-d34e428-1 ioInpc\"\/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>And one expert warns other Pilbara workers will be \u201ctaking note\u201d of the strike, which is expected to cost BHP up to $50 million.<\/p>\n<p>Dr Alexis Vassiley, a work and employment relations lecturer at Edith Cowan University, said strikes were frequent in the Pilbara in the 70s and 80s, \u201cyet since 1999, all of the iron ore companies have removed significant union influence, so it\u2019s in a way a non-union region\u201d.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Good morning readers, and welcome to our live news blog for Thursday, July 16. Making headlines today is&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":424727,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[560],"tags":[638,64,63,55,639,85],"class_list":["post-802896","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-afl","tag-afl","tag-au","tag-australia","tag-australian-football-league","tag-australianfootballleague","tag-sports"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/802896","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=802896"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/802896\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/424727"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=802896"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=802896"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=802896"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}