No winners here.
Terrible stuff. It sounds like it may well be the same mob who made the wrong entry to Kununurra (joined Left Base on RWY 30 from the South, RWY 30 is R hand <due rotary traffic> and joining Base at a busy CTAF<R> is generally a bad idea) a few days ago and got into an argument with a local pilot about it. I'm certainly not trying to pass judgement or sling mud but I wonder whether this was really a CHTR flight or if the press got it wrong. And how do they get that it's from WA? Perhaps the aeroplane is registered here. Dunno, will wait to hear from the ATSB. At any rate it's always especially sad when this sort of thing happens so far from home.