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Gill Gannon and Bea Tomlin, who help co-ordinate the Keep Champion Road Open group.

Council staff refuse to sign secrecy deals over hated level-crossing plan

The council will now only communicate with the Level Crossing Removal Project in writing.

  • Sophie Aubrey

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A 2023 video of a stormwater tunnel under Hawthorn before and after it was reinforced with concrete.

Beneath our feet: The hidden failures in Melbourne’s sewer tunnels

Collapsing sewer tunnels, botched repairs and a firm silenced for exposing failures — Melbourne Water faces scrutiny over hidden underground risks and wasted millions.

  • Clay Lucas
Parents are calling for the government to act so school children can have a safe passage to school.

Coastal residents promised free beach buses while Mandogalup students plead for public transport

Labor has pledged to introduce a free bus service for people living in Stirling to get to Scarborough Beach. Meanwhile, 40km south in the premier’s electorate, school children cross treacherous roads to get to class.

  • Sarah Brookes
Despite record investment in recent years cycling spending amounts to just 2 per cent of the transport budget in WA.

Now that’s long term: At this rate, Perth’s long-term cycle network to take 100 years

How good are the primary and secondary cycle routes in your Perth or Peel state electorate? Check it out here with our handy visualisation broken down by area.

  • Emma Young
Before and after footage reveals flaws in $3.5 million repairs to Hawthorn stormwater tunnel.
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Buried Failures: One stormwater tunnel's faulty fix

Before and after footage reveals flaws in $3.5 million repairs to Hawthorn stormwater tunnel.

A Suburban Rail Lop construction site in Clayton.

Minister releases $2.2b for Suburban Rail Loop but flags ‘hurdles’ for more cash

After months of wrangling over the project’s merits, the federal government has released money it pledged to the state government ahead of the last election.

  • Cassandra Morgan and Rachel Eddie
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Prime Minister Anthony Albanese with Premier Jacinta Allan.

Federal MPs furious over Allan’s Suburban Rail Loop ‘blackmail’

A tense stand-off over project funding has prompted Victorian federal MPs to demand Jacinta Allan cease holding out for extra rail loop money.

  • Paul Sakkal
Dramatic as it may seem, we are in the grips of a public toilet crisis and need to do something about it.

A public service announcement on the public toilet crisis

With cafes limiting toilet use to paying customers and public toilets seemingly impossible to find (or too horrific to face), we need answers on what to do when nature calls.

  • Thomas Mitchell
“Any future social and economic proposal for the site once the container operations shift to Kwinana must capture and reflect these values as well as the area’s cultural importance to local Traditional Owners. - Jane Bennett.

Fremantle’s future: What does our port city look like without its port?

For the first time, a vision for a port without its trademark ‘dinosaurs’ has been revealed in a 50–year plan to transform it to a world-leading waterfront city.

  • Claire Ottaviano
The Kwinana Freeway: how can you not love a city which gets a 100 points on the Global Liveability Index for its infrastructure?

Swathes of Kwinana Freeway to be widened under $700 million plan

Labor has started this week with a congestion election commitment blitz after yesterday promising a fix of the Erindale Road Reid Highway intersection.

  • Hamish Hastie

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