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The City of Nedlands is under investigation by WA’s workplace safety watchdog. Left to right from top left: Mayor Fiona Argyle, Deputy Mayor Kerry Smyth, councillors Blane Brackenridge, Rebecca Coghlan, Ben Hodsdon, Noel Youngman, Fergus Bennett and Hengameh Amiry. Hodsdon, Youngman, Amiry and Bennett all resigned within hours of each other on Monday, triggering an intervention by the state government.

‘Dysfunctional’ western suburbs council replaced until next election

The resignations of five councillors collapsed the City of Nedlands council, with the remaining four positions to be formally vacated on Friday.

  • Holly Thompson

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City of Nedlands main image WAtoday. Picture: Supplied

City of Nedlands under investigation for ‘inappropriate workplace behaviour’ claims

More than 70 staff have quit in the last 18 months, prompting the workplace watchdog to scrutinise the besieged council for claims of inappropriate workplace behaviour.

  • Connor McGoverne
City of Nedlands Mayor Fiona Argyle. Picture: Facebook

‘Everyone loves dying children’: Sacked mayor’s bizarre radio rant

After four Nedlands councillors tendered their resignations on Monday, Mayor Fiona Argyle took to the airwaves on ABC Perth.

  • Hamish Hastie
Emma Pegrum (left) and Kate Hulett (right) record their A Piece of Kate podcast in Treeby, in the federal electorate of Fremantle.

Social climbers: How Perth independents are bypassing mainstream media to reach voters

Social media is playing a bigger role in political campaigns, but no WA candidates are doing it as effectively as Kate Hulett in Fremantle and Kate Chaney in Curtin.

  • Mark Naglazas
Perth has one of the world’s most affordable luxury property markets.

Move over Seoul and Dubai: Perth offers luxury homes at global bargain prices

A six by four in Peppermint Grove, anyone? Perth’s luxury house prices are the fastest rising in the nation, but still offer bang for buck on the global stage.

  • Sarah Brookes
The cheapest houses sold in Perth’s most expensive suburbs. Picture: WAtoday

The cheapest homes sold in Perth’s most expensive suburbs

A home for less than $1 million in Perth’s most expensive suburbs? It’s possible.

  • Sarah Brookes
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Liberal leader Libby Mettam and Helping Little Hands chief executive Joanne Beatty flanked by parents of vulnerable newborns.

Mettam accused of running women’s hospital scare campaign

Flanked by parents of vulnerable newborns Beatty, a vocal opponent of the hospital being built in Murdoch, backed Liberal leader Libby Mettam’s election promise to tear up construction agreements and build it next to Perth Children’s Hospital.

  • Hamish Hastie
Port Hedland’s housing market still has not rebounded from its peak in 2012.

The Perth suburbs and WA towns where homes are still cheaper than their peak

Home values are languishing below their peaks in a string of Perth suburbs and country towns despite the number of markets recording a million-dollar median value reaching a record high.

  • Sarah Brookes
Perth house prices western suburbs 2024

The morbid reason house prices will soar in the western suburbs

Prices are predicted to go through the roof in some of Perth’s most tightly held neighbourhoods.

  • Sarah Brookes
Not enough homes are being built to house WA’s increasing population.

The profitable Perth suburb where sellers pocketed a whopping $1 million

The Perth suburbs leading profit gains are dominated by Generation X and older Millennials, typically in their late 30s to late 40s.

  • Sarah Brookes

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