Perth
WA renters are forking out more than $37,000 a year. Here’s what needs to change
A new report, from the WA Make Renting Fair Alliance, has found renters across the state are now paying on average $20,000 more per year than they were in 2021.
- Holly Thompson
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- Review
- Victoria Park
This Vic Park pop-up is a heady blend of east and west, tradition and modern-day thinking
The new Nusantara food movement is gaining momentum across southeast Asia. With the arrival of Magnolia, Perth is also in on the action.
- Max Veenhuyzen
- Exclusive
- Crime
The words of a killer: Harrowing details of Warnbro mother’s death aired in court
The house in Warnbro was a place of neglect, stained by meth use. It was in this spiralling chaos that Luke Sekkouah stabbed Erica Hay to death and set her body on fire.
- Rebecca Peppiatt
Less local, higher prices: How will WA’s fishing ban flow through to the public?
Seafood and hospitality industry workers fear Wednesday’s decisions were made with an everyone-in-the-same-fishing-boat mentality.
- Max Veenhuyzen
West Australians mourned the Robinson brothers together. Now their case is going to trial
Court proceedings are now in their second year, and the trial of the men accused of murdering the brothers and their American friend will likely go into 2026.
- Hannah Murphy
- Opinion
- Domestic violence
When ‘harmless jokes’ aren’t harmless: What it will take to change the story on domestic violence
It doesn’t matter that “it’s not all men”. It’s enough men. Enough to stop women doing things they love. Enough to change how women act and where they go.
- Holly Edwards-Smith
WA e-rideables inquiry urges major overhaul of laws after surge in deaths and injuries
WA’s first major inquiry interrogating e-scooter and e-bike rules has made a raft of recommendations in a bid to make the vehicles safer on our roads.
- Carla Hildebrandt
‘Greedy’: Murdoch Uni manager jailed for ‘strategic, persistent, corrupt behaviour’
A Murdoch University manager who funnelled more than $1 million worth of work to a company set up by his wife and his close friend will be in jail until 2027.
- Rebecca Peppiatt
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- Infrastructure
WA MPs’ Christmas break delayed as Cook rushes to pass controversial bill
With surrogacy laws passed on Wednesday, the upper house has clear runway to debate the bill into next week, and Premier Roger Cook hopes it will pass before Christmas.
- Hamish Hastie
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