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The house at 148 Ballantyne Street in Thornbury, which sold at auction for $1 million.

They bought a knockdown-rebuild and got a fight over Thornbury’s tallest trees

The larger of two eucalypts locals are fighting to save is estimated to be more than 25 metres tall and believed to be one of the tallest trees in Thornbury.

  • Tom Cowie

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Black cockatoos are in dire straits across WA.

Carnaby’s carnage laid bare in ongoing fallout from WA’s horror summer

Those on the frontlines of the battle to save WA’s best-loved bird have revealed new details – and new ideas.

  • Emma Young
More than 1 million petroglyphs are scattered around Murujuga National Park, which overlooks Woodside’s Karratha operations.

Art activists in legal bid to kill massive Woodside gas project

The gas giant’s controversial project faces another hurdle as environmental activists launch an 11th-hour bid to overturn a state government approval.

  • Aaron Bunch and Emma Young
Aerial view of Canning Bridge, Applecross, where a number of high-rise towers have been built in recent years. Picture: Adobe Stock

Parks or parking? Fight brews in Perth’s high-end high-rise hotspot

Two years ago councillors resolved to create a public park for an increasingly dense urban apartment zone. Now they’re considering making a quarter of it car parking.

  • Emma Young
People gathered from all across Perth and the South West for the protest against Heidelberg Materials’ proposed Oldbury sand mine.

Black cockatoo battle erupts south of Perth as sand mine looms

A fight is brewing in a rural southern Perth suburb over a proposal to clear hectares of banksia woodland, potentially impacting a species already on the brink.

  • Emma Young
Tash Peterson has declared bankruptcy on Instagram.

Animal rights activist Tash Peterson declares bankruptcy in Instagram videos

Vegan activist Tash Peterson and her partner have declared bankruptcy on Instagram, following their unsuccessful legal battle with a Perth veterinarian.

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Just Stop Oil protesters threw tinned soup at Vincent Van Gogh’s famous 1888 work Sunflowers, then glued themselves to the wall at the National Gallery in London in 2022.

After throwing soup at Van Gogh and painting Stonehenge, agents of chaos say they’re done

The group of protesters, which included women in their 80s, grabbed the headlines with disruptive stunts that saw them arrested 3300 times in three years.

  • Rob Harris
The climate activists made headlines by activities that included throwing soup on famous artworks, interrupting live theatre and spraying paint on Stonehenge.
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Just Stop Oil calls time on disruptive protests

The climate activists made headlines by activities that included throwing soup on famous artworks, interrupting live theatre and spraying paint on Stonehenge.

The March 9 Edition

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Black cockatoos are in dire straits across WA.

People ‘just picking up’ starving WA cockatoos as burglars target nests

At what point does a pet become a pest? Meanwhile, here’s why one of Perth’s foremost black cockatoo rehab figures is saying he’s ‘never seen anything like it’.

  • Emma Young

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