Opinion
Cost of living
Cook’s free Zoo tickets mean the die is well and truly cast for WA
After almost eight years in power, this government has got lazy, unimaginative, crass and ever-ready to use taxpayer dollars to grab happy headlines and votes.
- by Gary Adshead
Latest
Perth families denied burial plots seek ‘compassionate’ way forward
After closing a cemetery, a Perth metropolitan council has advised widows they can no longer be buried in the lots they bought beside their husbands.
- by Gary Adshead
Opinion
Child abuse
Why hasn’t this abandoned WA ‘molestation sanctuary’ been bulldozed to the ground?
Festering in an unremarkable corner of the Great Southern historic town are rows of drab red brick buildings just waiting for someone to do the right thing and bulldoze the lot of them.
- by Gary Adshead
Opinion
Corruption
State nothing but a broken record on our shonky tow-truck industry
This industry has been unregulated and lawless for years with a growing list of dubious operators able to charge anything, knowing they’ve got people over a barrel.
- by Gary Adshead
Opinion
Social media
Perth family’s trauma shows how social media has polluted our society
Financial crime, sexual exploitation, mental abuse, narcissism, intimidation and misinformation is flooding these platforms, and we need to make it stop now.
- by Gary Adshead
Opinion
Construction
Time for a reckoning over WA’s Nicheliving and construction crisis
This government overcooked the property market with millions of stimulus dollars in 2020, leading hundreds of ordinary West Australians into a nightmare.
- by Gary Adshead
Opinion
Crime
Giving domestic violence the hindsight treatment is one reason women are still getting murdered
If the account of Ariel Bombara is correct, it’s the real-time decisions that deserve a laser focus now, not looking back with hindsight.
- by Gary Adshead
Opinion
Planning
The big brown stain on the WA government’s housing efforts
Labor huffed and puffed about remedying the previous government’s inaction before demolishing the Brownlie Towers housing complex in 2019.
- by Gary Adshead
Opinion
Domestic violence
Why you won’t find this woman’s name on the list of Australian victims of domestic violence murders
Her partner pleaded guilty to doing “an act as a result of which the life, health or safety” of his victim “was likely to be endangered”.
- by Gary Adshead
Opinion
Radio
Anger, conspiracies, insults – and that’s just the pollies. Why I put Basil on the air (and keep bringing him back)
A weekly segment with Perth Lord Mayor Basil Zempilas would make for great radio, I thought. Who could have foreseen the ensuing outrage from our state’s political class?
- by Gary Adshead
Cockburn council shelves $114,000 ‘Croatia junket’ after public outcry
A proposal for City of Cockburn ratepayers to foot a $114,000 bill for the mayor and three councillors to spend a week in Croatia has been put on ice.
- by Heather McNeill and Gary Adshead
Original URL: https://www.watoday.com.au/by/gary-adshead-p4yvic