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Images from Harry Cunningham’s series on Perth’s urban sprawl. Pictures: Harry Cunningham

The photographer turning the focus on Perth’s ‘endless sprawl’

Stark imagery of barren streets, mass-produced houses, and endless roads is the focus of a Perth photographer’s exhibition which captures the ugliness of the great Australian dream on the urban fringe. 

  • Sarah Brookes

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An eye-catching arachnid known for its intricate courtship dance was discovered near Yanchep. Now, a housing estate is landing on its sandy doorstep.

Last dance for striking spider as Perth estate moves into its home

It’s a stunning example of the failure of WA’s planning system, say advocates: the loss of a rare and beautiful species for the “ugly monoculture” of sprawl.

  • Sarah Brookes
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
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
Wattle Grove is facing rezoning from rural to urban.

Rural rebellion at plan to populate Perth’s urban fringe

Paving Perth’s paddocks is one way the state’s planning to accommodate the projected 2050 population. But will the city’s most biodiverse wetland suffer?

  • Emma Young
“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
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‘Jinxed’ South Beach change room’s slab to get pulled up in fresh hurdle

The City of Fremantle has notified beachgoers that the under-construction South Beach change room’s concrete slab would need to be removed and replaced.

  • Claire Ottaviano
A street in Landsdale where trees remain sparse.

Perth homeowners could be paid to plant trees in bid to thicken canopy coverage

A plan to plant one million trees in Perth in the next 10 years has been announced in an attempt to cool the city down. Here’s how Labor plans to achieve it.

  • Holly Thompson
Artists’ impressions of the new plans for Carillon City in Perth’s CBD. Picture: Supplied/Fiveight

The $400m plan to redevelop Perth’s rundown Carillon City

Will a new proposal to revitalise the Carillon arcade in the CBD turn this ugly duckling into a swan?

  • Sarah Brookes
Keystart loan thresholds have changed.

State help for home loans expanded, but it’s not hitting the right note: expert

State government lender Keystart announced on Thursday it was increasing the property price limit eligibility on loans from $650,000 to $730,000 to reflect Perth’s current median house price of $735,000.

  • Hamish Hastie

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