IT’S been five weeks since I broke three bones in my right hand, and this is the first story I’ve written two-handed after some great free treatment from our public […]

In this week’s SPEAKER’S CORNER, local pedestrianist Andrew Main discusses road safety issues that discourage people from walking in Perth’s inner suburbs. WALKING is an extremely popular activity in the […]

SALLY McMANUS is secretary of the Australian Council of Trade Unions. In this week’s SPEAKER’S CORNER, she calls on people to attend a May Day rally for Change the Rules, […]

BAYSWATER councillor BRENT FLEETON is furious that the WA government is considering taking planning decisions away from local government. In this week’s SPEAKER’S CORNER he argues there is no substitute […]

DR TOM VOSMER is a maritime archaeologist who lived and worked in the Middle East for decades. Grappling with a refugee crisis of boat people after the end of Vietnam […]

JEREMY PEREY is a Perth local. In this week’s SPEAKER’S CORNER, he raises concerns about bauxite strip mining in the Jarrah forest encroaching on areas of high aesthetic and recreational […]

ON February 16 the Perth district court sentenced a woman to six years in jail for transmitting HIV to a man—a sentence longer than that doled out to some one-punch […]