MARY GRAY is an environmental scientist who was awarded the OAM in this year’s Queen’s birthday honours for her service to conservation and the environment. In this piece she reminds us […]

COLIN MENDELSOHN was the founding chair of the charity Australian Tobacco Harm Reduction Association. In this week’s Speaker’s Corner he argues that a blanket ban on nicotine in vapes is […]

GREG LYNCH is a cinema historian and author, whose involvement in the industry goes back to 1954 when he repaired film for 20th Century Fox in Perth and soon became […]

    HANA JESTRIBEK is the co-founder of Little Hawk Cafe. Despite taking a chance with a hipster cafe in a semi-industrial area of Beaconsfield, it proved a roaring success – […]

SARAH HULT and LILY McAULIFFE are founding members of the Fremantle-based Abortion Project, a pro-choice movement which seeks to destigmatise discussions about abortion and provide peer support for the many […]

IN this week’s Speakers Corner, Free the Hounds president MEL HARRISON says dogs continue to race on tracks hardened by sweltering weather. THE recent WA heatwave has been tough on […]

THIS week we hear from East Perth resident Tamara who has spoken up about the events and decisions that led to her spending Christmas without her children. She has since […]

ONLINE voting was a notable omission from the state government’s new reforms for councils, and it was a smart call: Online elections can’t work if we want our voting to […]

ANDREA ROWE is an osteopath of 17 years’ clinical practice with eight years of tertiary level study and two health science degrees. She owns and runs a private community clinic […]

OUR series of tales from the Vincent Local History Centre returns this week with Julie Anglesey’s ‘Recollections from My School Years at St Mary’s 1971-1978’, one of the entries from […]