SUZY STANFORD is passionate about protecting the natural world and connecting people with the great outdoors. After living and working in the Kimberley, she was totally struck by the beauty and spirit of the place and now works as a community campaigner, chatting to people at markets and events around Perth about how they can…

SATURDAY April 17 saw the finals for Perth’s two biggest greyhound racing events, with dogs injured in four races and one forced to compete with an existing leg puncture wound. Coalition for the Protection of Greyhounds president Dennis Anderson says we need to stop betting on cruelty. PERTH’S two biggest greyhound races – the annual…

This week’s SPEAKER’S CORNER is by Legalise Cannabis Western Australia Party spokesperson Moshe Bernstein. “A historic victory for legal cannabis” argues that his party’s success in winning two seats during the March state election isn’t comparable to microparty vote rorts which have been blamed for undermining democracy.  IN the recent elections, the Legalise Cannabis Western…

PAUL COLLINS has been a WACA member since 1986 and is a former WACA board member. While there’s been a lot of focus on whether the WACA pool is a good deal for Perth city council, Mr Collins questions whether it’s a prudent move for the WACA to hand over a chunk of its land…

THIS week marks 30 years since the release of the findings of the 1991 Royal Commission Into Indigenous Deaths in Custody. The Deaths in Custody Watch Committee was due to mark the day with a rally in Forrest Place on Thursday April 15, calling on the full implementation of the recommendations, many of which have…

You might’ve seen some strange scenes on Angove Street last week, with figures in orange silently marching and then collapsing in North Perth Plaza. In this week’s Speaker’s Corner, FIONA MORAN, a spokesperson for Extinction Rebellion WA’s North of the River group, explains why they took action. WHAT do a school teacher, entomologist, community facilitator,…

Former State MP and co-founder of CARAD – now Centre for Asylum seekers Refugees And Detainees – JUDYTH WATSON tells the harrowing story of a refugee family of six women stranded in Indonesia. BECAUSE of persistent attacks on Hazaras, Muhammad, Zulaika and their five daughters, aged between one and nine, fled Afghanistan 17 years ago…

VALERIYA KOVALYSHEN is a Cockburn resident who recently made a long-held dream come true. With WA’s sudden lockdown reminding everyone that border re-openings can’t be taken for granted, she says there’s some great opportunities for the whole family, right here in our backyard – if you’re willing to take the plunge. WE did something different…

MOSHE BERNSTEIN is an adjunct research fellow at Curtin University and a member of the Legalise Cannabis Western Australia Party. In this week’s Speaker’s Corner he explains why the party was founded and why they want cannabis legalised.  ON December 22, Legalise Cannabis Western Australia became a political party.  Coalesced around the issue of legalisation,…

In this week’s Speaker’s Corner, Greens upper house MP Alison Xamon reminds us the homelessness problem’s not solved just because a few announcements have been made. AS families rushed around the shops in the Perth CBD in the days before Christmas, and spent evenings touring the city’s festive light displays, residents of Tent City near the…