Every parent knows how important your kid’s choice of friends can be.
Kate Emery
With an election nearing, there’s been a distinct increase in politicians doing silly things on social media in a bid to win the attention of voters.
Katina Curtis
Roger Cook and Libby Mettam, the two leaders in the race for the State’s top job, are both fighting shadows. But they’re engaged in vastly different battles.
Jessica Page
The State endured the nation’s biggest decline in bulk-billing — a 4 per cent decline on the year earlier, and a more than 20 per cent fall since 2023.
While the flame of bipartisanship still flickers, hope remains that lies, greed and moral relativism might not destroy our foundations.
Andrew Miller
Henry was just three months old when his parents rushed him to the emergency department at PMH, barely recognising their once-thriving baby.
Andrew Leech
A politician muddles policy details, a CEO fumbles the figures and an athlete sparks outrage with a poorly chosen remark.
Gary Martin
Recently, the US has levied a 10 per cent additional tariff on Chinese imports under the pretext of the fentanyl issue.
Xiao Qian
Northbridge’s Royale Theatre was once briefly home to Perth’s only IMAX cinema - the mammoth movie medium which envelopes viewers with visuals and sound.
Dylan Caporn
This column serves as a memo to the more than 50 leaders of Australian Muslims who signed an open letter of complaint about the treatment of the two NSW nurses who bragged about wanting to kill Jews.
Ben Harvey
The message to voters is clear: Do your homework. A vote is a privilege — in both houses. The State is well-served by voters considering both votes with equal weight.
What’s Roger Cook’s pass mark at this election? Cook is like a guy who becomes the new coach of a footy side, just after they have won a premiership.
Joe Spagnolo
I recently fronted my own Fringe World show where I did stand-up and introduced funny friends to perform as well. It was a hit. Everyone loved it. Then came the giant slice of perspective just a week later.
Nat Locke
‘Some women take to the organisation of a wedding like a duck to water, others see it as a military operation, some bury their heads in the sand . . . and others turn into control freaks’
Jay Hanna
WA ministers have followed Federal Labor’s lead on dealing with anti-Semitism following revelations a teacher used a classroom whiteboard to praise slain terrorist Ismail Haniyeh as ‘a great leader’.
Independents are likely to hold sway at the Federal election and Labor has no shame in who it courts as it tries desperately to cling on to power.
Paul Murray
While we’ve come a long way over the past decade, the ‘big country town’ stigma of Perth still sticks.
Lanna Hill
Treasurer Jim Chalmers will not be organising a buck’s night ahead of the coming nuptials of Prime Minister Anthony Albanese and Jodie Haydon.
Michelle Grattan
Fool me once, shame on you. Fool me twice, shame on me. It’s up to voters to tell the difference if the Liberal party can’t.
Indigenous players are the lifeblood of our great game but dwindling numbers of them in our top flight competition needs to be addressed.
Justin Langer
The Cook Government’s interpretation and application of Aboriginal cultural heritage should concern all WA landowners.
Libby Mettam
WA supports uranium exploration. So surely we must support uranium mining right?
Warren Pearce
Former political leaders tend to fall into two groups.
MARK RILEY: The tribes have splintered. They are still there. But there are a great many more of them and they no longer identify automatically under the banner of the red team or the blue team.
Mark Riley
