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Perth’s underground smackdown

By lachlan.denney@postgrad.curtin.edu.au on July 17, 2026

Love at first swipe?

By Oda Bekkestad on July 17, 2026

No room to sing

By Kyle Halcyon on July 17, 2026

Rebuilding Te Whare Tapa Wha

By Renee Hilton-Jones on July 7, 2026

Pride flagged for removal

By Rachel Jennings on May 19, 2026

Fighting fire with fire

By Nima Monazami on May 14, 2026

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Carbon footprint leaves dirty mark for investors

By WI Reporters on January 29, 2011 • ( Leave a comment )

JOHN SIBENALER Carbon producing companies will need to fully disclose their carbon footprint to avoid being named and shamed under Australia’s first climate change shareholder resolutions. The resolutions will target the annual […]

Bloody battle for donation rights

By WI Reporters on January 29, 2011 • ( Leave a comment )

In a Launceston clinic in 2004, a Red Cross nurse told Michael Cain that he could not donate blood.

AFL refuses to budge on extra time

By WI Reporters on January 29, 2011 • ( Leave a comment )

BEN SOMERFORD Former West Coast premiership player and football commentator Karl Langdon says grand finals should be decided on the day and has called on the Australian Football League to scrap the […]

Cover Versions – a photo essay by Adrian Craddock

By WI Reporters on January 28, 2011 • ( Leave a comment )

Perth-ifying album covers from years gone by.

There’s No Place Like, No Place – a photo essay by Eliza Laschon

By WI Reporters on January 28, 2011 • ( Leave a comment )

A photo essay on the dogs of the Shenton Park Animal Refuge Centre.

Taxidermy Unexplained – a photo essay by Matthew Sykes

By WI Reporters on January 28, 2011 • ( Leave a comment )

A photo essay looking at the Museum of Natural History in Guildford, Western Australia.

Beach Life – a photo essay by Simen Lonning

By WI Reporters on January 25, 2011 • ( Leave a comment )

In the last three years of my life I have lived at Scarborough Beach, a well-known Perth suburb that attracts all kinds of people in summer time.

Bali Odyssey – a photo essay by Jodie Parker

By WI Reporters on January 25, 2011 • ( Leave a comment )

I decided to take photographs for my story board during my travels in Bali.

Cycling Passion – a photo essay by Emma Young

By WI Reporters on January 25, 2011 • ( Leave a comment )

My photoessay is about a group of intrepid cyclists, all forty-plus, including my parents.

Chocolate Obsession – a photo essay by Rosanna Candler

By WI Reporters on January 25, 2011 • ( Leave a comment )

What is our obsession with chocolate? With the average Australian scoffing over 17kg per year, it’s no wonder the gluttonous term ‘chocoholic’ has become a mainstream confectionery conviction. Maybe because it comes […]

Burlesque in Perth – a photo essay by Marijke Loosjes

By WI Reporters on January 25, 2011 • ( Leave a comment )

This photo essay is looking at the local Burlesque scene in Perth. Burlesque has seen a comeback recently and all over the world a revival has begun with more and more troops […]

Gone with the Wind – a photo essay by Marit Nore

By WI Reporters on January 25, 2011 • ( Leave a comment )

The powers of the wind and the ocean have changed the state of both my mind and body.

Fears of a pork shortage

By WI Reporters on January 24, 2011 • ( Leave a comment )

Rising production costs have sparked fears of a pork shortage ahead of Christmas as Claire Burton reports.

Swan River fears

By WI Reporters on January 24, 2011 • ( Leave a comment )

There are fears lower than normal rainfall will spell problems for Perth’s Swan River as Samantha Mills reports.

Perth's new theatre centre

By WI Reporters on January 24, 2011 • ( Leave a comment )

The curtain is about to go up on Perth’s new State Theatre Centre as Jamie Kennedy reports.

Light rail plans for Fremantle

By WI Reporters on January 24, 2011 • ( Leave a comment )

There are plans to bring a new kind of transport to Fremantle as Sallese Gibson reports.

Concerns about Fremantle Harbour dredging

By WI Reporters on January 24, 2011 • ( Leave a comment )

There are concerns about the impact of the dredging of Fremantle Harbour as Clair Morton reports.

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