One doubts whatever it is, could be any worse than the mental images your Aunt is currently harbouring.
Jay Hanna
With the mercury forecast to hit 38C on Saturday and pass the 40C mark on Sunday and Monday, West Australians shouldn’t need a reminder that summers in our State can be brutal.
Editorial
One of president-elect Donald Trump’s controversial initiatives is the creation of the Department of Government Efficiency to reduce US government expenditure and improve efficiency.
Raymond Da Silva Rosa
Is it possible that in our election, Labor’s advantage among women fades to some degree, reduced by more general cost-of-living concerns?
Michelle Grattan
The Government is going nuclear over the Coalition’s energy plans, and its inability to take off the renewable blinkers bodes ill for our future.
Paul Murray
There is always a lot of attention drawn to resolutions, but I wonder if we spend enough time reflecting on the year that has already been.
Justin Langer
WA Liberal leader Libby Mettam has made good on her promise to visit the Great Southern before the end of the year, meeting residents in Mt Barker and Albany this week with Albany candidate Thomas Brough.
Melissa Sheil
This Christmas will be reminder to many West Australians families of what they have lost this year.
Out of the 4000 awards recognising individual excellence in ATAR and vocational courses announced this week, girls picked up nearly 60 per cent.
Bethany Hiatt
I’ve crowned the very best and the worst from throughout this year.
Ben Harvey
As Christmas approaches, it’s a time for families, communities, and indeed the entire State to come together, to reflect on the year gone and to look to the future.
Libby Mettam
On January 1 we will finally see how many residential homes have been flipped into commercial short stay accommodation through online platforms such as Airbnb.
Evan Hall
Advocates say that using language may dissuade men from coming forward or calling each other out. We need to call these people what they are.
As Rick Morton recently reminded me: ‘There is still beauty in the world for those who have eyes for it’, and kids certainly have the eyes for it at Christmas. The older ones just need some help focusing.
Kelsie Prabawa-Sear
Peter Dutton and key shadow ministers give the distinct impression they are not across details of their own policies, despite making it a key point of attack on Anthony Albanese.
Katina Curtis
Here’s why Gina Rinehart should just buy Melbourne.
Just as Howard’s battlers were won over by the introduction of first home buyers grants in the late 90s, the same cohort will be rushing to polling booth.
Kim Macdonald
“By focusing on the children’s happiness ... separated parents can turn school holidays into a time of joy and connection for everyone involved,” writes Albany-based lawyer Marnie Parkinson.
Marnie Parkinson
Mediscare has helped Labor win one election and was highly effective in two others. Why wouldn’t they dust it off for the fourth time?Who cares that voters hate it?
With an election on the horizon and the Liberal leadership still a bone of contention, here’s what Ben Harvey thinks lies ahead in WA politics over the next 12 months.
We want the Government to urgently re-calibrate its approach to both domestic and foreign policy before it is too late.
Colin Rubenstein
Offsetting the carbon emissions of the nation while creating nearly 20,000 jobs and $74 billion in economic value. That’s the reward on offer if WA can successfully launch a large scale green iron industry.
Rebecca Tomkinson
As the State’s high school graduates celebrate or commiserate their ATAR results, WA’s politicians head into the holiday season wondering whether voters have them on the naughty or nice list.
Jessica Page
The Indonesian government has let five drug smugglers return home to Australia. It’s hard to imagine why a country that imposes the death penalty for drug crimes would do something like this, but we’ll take it.
Isabelle Mullen
