Stories of people moving from accounting roles to carpentry, marketing to bricklaying and project management to electrical work look like tales of increasingly smart choices.
Gary Martin
WA motorists should not need the warning, but the first day back at school also threatens to be a big day on our roads, particularly around key crossing points near schools.
Kafka’s protagonists came to see their grinding defeats as inevitable. The difference for us is we have community connection through our fair values and therein lies a power that even presidents fear.
Andrew Miller
Roger Cook calls WA’s relationship with China complex. That relationship is set to become even more complex as WA becomes a nuclear submarine powerhouse and significant cog of AUKUS.
Joe Spagnolo
Every now and then you get jolted by something that reminds you how fast time flies. I was shaken a few days ago when I read a story about how it has been 30 years since Sarah Spiers disappeared.
Ben Harvey
The new pencil case with the slots, the books to be covered in contact. Yes, I was a massive nerd, but also, I was stuck on a farm with two older brothers.
Nat Locke
When Mark Butler ordered a review of all the applications in a national medical research grant program to get to the bottom of whether the scheme holds anti-WA bias it was another sort of breakthrough.
We all know there’s a difference between marketing that guides people and marketing that pushes them, and now ASIC’s 2026 outlook makes that distinction unavoidable.
Lanna Hill
The battle over the Liberal leadership took a dramatic turn late on Friday when Andrew Hastie announced he was pulling out.
Michelle Grattan
‘Just don’t go full Thelma and Louise and get yourself in so much trouble with the law that the only option is to launch yourselves off a cliff.’
Jay Hanna
As WA schools all open their doors again next week, amid the many issues parents will need to grapple with is kids’ food.
Editorial
Since Albanese announced his government would recognise Palestine, he has made no progress in advancing the ersatz conditions he put on the recognition of a sovereign state that doesn’t even exist.
Paul Murray
JUSTIN LANGER: In Voges, I see a success story that hasn’t been loud or flashy. It has been methodical, modern and deeply effective.
Justin Langer
Expanding pathways for greater diversity into politics isn’t about symbolism. It’s about performance, and it’s about giving voters real choice.
Clare Feenan
West Australians are finding life incredibly tough, and with experts saying it could be as many as four interest rate rises over the next year - out of control government spending has to stop.
Basil Zempilas
Too many tourists leave Egypt with an indelible image of cruelty: camels and horses beaten, denied water and forced to haul visitors in the blistering desert sun until they collapse.
Jill Barton
Treasurer Jim Chalmers will be the person pulling the economic levers upon which so much rests.
Katie Allen’s experience showed that although much of the noise in politics rises from the angry edges, there is only one way elections are won.
Mark Riley
Three years of age. A tutor. Maths. Those words don’t seem to belong together. But it’s happening amid a growing divide between rich and poor.
Kim Macdonald
The 12-month closure of the Fremantle Traffic Bridge is necessary to complete the incredible new bridge that will replace the ageing timber structure, but it will cause traffic congestion in and around Freo.
Rita Saffioti
In the digital era, love letters have been replaced by late-night texts, postcards by Instagram posts, and ticket stubs by QR codes. It’s part of a broader societal shift.
Going ‘no contact’ is the ultimate status symbol for the ultra-privileged, says Jeni O’Dowd.
Jeni O’Dowd
It is hard to escape the thought that since COVID Australia has struggled to put the traditional economy back together.
Starting school is a big moment in a child’s life, with new routines, new people and new places. These changes can also mean it’s a stressful time. But it doesn’t have to be.
Fiona Boylan
