Contrary to what you’ve been told, Fremantle fans, it’s not wrong to say the ‘F’ word.
Samantha Rogers
The rule book used to include respect. That’s largely been thrown out the political window too.
Jessica Page
The numbers make it difficult to conclude anything other than this: housing confidence is heading towards a cliff.
The West Australian
Andrew Hastie’s call to tie immigration with housing supply could in fact end badly, politically, even if it’s popular and makes sense during a housing crisis.
Stephen Johnson
Everyone who has prompted ChatGPT recently to imagine what they looked like in the 1980s is going to feel pretty stupid if AI brings about the extinction of humanity in the next decade.
Ben O'Shea
Australians take too many illicit drugs. We need to talk about its link to the organised crime violence in our communities and the impact it is having on our national security.
Krissy Barrett, AFP Commissioner
One Nation has lobbed into the political debate a plan to ‘reset’ Australia’s immigration system and the political classes have worked themselves into a lather in response.
Australia’s counterterrorism muscle memory could be fading just as the extremist threat evolves.
Andrew Greene
Texting was supposed to make communications easier. Instead, it has given us a whole new set of ways to misunderstand one another.
Gary Martin
‘Australia is a lucky country run by second-rate people who share its luck.’
Andrew Miller
West Australians know that the fight to preserve existing GST arrangements — which other States continue to quibble are unfair — isn’t quite over.
By the time you are reading this, the result of the latest by-election in Australia should be known.
BEN HARVEY
We are left with a stalled market and higher rates while the lack of housing supply remains unsolved.
Spring is probably the most exciting time to be in the garden.
CHARLIE ALBONE
No wonder most Australians have lost faith in parliamentarians who appear more interested in playing politics for electoral advantage than fixing our problems.
Paul Murray
It isn’t the sport itself that really matters — it is every moment of joy and relief these clubs bring to our farmers, who need them as much as everyone needs their community to flourish and stay healthy.
Justin Langer
Nearly 3000 lives were lost — including ten Australians — when al-Qaida terrorists hijacked four commercial airliners and crashed them into the World Trade Center. It remains a defining moment.
The new mountain bike trails on Mt Clarence offer a new challenge for Albany’s young people to take on, writes Big Grove resident Ian Spurgeon.
Ian Spurgeon
I was super-confident about a Fremantle win tonight – until I read Mick Malthouse’s preview in Thursday’s West. But I’m going to keep the faith and stay confident Fremantle will rediscover their best. Go Freo!
Basil Zempilas
The realisation that people do not like to be lectured, hectored and talked down to is taking hold.
Early settlers and farmers who shaped Albany after European colonisation should be recognised in Albany’s bicentenary, writes a Green Valley resident.
R. B. Lamont
WA has long tried to balance the economic benefits of resource projects against their demands on land, water and infrastructure. Data centres require the same level of scrutiny.
Kim Macdonald
The national mood is sour. We have been hit by a perfect economic and political storm.
The Premier has called the by-election defeat 10 days ago ‘bruising’ but Labor still appear mystified by what it means.
