Opinion
Child abuse
Why hasn’t this abandoned WA ‘molestation sanctuary’ been bulldozed to the ground?
Festering in an unremarkable corner of the Great Southern historic town are rows of drab red brick buildings just waiting for someone to do the right thing and bulldoze the lot of them.
- by Gary Adshead
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Corruption
State nothing but a broken record on our shonky tow-truck industry
This industry has been unregulated and lawless for years with a growing list of dubious operators able to charge anything, knowing they’ve got people over a barrel.
- by Gary Adshead
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Social media
Perth family’s trauma shows how social media has polluted our society
Financial crime, sexual exploitation, mental abuse, narcissism, intimidation and misinformation is flooding these platforms, and we need to make it stop now.
- by Gary Adshead
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Construction
Time for a reckoning over WA’s Nicheliving and construction crisis
This government overcooked the property market with millions of stimulus dollars in 2020, leading hundreds of ordinary West Australians into a nightmare.
- by Gary Adshead
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Crime
Giving domestic violence the hindsight treatment is one reason women are still getting murdered
If the account of Ariel Bombara is correct, it’s the real-time decisions that deserve a laser focus now, not looking back with hindsight.
- by Gary Adshead
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Planning
The big brown stain on the WA government’s housing efforts
Labor huffed and puffed about remedying the previous government’s inaction before demolishing the Brownlie Towers housing complex in 2019.
- by Gary Adshead
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Domestic violence
Why you won’t find this woman’s name on the list of Australian victims of domestic violence murders
Her partner pleaded guilty to doing “an act as a result of which the life, health or safety” of his victim “was likely to be endangered”.
- by Gary Adshead
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Radio
Anger, conspiracies, insults – and that’s just the pollies. Why I put Basil on the air (and keep bringing him back)
A weekly segment with Perth Lord Mayor Basil Zempilas would make for great radio, I thought. Who could have foreseen the ensuing outrage from our state’s political class?
- by Gary Adshead
Cockburn council shelves $114,000 ‘Croatia junket’ after public outcry
A proposal for City of Cockburn ratepayers to foot a $114,000 bill for the mayor and three councillors to spend a week in Croatia has been put on ice.
- by Heather McNeill and Gary Adshead
Opinion
Local council
$114k to attend a Croatian music festival: Is it time for councils to end sister city relationships?
A Cockburn council delegation to Split, Croatia, includes spending up to $25,000 on each councillor’s business class flights, plus an accommodation budget of $500 each per night.
- by Gary Adshead
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Metropolitan Cemeteries Board accidentally shares sensitive and confidential information on its website
WAtoday and 6PR were alerted to the gaping security hole in the MCB’s website, which meant anyone could access the documents by clicking on ‘restricted content’ links.
- by Gary Adshead