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Perth, Australia's hoon capital

Sunday, 22 November 2009 2:07 P GMT+10

Having returned repeatedly to Perth, Western Australia over the last two decades, I've seen a lot of changes. The place practically doubled in population, became ethnically and culturally way more diverse, and is now far more aggressive and fast-

Perth plod's monkey madness

Wednesday, 26 August 2009 1:12 P GMT+10

Over in Perth, a bloke pretending to be a monkey has been arrested by a bloke pretending to be a policeman . Kind of ironic, since that city has more than its fair share of criminal rock apes running free.

Andrew Mallard accepts payment

Tuesday, 26 May 2009 12:39 P GMT+10

Andrew Mallard still isn't happy, even though he has accepted the West Australian Government's offer of over three million bucks. (He originally requested over seven million.) But what's the diff between $7.25 million and $3.25 mill

Cottesloe icon gone

Saturday, 23 May 2009 7:47 P GMT+10

Anyone who has been to pictaresque Cottesloe beach will remember the pylon situated near the groin. I often surfed at that beach when I was a young grommet decades ago, and caught waves only metres from it numerous time. Last time I went there, a cou

Andrew Mallard

Saturday, 9 May 2009 2:55 P GMT+10

Andrew Mallard, who was wrongfully convicted for murder and spent 12 years in the slammer, has been offered over three million bucks in compensation. Yet he reckons it's not enough. While the poor bastard went through hell, justice was even

Beach butt ban

Saturday, 9 May 2009 11:41 A GMT+10

Smoking will be banned practically everywhere in WA, including between the flags on beaches. Bizzare. And what'd be the point? Smoking while swimming is practically impossible anyway ...

Everybody loves Ray

Wednesday, 29 April 2009 2:08 P GMT+10

Just learned that my old schoolmate Ray Costarella has wowed 'em at Australian Fashion Week. It seems he hasn't yet got a Wikipedia entry. He certainly deserves one. Any contributors out there who want to start a page for him?

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Sydney the best city in Oz?

Tuesday, 28 April 2009 2:42 P GMT+10

So Sydney is the best place to live in Australia, according to this survey. Sorry, but I can't agree with this assessment. Sydney is a fantastic place, no doubt about it. But it's also extremely crowded, frenetic and grotty. Perth and Melbour

Another occidental fall

Monday, 26 January 2009 11:06 P GMT+10

Re those spooky Perth plunges: there's just been one more.Alien spacecraft will be landing on the Narrows Bridge shortly, I suspect. (Thanks to Spot the Blog for the link.)

The men who fell to Perth

Sunday, 18 January 2009 9:14 P GMT+10

In entirely unrelated incidents, two blokes have fallen from balconies in Perth, Western Australia. Compounding the weirdness, there was a markedly similar spate of horror plunges in that same city at about this time last year. Maybe it's related

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Heath Ledger Theatre controversy

Friday, 31 October 2008 2:19 P GMT+10

Still over in the mild west: The Perth arts community is all asquitter over the naming of a new theatre complex. Knowing how petty and parochial that joint is the discord this issue creates will probably last for decades. You'd think that as purp

Joe and Kev

Sunday, 7 September 2008 12:56 P GMT+10

Here's Joe Hockey's analysis of the outcome in West Oz. He attributes Labor's poor result to dissatisfaction with Kevin Rudd. I reckon he's nailed it. Intriguingly, Hockey and Kevin Rudd are good mates. Amazing that they can keep

Gary Adshead, journalistic joke

Sunday, 25 May 2008 3:36 P GMT+10

The absurdity of this Troy Buswell quokka-kicking "scandal" still has me reeling!See, several days ago, I received a call from a friend in Perth who left a message saying that there was a story about me being the quokka soccer "ho

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Reece Whitby has cake, eats it too

Wednesday, 21 May 2008 1:40 P GMT+10

Journalist Reece Whitby keeps his old gig as a hack for Channel 7, even though he's one of Labor's new star recruits.You'd think that some hacks and/or or pollies would be mightily shat off about this. And surely such a situatio

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Lives destroyed by chair sniffing

Sunday, 11 May 2008 2:40 P GMT+10

So the woman whose chair was sniffed by Troy Buswell feels victimized twice over now that she's been publicly identified. She says: "At the end of the day, it isn't Buswell who cops it. It is me." I think Tro

Jaye Radisich ups the ante

Saturday, 10 May 2008 3:55 P GMT+10

Alan Carpenter keeps saying that he didn't lift Jaye Radisich's top, and that her refusal to explicitly confirm this is related to internal Labor Party power plays.But then why would she go and hire a bloody lawyer? My guess is that it&

Pam Casellas defends a dinosuar

Wednesday, 7 May 2008 8:47 P GMT+10

Mediocre West Australian columnist Pam Casellas reveals that classic double standard of the cowardly PC feminist: It's only sexual harassment if your political enemies do it. Sure, I agree that Troy Buswell has been a bonehead who deserves

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Chair sniffers and breast nuzzlers

Monday, 5 May 2008 2:17 P GMT+10

The West Oz meeja are going spacko over this Troy Buswell chair-sniffing scandal. But there's another related controversy that has receved little attention yet has been brewing for a while.That's the Alan Carpenter blouse-lifting and br

Buswell versus Rudd

Wednesday, 30 April 2008 2:53 P GMT+10

Of course the WA squitterati will be sneering up a storm over the boorish Liberal Party Leader Troy Buswell. Certainly his boisterous behaviour -- which included sniffing a chair while pretending to be a dog, and snapping the bra-strap of a sta

Perth Waterfront controversy

Tuesday, 22 April 2008 1:35 P GMT+10

The proposed Perth Waterfront extravaganza is proving a tad controversial. Seems that the ginormous towers on the riverside that are the centerpiece of the project will spoil the view for many. But it's not just the waterfront on the up and

Another hack for Labor

Monday, 7 April 2008 12:23 P GMT+10

Here we go. Another journalist has been parachuted into Labor. This one's a TV hack from WA called Reece Whitby. Premier Alan Carpenter (himself a former journo) reveals a deep disdain for the rank and file of his own party with

Heath Ledger "blood, sweat and tears" myth grown from Barron earth?

Tuesday, 18 March 2008 12:51 P GMT+10

Forgive the analogy, but the Heath Ledger plot continues to thicken. Latest revelation: Heath Ledger's father Kim invested in Barron Films just before the young actor got his big break in one of their productions. This

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Boom bloom to hit Barrack St

Wednesday, 13 February 2008 9:41 P GMT+10

Still more frenzied construction to occur in WA. Premier Alan Carpenter has just announced a humungous upgrade of the Barrack St waterfront area. When I was back in Perth in 2000, I remember the Premier at the time, Liberal Richar

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Super-stadium for Subi

Monday, 11 February 2008 3:34 P GMT+10

Another indication of the amazing strength of the WA economy is this project: A huge new stadium will be built in Kitchener Park, Subiaco. I lived about 30 seconds walk from the park from 1998 to 2002. As far as I can recall Subiaco

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Heath Ledger funeral frenzy

Saturday, 9 February 2008 3:22 P GMT+10

When he was alive, Heath Ledger's home town of Perth was a haven of privacy for him and his family.Not that way now.

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