Perth / Western Australia

With big-ticket items such as the AFL coming to Bunbury in 2025, Mr Miguel said the city would look at what other major projects it could introduce.

"We've spoken about a potential ocean pool, an art gallery, upgrades to Bicentennial Square, and a new hotel in the CBD," he said.

These are pretty small minded and/or transient projects. A city and population size like Bunbury should be thinking how to compete with Perth for actual industry share, not competing with Busselton or Margs for tourists.

Critical Minerals logistics and refining could be an area Bunbury is competitive, seeing as theres apparently reasonable quantity of Lithium down that way.

Maybe even set a course to get into battery manufacturing becoming a lithium battery specialist zone.

For those who may be going for an xmas light hunt.

Whats everyone's plans to swelter through the weekend?

Good Morning Perth!

My mother in-law and I are interested in getting solar with Batteries, but i am really not sure of the options are at the moment, at least from a cost and rebates perspective.

What are the current costs for your installs or quotes you have received?

Feel free to should out any good suppliers/installers you have worked with

Thanks!

They were also allowed to skirt the usual requirement to widen the adjacent Lyric Laneway. They would have had to widen it by 1.5m under the planning scheme, but were instead given concession for a minor 0.5m widening under the justification there was an electrical transformer in the way.

I understand the justification for this is a transformer which has since been moved, but i dont think the people of Maylands, businesses and ratepayers alike, understand what is so special about that town centre.

It is because that centre is reasonably pedestrian friendly and reasonably car unfriendly that Maylands is so attractive as a town centre. I mean its basically 200 metres either side of the railway station plus Eighth avenue, and its associated laneways, its a very walkable area, with a fair residential density in and around that area.

Demanding laneway widening is another step to undermine that strength Maylands has. It specifically creates a car sized environment, instead of a human scale environment. If anything the centre of Maylands should be enacting policies creating a human scale environment. That means smaller laneways are preferable.

Long story short, re-exempt them from the lane widening, on the grounds of creating a human scale Maylands.

I have to look for a christmas present for a nephew, and one of the thoughts was a poster of basketball players. Anyone know where there are places to buy them now?

I know there was a place at the royal show, but i am damned if i know where to go now.

There are online places, but shipping is about the same as the poster itself!

would love some options,

thanks!

An opposition case to the transfer of container ships from Freo to Westport by local leaders in Fremantle.

For the month of December 2024, the Perth/WA community is running a photo competition. The winning four photos being featured as the banner for a quarter of the year each is the glorious prize on offer!

Pictures must be taken by the user, and of something Western Australian, a centimetre over that border will be cause disqualification and shame! It can be as small or large as you like, a cool bug, Wave rock, a partial star picture, even a view of one of our bustling cities, or heaving rural towns. Quick reminder advertising isn’t allowed on Aussie-Zone, this of course applies here and the moderators will decide if an image crosses that line. So why not snap awhile while you Wait Awhile here in our beautiful State and enter this grande challenge.

The four winners will be selected by upvote only, downvote as much as you like, they have no power here! The highest upvoted will be selected, probably cut to size, and be displayed as the banner for a quarter of 2025. It’ll be assumed entrants agree to this use of the picture if you upload a photo on this thread.

Entrants can enter as many photos as they like. An entrant can win a maximum of two slots though. Their two highest upvoted will be taken. Our current banner will also be entered, as long as the current owner doesn’t mind.

The winners shall receive plaudits and praise on New Years Eve 2024, probably in the afternoon sometime. With the winner to be featured first whenever a moderator recovers enough from their hangover on New Years Day.

Bonus Competition An excellent ‘WA Christmas’ photo that is posted will be a bonus winner and immediately used as the banner for December 2024.

Geraldton doesn't have recycling, and Perth is rolling into 3 bins. Quite a gap in systems opening up. Not that, thats necessarily a bad thing, maybe theres an alternative more appropriate system for gero

"WA is Nature Positive" - New polling shows massive support in WA for stronger nature laws Responding to new research showing an overwhelming majority of West Australian voters support stronger nature laws to protect the places we love, the Executive Director of the Conservation Council of WA Jess Beckerling said the results show that the WA government and sections of the media are misrepresenting what West Australians want.

Polling of more than 1500 WA voters conducted by Redbridge shows that nearly 4 in 5 West Australians want stronger laws to protect nature (78%) and climate impacts for big projects to be assessed before they’re approved (79%).

It reinforces previous polling from YouGov that found 84% of West Australians want stronger nature laws, nearly identical to the national average (86%).

The new Redbridge polling also finds that three quarters of WA voters support the creation of a federal environmental regulator that is independent of government.

The findings come after a WA government MP previously broke ranks in WA Parliament in September to express concerns about “concerted effort by interest groups at a state and federal level” to hamstring nature law reforms.

WA Premier Roger Cook has repeatedly boasted that the WA Labor government has worked in tandem with major fossil fuel interests to lobby the federal Labor government to delay and weaken the introduction of new environmental protections laws.

It follows the passage last month of WA nature law reforms that will undermine the independence of the WA EPA, and recent changes to the WA government’s regulation of greenhouse gas emissions that will effectively remove any state-based conditions on major polluting projects like Woodside’s Burrup Hub expansion.

Following the release of polling today, Executive Director of the Conservation Council of WA Jess Beckerling said:

“This research should be a wake up call for the WA Labor Government. West Australians strongly support the protection of nature and real action on climate.

“Premier Roger Cook recently bragged that his government was “hunting in packs” with big business to water down and weaken national nature laws. This research shows that the WA Premier has been out of touch with what the overwhelming majority of West Australian voters want.

“The WA government’s anti-nature lobbying has been a massive betrayal of the significant majority of West Australians who love WA’s incredible natural environment and want stronger laws to protect it.

“This research is not surprising. Time and again, ordinary West Australians have stood up in huge numbers to defend forests, coral reefs, wetlands, urban bushland and other special places that make WA such a great place to live. It is in our nature to defend these places and I hope the Premier recognises the strong community sentiment here.

“Recent moves by the WA Government to undermine the independence of the EPA and remove the state government’s role in regulating climate pollution have been alarming.

We are calling on the Premier to listen to the majority of West Australians who want action to protect nature and reduce carbon emissions.

“These numbers highlight the fact that West Australians have been falsely represented by the WA government and some sections of our media. WA voters want strong nature laws.”

ENDS

“The non-toxic amino acid has the potential to replace hazardous chemicals like cyanide in mineral extraction processes,” Associate Professor Oraby said.

“The safer and more sustainable process is particularly suited for extracting valuable metals including gold, copper, cobalt, and nickel from ore, making it a critical innovation in the evolving minerals sector.”

Theres a childrens book in this story.

Interesting concepts coming out of UWA's architecture students.