Perth / Western Australia

Pick your favourites! :)

They're unhatched Megachidna eggs for sure.

Its quiet applications of the law like this that build my confidence that we live in a relatively just society still.

I was just wondering if anyone has ideas for what to do in the cbd during the week, after work? There is No Lights No Lycra dancing, quiz nights at The Brisbane and what else? Also would love to hear about any great restaurants to try.

For all the parents of young kids new playground at serpentine dam. They're calling it a nature playground. Might be a good lunch spot.

I've seen a few like this they seem quute nice.

A little update from the reasons for closure of the Guildford cafe, "Poste"

OG link, https://aussie.zone/post/10550030

Couple quotes from this article,

We generally as a rule do not object nor support an application (but) simply put in a submission pointing out where it does and doesn’t fit in within the city’s planning guidelines – from the R codes and the local area policies – that’s what we do,’’ she said.

Swan chief executive officer Stephen Cain said city staff had sought to work collaboratively with the café owners providing guidance and extensions along the way. “It was the decision of the owners not to lodge the development application that could have resolved their non-compliance,’’ he said.

I'm leaning towards this story being a disgruntled failing business owner wanting to lob some manure to save their own feelings of embarrassment as they exit the business. The thing is, the business owner should hold their heads high, they ran a business for a good few years and they had a go! No shame in that.

Why is the southwest WA so pagan? Its such an interestingly funny quirk down there.

From Bridgetown, Margaret River all the way to Denmark, Albany and Esperance theres this streak of interest in all this kind of stuff. :)

Didn't know the cables came through City Beach.

How can you allow your party to have a fallout like this when they are in such a weak position already? Its unbelievably poor leadership by S. Love, let alone being so immature as to bully colleagues in the parliament. Who the hell would want to vote for such a foolish behaviour.

Nationals should remove him as leader immediately. Cut the snake off at the head, deal with the many smaller heads that are bound to spring up quickly, before the WA election starts getting going.

Otherwise they're going into the election with proverbial 'cement for shoes'.

Below is the linked abstract in the article from PeerJ Analytical Chemistry.

Jarrah (Eucalyptus marginata) is a dominant forest tree endemic to the southwest of Western Australia. Its honey is appreciated for its highly desirable taste, golden colour, slow crystallisation, and high levels of bioactivity, which have placed Jarrah in the premium product range. However, whilst customers are willing to pay a high price for this natural product, there is currently no standard method for its authentication. As honey is naturally sourced from flower nectar, a novel route of authentication is to identify the nectar signature within the honey.

This study reports on a high-performance thin layer chromatography (HPTLC)-based authentication system which allows the tracing of six key marker compounds present in Jarrah flower nectar and Jarrah honey. Four of these markers have been confirmed to be epigallocatechin, lumichrome, taxifolin and o-anisic acid with two (Rf 0.22 and 0.41) still chemically unidentified. To assist with the characterisation of Jarrah honey, a range of physicochemical tests following Codex Alimentarius guidelines were carried out.

A blend of authenticated Jarrah honey samples was used to define the properties of this honey type. The blend was found to have a pH of 4.95, an electric conductivity of 1.31 mS/cm and a moisture content of 16.8%. Its water-insoluble content was 0.04%, its free acidity 19 milli-equivalents acid/kg and its diastase content 13.2 (DN). It also contains fructose (42.5%), glucose (20.8%), maltose (1.9%) and sucrose (<0.5%).

The HPTLC-based authentication system proposed in this study has been demonstrated to be a useful tool for identifying Jarrah honey and might also act as a template for the authentication of other honey types.

*Cite this as

Islam MK, Barbour E, Locher C. 2024. Authentication of Jarrah (Eucalyptus marginata) honey through its nectar signature and assessment of its typical physicochemical characteristics. PeerJ Analytical Chemistry 6:e33 https://doi.org/10.7717/peerj-achem.33*

Gona do a race around the casino? Maybe they can race around the entrance and call it 'Packers u-bend'. Really drive home the key beneficiary of this plan.

Of course.. i can't think of anywhere else around Perth you'd have it so maybe i should shut up :)

The Supercars.com article has a bit more to it, but heres the watoday article, https://www.watoday.com.au/politics/western-australia/perth-street-circuit-to-host-supercars-from-2026-20240616-p5jm5l.html

Somewhat surprising. I don't know if its the best use of the water, but its certainly creative.

Loctite company better watch out, clags comin in with the strong stuff!

Edit: string to strong

15 years already! Can't believe its been that long already.

Good set of pictures of the event at the end of the article.

They're big, brash and loud. But a beautiful sight to see when a group of ten or twenty flap about overhead, or squawk at each other as you walk underneath them.

Philanthropy is a 'lover of humanity', and is represented by the 3 T's (Time, Treasure, Talent) is the article in summary.

Aren't philanthropists meant to be arms length support for 'good causes' though? How does time and talent compute with that?

Dr Yin said 100,000 hectares of forest had been wiped out through prolonged drought and “heat-making ecological restoration” in the last six months.

Does anybody know what "heat making ecological restoration" means? Is this a fancy phrase for the firies doing burn-offs?