There was no shortage of ambition on display in 1896 when the time came to start work on the Perth Observatory.
Malcolm Quekett
Where the ground gets chewed up you go somewhere else.
They form a tangible link between the modern city of Perth and the early days of the Swan River Colony
The hospital has embedded itself deeply into the State’s fabric, and has been the birthplace of multiple generations of West Australians.
You can hardly blame Australians for being late to the party when it comes to elections. Here are some of the defining moments of the past five weeks.
Danielle Le Messurier
All eyes need to be on the billions that don’t come out of thin air, says Brian Burke, as he takes an in-depth look at the seats that could make all the difference come May 3
Brian Burke
It’s not an offence for Albo to say the untruthful things he does, as Noel Crichton-Browne knows well, but we should call the lies out
Noel Crichton-Browne
When a faint radio call from the 2/2 Independent Company was picked up in Darwin, it was greeted with scepticism.
You are a scoundrel and a blackguard, and that if it was not from motives of prudence, I would give you a sound drubbing.
The auditorium featured four artificial waterfalls and the dome of the roof was built to slide sideways to improve ventilation
“Parents who brought small children into town for the celebrations carried them shoulder high to prevent them getting crushed.”
I dropped mail bags all the way down Brearley Avenue (leading to the airport). I thought ‘that’s the end of my job’
He was footman to an acclaimed actress. Butler to a WA governor’s wife. Smooth talker. Seafarer. Fugitive. Storyteller. Fantasist. Conman. Liar.
It started with an interview on Fox News where he admitted he was stretched thin and events throughout the week look likely to make it worse for the highly visible billionaire on unique a cost-cutting mission
Laura Newell
Gratitude was habitual with a dog, while man, a superior animal, often bit the hand that fed him.
Hay Street’s slow progression to becoming partly a pedestrian mall has a long and contested history.
Allied POWs spent the last months of their lives starving as they were marched through the jungle by their captors.
“I remember thinking — the noise was just awful — I thought ‘I am 18 years old and tonight I die’.”
Each buggy was the scene of a picnic, most of those who drove bringing their own provender
The shoal of swimmers, each with an attendant boat, looked like a school of herring, with a fishing fleet in attendance.
Through its fundraising efforts it became a major part of Perth cultural life which featured well-known — and ultimately controversial — entertainment areas by the river in Perth and also in Fremantle.
Forming themselves into processions the happy-hearted crowd exultantly thronged the street with such manifest joy as to make the heart of the most confirmed pessimist glow.
It is a calm that has been lovingly planted in a space that was once a vivid symbol of how inner cities can fall into urban decay.
For those of us unwilling to challenge traditional silhouettes — or to walk around looking like they’ve been attacked by a police dog — the impracticality presents problems.
Robert Drewe
