Perth / Western Australia

This is a friendly heads up that Perths best festival is coming up in just over a month!

Astrofest!!

• 5:30pm - 9:30pm
• Saturday 9th October

The festival usually has an astrophotography comp, star or moon gazing (possibly cloud gazing if we're unlucky), talks, food vans and more.

Thats too close to Freo for me! Looks like i'll be going to Scabs from now on!

That is actually a really cool industry event to have here in Perth. Did anybody get their wheat on?

Makes sense, Freo definitely fits the mold for a Teal type candidate. Labor must have known seats they hold would be coming up for this challange soon as well.

If only the major parties had pushed themselves to maintain higher levels of membership, they might not be facing such an active and well resourced independents movement.

I think the King needs at least two extra days of celebration for his birthday..

I wonder if its like hairdressers apprenticeships, where you can get a cut for free/cheaper, but in this case a cheaper car service?

She did it! 🐊

The building materials for the facade of London Court came from the dismantled mine head out in Kookynie?!

A rally will be held in Margaret River at the weekend to call on the state government to fund rapid bushfire suppression equipment and scale back “failing” prescribed burns in the South West.

Globally there has been a shift towards adopting new early detection and rapid suppression equipment to quickly identify and extinguish bushfires.

The technology, including smoke detection cameras, satellite monitoring, AI software and drones to give a bird’s-eye view to spot developing fires, is already operational in Canada and California.

It is being rolled out in European countries and along the east coast of Australia.

WA Forest Alliance senior campaigner Jason Fowler said the WA government and Department of Biodiversity, Conservation and Attractions were lagging and reliant on “outdated and dangerous” policy.

“The prescribed burning program is no longer effective at protecting South West communities in a drying and warming climate,” he said.

“Only half of prescribed burns close to communities have been completed last year because they are too risky.

“Forests are also suffering with an increasing number of high-intensity burns causing severe damage.”

The plans for two hotels is noticeably absent from this article.

The impact on the inhabitants of these forests is conspicuous in its absence from this article, but i guess they have some allies in the trail users.

Just stalking the 'about' side bar over on c/melbourne, as any Western Australian on a Saturday night is of course doing... we have lives over here!.. I think... , and noticed they adopted a Numbat at Perth Zoo!

How freakin cool! Cheers guys! But, why in Perth and not Melbourne?

Okay, if theres a 15 year old on the teacup ride then i don't think i'll feel safe. I need to see that 'pack a day' guy behind the controls or i just won't feel reassured. /j