Price tag revealed for WA’s biggest ever infrastructure project
Ports

Price tag revealed for WA’s biggest ever infrastructure project

After two-and-a-half years of planning the Kwinana Westport business case has been handed to the government revealing a cost of $7.2 billion in today’s dollars compared to the $4.7 billion the project was originally slated to cost in 2020.

  • byHamish Hastie

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Direct from China to WA:The new freight service easing supply chains
Shipping

Direct from China to WA:The new freight service easing supply chains

Import industry experts are hopeful of easing supply pressures heading into Christmas as new shipping options open up for the state.

  • byClaire Ottaviano
Imaginative dishes make South Freo’s Madalena’s an essential address for lovers of seafood
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Madalena’s

Imaginative dishes make South Freo’s Madalena’s an essential address for lovers of seafood

Madalena’s menu proves unexpected thinking can take seafood to unexpected places.

  • byMax Veenhuyzen
Smoke show:Newly opened Cassia brings modern barbecue to Fremantle
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Cassia

Smoke show:Newly opened Cassia brings modern barbecue to Fremantle

Where there’s smoke,there’s woodfire (and carefully grilled fish,chicken,addictive potatoes and a love letter to the winemakers and brewers of Western Australia).

  • byMax Veenhuyzen
Design of the times:award-winning Perth architect reflects on four decades of building and designing hospitality hotspots
Architecture

Design of the times:award-winning Perth architect reflects on four decades of building and designing hospitality hotspots

From pioneering craft beer brewpubs to breezy cafes and new-wave hotels,Michael Patroni has seen – and designed – it all.

  • byMax Veenhuyzen
Three things I love:Art with kids is possible! Perth artist parents share their secrets
Three things I love

Three things I love:Art with kids is possible! Perth artist parents share their secrets

Galleries that are family-friendly,with amazing programming and space for running around are more common than you might think. Here’s your insider cheat sheet.

  • byEmma Young
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Bursting at the seams:Which suburbs are soaking up Perth’s skyrocketing population?
Population

Bursting at the seams:Which suburbs are soaking up Perth’s skyrocketing population?

The state’s population has swelled since 2019 and the growth is being absorbed in some surprising places,according to new analysis by KPMG Australia.

  • bySarah Brookes
Thrifty business:Perth people talk about their passion for op-shopping
People of Perth

Thrifty business:Perth people talk about their passion for op-shopping

Op shops and vintage stores are booming across the Perth metropolitan area for a range of reasons,from saving the environment to standing out in a crowd.

  • byMark Naglazas
The Aussie prison that’s a tourism hotspot thanks to AC/DC’s Bon Scott
Culture holidays

The Aussie prison that’s a tourism hotspot thanks to AC/DC’s Bon Scott

Fremantle Prison is one of Western Australia’s most popular tourist attractions,and a reminder of Bon Scott’s life and crimes.

  • byAnthony Dennis
Moody,magical – and quiet:Why summer isn’t the best time to visit Perth’s favourite holiday island
Opinion
Rottnest Island

Moody,magical – and quiet:Why summer isn’t the best time to visit Perth’s favourite holiday island

There is something extraordinarily beautiful about the dramatic landscape,rocky cliffs and translucent waters of Rotto in winter.

  • byBrendan Foster
Historic Freo tree faces axe as council backflips on protection – again
Heritage

Historic Freo tree faces axe as council backflips on protection – again

A prominent Moreton Bay fig is again in danger with the state’s most famously progressive council taking the 140-year-old beauty off its significant tree register.

  • byMark Naglazas andEmma Young