Perth’s top private schools smash $30,000 fee ceiling for first time in 2023

Perth’s top private schools smash $30,000 fee ceiling for first time in 2023

Perth’s private school fees have risen to record levels,with some increasing costs by up to 10 per cent – but they’re still a bargain next to those in the east.

  • byHolly Thompson

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Controversial $80 million South Perth recreation hub to go ahead

Controversial $80 million South Perth recreation hub to go ahead

The state has re-educated a group of councillors wielding a voting majority in defiance of community sentiment as $20 million federal cash hangs in the wind.

  • byEmma Young
Baby drought:The suburbs with Perth’s lowest fertility rates

Baby drought:The suburbs with Perth’s lowest fertility rates

A fertility fault line divides the regions of greater Perth with only one suburban area having enough babies to maintain a stable population.

  • bySarah Brookes
Perth suburban council moves for power to ignore petitions

Perth suburban council moves for power to ignore petitions

Progress on an $80 million recreational facility opposite an inner-city university has ground to a halt – despite a community that actually wants development. And now some councillors want to only deal with ‘decorous and temperate’ petitions.

  • byEmma Young
Plot thickens over controversial $80m South Perth aquatic centre

Plot thickens over controversial $80m South Perth aquatic centre

Residents of the inner southern suburbs are in uproar as a landmark project they thought was signed and sealed is now in jeopardy due to council infighting.

  • byEmma Young
New plan to tackle Canning Bridge high rise anger

New plan to tackle Canning Bridge high rise anger

To masterplan an area you outline a vision,hone controls,then developers interpret this with designs that tick the boxes yet stay profitable. Simple,right?

  • byEmma Young
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Nine newsreader Tracy Vo tops off Kimberley holiday with engagement announcement

Nine newsreader Tracy Vo tops off Kimberley holiday with engagement announcement

On Tuesday,the veteran Nine newsreader revealed she was targeted in a racist tirade a South Perth cafe. On Thursday she’s celebrating in the Kimberley sun.

  • byDaile Cross andSarah Brookes
‘Where are you from?’:Nine newsreader calls out vile racism

‘Where are you from?’:Nine newsreader calls out vile racism

Veteran Nine newsreader Tracy Vo said the incident at a South Perth cafe was a reminder intolerant and closed-minded people still existed in modern-day Australia.

  • bySarah Brookes
Perth,why can’t you provide apartments families want to live in?
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Perth,why can’t you provide apartments families want to live in?

We have lived in apartments before. We now live in a tiny villa with a toddler. We need to upsize and were considering apartments. But they don’t consider us.

  • byEmma Young
It’s one of Perth’s nicest neighbourhoods,but it’s poor in other ways
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It’s one of Perth’s nicest neighbourhoods,but it’s poor in other ways

In the latest of a series of controversial Perth council decisions,a wealthy inner-city area has decided not to provide a new facility for residents.

  • byEmma Young
Perth zookeeper pays tribute to beloved elephant Tricia after her death

Perth zookeeper pays tribute to beloved elephant Tricia after her death

At 65 years old,she was among the oldest elephants in the world and the oldest being cared for by a zoo in Australasia.

  • byEmma Young andHolly Thompson