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We have learnt to be wary of big data, but it can also be your friend: one platform combines and analyses data about housing, jobs and transport to reveal very useful information about living in Perth.
This Perth exhibition is a raucous, overwhelming, exciting and at times confusing immersion into ideas about national identity.
Ultimately, most regulatory interventions in nightlife precincts are about imposing particular ideas of social and moral order not only within these spaces but also in the city more broadly.
A new report shows building smaller houses as opposed to apartments in city fringes could provide more affordable housing.
Perth is looking at recycling all its sewage in the city’s future water supply. But many Australians’ drinking water already contains indirectly recycled treated sewage.
Perth, unlike Cape Town, faces no prospect of its tapwater running out. But other problems lurk beneath the surface, as the city’s drying climate puts increasing pressure on irrigation and wetlands.
Cities all over the world are facing growing challenges to provide clean, reliable water. And many of the fixes, such as desalination plants, have a huge carbon footprint.
The situation in Perth in particular has some parallels to that of Cape Town, but Australian cities responded to the last big drought by investing in much bigger water supply and storage capacity.
European ideas of the campus as a place apart shaped Australia’s “sandstone” universities. Now universities are adopting urban regeneration strategies, bringing the city to the campus and vice versa.
In 1983, Mirka Mora painted a 21-metre mural in the forecourt of the Perth Concert Hall. The story of this remarkable painting’s creation is fascinating.
Drains take up precious but inaccessible open space in our cities. Converting these to living streams running through the suburbs could make for healthier places in multiple ways.
Australians are losing the backyards that once served as retreats from the stresses of city living. Our health is likely to suffer as cities become less green and much hotter.
Census data shows there is income inequality between, but also within, regions of Australia.
A study of Australian and US cities has demonstrated that pet ownership strengthens people’s connections with their neighbours.
Data on housing supply in Australia’s capital shows that while it’s increasing in areas with lots of jobs, house prices are too high for those who might want to move for work.
With WA’s election looming, Perth’s battle over the Roe 8 highway extension brings other environmental issues to the fore.
The Museum of Water invites people to bring samples of water significant to them.
West Australian Labor leader Mark McGowan said his state has the “worst rate of methamphetamine usage in the country”. We asked the experts to check the evidence.
Rose Skinner opened her Perth gallery in 1958. But her contribution to the art world has been skimmed in Christopher Heathcote’s recent look at Australia’s early art market.
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Associate Professor in Environmental Science, Western Sydney University
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Professor of Sustainability, Curtin University
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Senior Lecturer in Wildlife Ecology, Edith Cowan University
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PhD Researcher, Research Unit in Public Cultures, The University of Melbourne
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Interim Director, UWA Public Policy Institute; Associate Professor & Programme Co-ordinator (Masters of Public Policy), The University of Western Australia
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Honorary Professor, Edith Cowan University
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Professor of Coastal Oceanography, The University of Western Australia
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Senior Research Fellow, School of Biological Sciences and Oceans Institute, The University of Western Australia
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Professor of History, The University of Western Australia
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John Curtin Distinguished Professor & ARC Future Fellow, Curtin University
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Adjunct Professor at the National Drug Research Institute (Melbourne based), Curtin University
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