A Fremantle monument to three white explorers was revised in 1994 to acknowledge the violence committed against Indigenous owners. As Australia struggles to reconcile its racist past, perhaps this monument shows a way forward.
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Western Australia has huge amounts of sunshine and wind, yet only 7% of its energy comes from renewables. What’s more, most households in the poorest suburbs are still locked out of the solar panel boom.
In two 30-year periods, an area in WA roughly the size of England was stripped of native vegetation for farming. It has produced some of our finest writers, from A.B. Facey to Dorothy Hewitt to Jack Davis.
The government shouldn’t cave to WA’s calls for a change to the way GST is divvied out. The current system has served Australia well.
The government has ordered the Productivity Commission to review how the GST revenue is sliced up.
Despite its name, the National Electricity Market doesn’t reach WA. But those charged with guiding the eastern states’ energy transition should look west once in a while.
The appointment of Western Australia’s first minister for Asian engagement shows the new state government understands how deeply embedded the state’s interests are in the Asian neighbourhood.
With WA’s election looming, Perth’s battle over the Roe 8 highway extension brings other environmental issues to the fore.
Murujuga, or the Burrup Peninsula, is home to over a million rock artworks. But as concern grows about the impact of industrial pollution on the art, the WA government continues to play down the area’s heritage value.
West Australian Labor leader Mark McGowan’s responded to The Conversation’s request for sources and comment regarding our FactCheck on methamphetamine usage rates in Western Australia.
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.
With its dramatic landscape, relative isolation and vibrant counter culture, Western Australia has a thriving writing scene. But government funding cuts are biting.
Protest poetry has an esteemed history, from the British war poets to writers behind the Iron Curtain. In Perth, poets are protesting against a contentious road extension and their words are charged.
Changing the date of Australia Day celebrations – as the City of Fremantle has done – is a move towards a less racist future. And when it comes to challenging insularity, there are other positive signs in Western Australia.
Western Australia posted enviable growth numbers for a long time. But the trend is now going the wrong way, and unless something is done soon there will be difficult times ahead.
The front yards, footpaths and verges of Australian suburbs are spaces overdue for reinvention.
Western Australia’s super-corals are adapted to high temperatures, but even they didn’t escape the recent bleaching event unscathed.
How WA managed to emerge from the mining boom with an estimated debt burden of $40 billion is one of the West’s great mysteries. Or not, if you bother to look more closely.
It sounds weird, but releasing small cane toads ahead of the main invasion front can help predators learn to avoid the biggest, most toxic ones. Here’s exactly how it works.
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Executive Director, John Curtin Institute of Public Policy, Curtin University
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Honorary Professor, Edith Cowan University
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Lecturer in Public Policy, University of Sydney
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Lecturer, Environmental and Conservation Science, Murdoch University
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Wen Family Chair in Conservation, The University of Western Australia
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Senior Lecturer of Australian Politics, Murdoch University
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Associate Professor in Politics, Murdoch University
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Professorial Fellow, University of Canberra
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Shark biologist, The University of Western Australia
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Professor of Marine Botany, The University of Western Australia
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Associate Professor of History, Australian National University
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Professor of Sustainability, Curtin University
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Professor in Plant Ecology, Murdoch University
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Senior Lecturer, Human Geography, Curtin University
