Iain Grandage’s fourth Perth Festival continued his focus on First Nations performance, together with an exhilarating dose of Black Futurism as well as demanding post-classical music.
Academic rigor, journalistic flair
Articles on Perth
Displaying 1 - 20 of 64 articles
Be prepared. Download an air quality app, stock up on respirators and stay inside if you can.
Australian governments play down the difference between child and adult offenders, and the costs are high
Vale Tricia: the beloved Asian elephant called Perth Zoo home since 1963. Her death has led to an outpouring of grief in Perth, especially among zookeepers and her fellow elephants.
Climate models point to these extreme heatwaves becoming more frequent in southwest Australia – a region considered a climate change hotspot.
Quenda are one of few remaining digging mammals in Australian urban bushlands, and fungi is their favourite food.
The death of 57-year-old Paul Millachip at Fremantle’s Port Beach is a reminder that shark bites, though rare, can be tragic. New research aims to reduce the risk by understanding sharks’ vision.
James Stirling was WA’s first governor from 1829-39. He condoned numerous acts of murder by white settlers.
Last week the Bureau of Meteorology declared a negative Indian Ocean Dipole — a natural climate phenomenon set to bring wet weather. Let’s look at what you can expect, and the role of climate change.
Perth’s City of Stirling, which honours James Stirling, is considering a name change. New research shows how Stirling’s family’s wealth was built on the back of slavery business.
New research fired laser beams on tiger snake scales, and found arsenic was 20-34 times higher in wild wetland snakes than in captive snakes.
Perth’s bushfires have destroyed 81 homes. It provides important lessons as we face a future of worsening climate.
Perth and surrounds will spend the next five days in lockdown, as authorities scramble to prevent a single case – a quarantine hotel security worker – from escalating into a full-blown COVID cluster.
Too often in conversations about cultural centres, the incredible resources already available are neglected.The Berndt Museum, in Perth, is a collection of national and international significance.
The rise of global cities, metropolises that dominate their states, is exposing Australia’s lack of metropolitan governments. It’s time to restart the evolution of our states after a century on hold.
Public protests eventually forced the scrapping of some proposed freeways in 1973. Today, we have another round of projects and people are protesting again, with good reason. Government should listen.
Australia’s capital cities have collectively lost 30% of their stored water over the last six years. But this loss is not evenly distributed across the country.
A blue boat shed in Perth, Western Australia, shows the power of social media and the rise of unpaid influencers in marketing.
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.
Top contributors
-
Professor of Sustainability, Curtin University
-
Associate Professor in Environmental Science, Western Sydney University
-
Adjunct professor, The University of Western Australia
-
Associate Professor & Programme co-ordinator (Masters of Public Policy), The University of Western Australia
-
Senior Research Fellow, The University of Western Australia
-
Professor of Coastal Oceanography, The University of Western Australia
-
Honorary Professor, Edith Cowan University
-
Senior Lecturer in Wildlife Ecology, Edith Cowan University
-
PhD Researcher, Research Unit in Public Cultures, The University of Melbourne
-
Research Fellow, National Drug and Alcohol Research Centre, UNSW Sydney
-
Senior Lecturer in Australian Politics, Monash University
-
Professor of Environmental Management, The University of Queensland
-
Senior Lecturer, School of Earth, Atmosphere and Environment, Monash University
-
Urban and Regional Design Researcher, Curtin University Sustainability Policy Institute, Curtin University
-
Professor of Economics and Public Policy, ANU College of Arts and Social Sciences, Australian National University
