Rooms in boarding houses were in high demand. And when they were full or too expensive, tent cities sprang up around the fringes of Perth and Fremantle.
Malcolm Quekett
WA’s church leaders open up on the true meaning of Easter and how we are now more aware than ever about the need for reconciliation, peace, and friendship.
For most of the public, 1979 was largely a pretext to have a good time.
Hemmed into an impossibly hot, dry, dusty and dangerous slice of north Africa in World War II, the Diggers faced seemingly insurmountable odds.
When the gold boom changed the face of WA almost overnight, a key supply chain was developed to supply the towns which were rapidly ballooning and running out of resources.
‘We would be dropped in by helicopters, there would be no one around us so we had to do our work quickly.’
White House correspondent Katie Rogers and her colleagues got the full Donald Trump experience during a colourful and candid conversation.
Katie Rogers
Global instability and political tension will continue to dominate the news headlines in 2026, with wars continuing, elections at home and abroad, further fall out from the Bondi Beach terror attack.
Caitlyn Rintoul
The impact of one of the world’s best rock bands — which continues to fill arenas across the nation after decades of dominance — can’t be understated.
Ben O'Shea
There is a feeling that sometimes rises to the surface that we are a bit different to our cousins in the east. Maybe better? But what makes us who we are?
It’s action off the racetrack that shows where the war for hearts and minds is at – and Sydney is a length or two in front
Glen Quartermain
Few meetings between an Australian prime minister and US president have been more hotly anticipated than this one.
Katina Curtis
How powerful accounts from two WA journalists reverberated across the globe.
It was not about chasing achievements or a burning ambition, but rather something simpler that drove him.
With just weeks remaining until the first American families arrive in WA ahead of the planned deployment of US nuclear submarines, concerns are growing about local preparations for the massive AUKUS endeavour.
Andrew Greene
A little-known pointer to a landmark moment walked past or over by probably thousands of people every day
Along with home-grown favourites, WA tables have been influenced by dishes and flavours brought from around the world
Australia marked a dramatic shift in its relationship with Iran for the first time in over seven decades when Anthony Albanese addressed a press conference on Tuesday.
Looking back, Graham, now 85, told Agenda that life at Smailes brought some challenges because of the isolation, but it was also a time of great freedom for children.
David Etherton, outgoing CEO of VenuesWest, has seen it all. But nothing prepared him for Gout Gout.
Long before Elizabeth Quay took shape to transform the river on the city’s doorstep, civic and political leaders have had ideas about what should be done
There was no shortage of ambition on display in 1896 when the time came to start work on the Perth Observatory.
Where the ground gets chewed up you go somewhere else.
They form a tangible link between the modern city of Perth and the early days of the Swan River Colony
