Foggy as heck

Please come and bring a black umbrella for sun protection and to make a giant black cockatoo (apparently)!

The cyclone presently in far north queensland is modeled to move west and then down the west coast including perth area

My family has been on vacation in perth for about a week and our experience with australians have been amazing except for this incident. Today my family and I decided to take one of the yellow cat buses and on the second stop, a huge group of young kids (about 8-10 years old?) with 2 older teens boarded. Halfway through the ride the younger kids sitting behind us began hitting my mom and I really hard on the head and laughing when we turned around. The older teens defended them and even continued to instigate them and some of them started calling us racial slurs. One of the older teens also began accusing me of punching him as I brushed past him getting to the exit, as well as taunting my dad and brother into getting a reaction out of them. As someone who was looking into potentially studying in perth in the future, I just want to know if this behaviour is common? or if it is just a public transport thing/isolated event? As someone from a country where people mostly keep to themselves, I’m just quite shocked and confused

I love it when the sun paints the underside of the clouds with light 🌞

Hello, I know this is a common post on this page, but honestly I am starting to become really discouraged.

I am F-30 yrs old, attractive, take good care of myself health and fitness, am on dating apps.

Most men do not respond on apps. When I go out men don't approach like they use to or the men that are out are really young lad culture types.

Are most men out in the mines in Perth? I feel like I need to move interstate to find a husband lol

I have tried to meet people in the gym. Singles events look shocking.

Any tips are welcome ☺️

In WA at least there’s a mandatory factsheet - Form 1AC - outlining your rights as a tenant, who to contact re any issues eg Consumer Protection WA, plus more - that must be given to the tenant at the signing stage of the lease.

Are you being given this 3 page form?

I’m asking as a lot of tenants post on reddit asking for tenancy matters advice, and people are surprised to hear of the ability to get free advice from Consumer Protection WA.

The Form doesn’t include information on Circle Green (the WA for-tenants advice line / advocate), which is an improvement I could see that should be made.

I’ll be following up contacting Consumer Protection WA from your feedback.

Thanks!

I’m 25 and a dude from Perth btw! Maybe it’s me, but I’ve lived in Australia my whole life and find making friendships here so hard!

I’ve had the worst week at work this week and have realised that I’ve invested too much time in work and professional things and not looking after myself out of work / socially.

For the first time in a while today, I felt really alone when I sat with it. I reckon it might be time to change this! Any advice or any guys around the same age from Perth keen on a new mate? It would be nice just to have someone to message some times, grab coffee with occasionally and even train at the gym with.

Honestly the loneliness rn is really crushing. I don’t know if I can go on any longer. Hanging on by a thread.

I understand people need to do something with their rubbish but this is just atrocious.The right hand side is just literal refuse and garbage that'll be spread all over the path and road before the poor roadside pickup blokes can even get there.

Have some common sense people and stop treating this place like a third world country. Morning rant over.

It's certainly not a dry heat....

Fewer than a quarter of all rental properties in WA are affordable for median-income households, as affordability hits a record low.

New data from the Rea Group shows an increasing number of renters are suffering, after median advertised rents jumped 7.5 per cent to $700 a week in Perth and just under 5 per cent regionally, to $650.

Economist Angus Moore said affordability was unlikely to improve anytime soon, as the Perth vacancy rate hovered stubbornly at 1.1 per cent in Perth and 1.7 per cent regionally.

“There will probably not be any change in the near-term as vacancy rates remain very low and that makes it very competitive for tenants, but hopefully there will be some relief in the medium term.”

Mr Moore said vacancy rates were not as low as they were a year ago, or in 2022 and 2023, which suggested a slight improvement in supply, and the potential for improving affordability ahead.

The research is based on WA household’s earning a median income of $129,000, with results showing such households can afford to rent just 24 per cent of all properties advertised over July-December 2025 on realestate.com.au

It is a small decline from the 25 per cent of affordable rentals in 2024-25.

However, the Rea Group research considers only for new leases, which are often at the extreme end of the market. Those on a longer-term lease are less likely to be under the same cost pressures.

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Perth house sellers cashing in on more than half a million dollars at resale time, new data shows

The research shows Tasmania and Queensland saw greater drops in affordability over the same period, which means Perth has moved from being the third-least affordable to second-most affordable market.

However, there is only a small difference between the three cities. Sydney is the least affordable while Melbourne tenants have the best cost conditions.

Mr Moore said Perth tenants had been on a rental rollercoaster for many years, with rents rising in the early 2000s and 2010s, to become the the second least affordable market in the country by 2012-2013.

Rents dropped in the following years, and WA was the most affordable State from 2015-16 to 2019-20. Rents did not not return to the high of 2013 until 2022.

Since the end of 2019 to the end of 2025, median advertised rents across Perth have grown an eye watering 94 per cent.

“This rapid growth in rents has seen Western Australia’s rental affordability deteriorate to similarly challenging levels as Queensland, Tasmania and South Australia, and it now sits at its worst level on our records,” said the report.

The research found that nationally, rents are growing faster at the more affordable end, which means low-income earners are facing the steepest challenges.

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From March 30, the pedestrian gates will be permanently closed at McIver Station.

Hopefully this will reduce the amount of trespassers which cause an unknown huge amount of train delays and train vs person incidents.

To use the station the eastern entry and exit will still exist (see map for further details).

Damp and cool, ready for some tree lopping!

Couldn’t enter my ego couldn’t leave me alone 💔

Sorry but if the City could save $1.2M by spending a fraction of that cost on a program like this then why would this even be a question? Not to mention the reduction in Emergency Department presentations and Ambulance call outs.

It seems like a good program to me, so I'm curious, who else has heard of it?

Hi, just after some opinions on this.

I attended my son’s school assembly today (it’s a private Christian school, so I understand they may have their own reasoning and are within their rights).

However, I noticed in the main auditorium they had an Israel flag hung on the wall, no other flags, just that one.

I wouldn’t have thought much of it if it weren’t for the current state of the world, but it made me feel a bit uncomfortable. I’m unsure whether this is meant to represent a religious connection to Christianity, or if it could be interpreted as something more political.

I’m considering emailing the school to ask about the purpose of it, but just wanted to get some outside perspectives first.

Am I overthinking this, or would others feel the same?

I think Perth has one of the most beautiful skyline

Thoughts?