CENTRELINK legislation is in drastic need of reform The Social Security Act and Social Security (Amendments) Act each contain over 1000 sections, most of which are designed to deny people […]

PADDY CULLEN is coordinator of Save the Black Cockatoos I WAS walking in a bit of Cockburn Wildlife Corridor bush in Hami Hill recently, with giant Tuart Trees and Banksia […]

SHEILA ROBBSHAW is a Leeming resident and in her own words, a “cantankerous old bat who likes to sound off about things”. THERE is a lovely story about an English […]

HERE’S part 2 of DAVID BUTTERFIELD’S recollections about his life as a ‘Nasho’, one of the 63,735 young Australian men called up for mandatory national service. In this installment, he’s […]

EDWARD BOUVERIE has lived in Fremantle since 1987.  I ATTENDED the special  electors meeting on November 14. I congratulate mayor Hannah Fitzhardinge for her humour, tolerance and patience in chairing […]

DAVID BUTTERFIELD was conscripted as an infantry gunner when he was called up for National Service in 1966. In this week’s THINKING ALLOWED he recalls what that time was like, […]

COLIN NICHOL wrote earlier in the Herald about public toilets at Walyalup Centre (“The Pearl in the Oyster,” Thinking Allowed, December 25, 2021) and now, after witnessing unsettling scenes in […]

JEREMY DAWKINS is one of Australia’s most distinguished urban planners; a former chair of the WA Planning Commission, he’s taught in a swag of Australian universities and sat on dozens […]

BOB REECE is a veteran historian and writer whose wide interests have involved him in the history of Aboriginal-white relations, the Irish in Australia, and Borneo. Arriving with his wife […]

ROY LEWISSON is a White Gum Valley resident who played a big part in changing Main Roads’ thinking on the High Street upgrade. In this week’s Thinking Allowed he takes […]