The lead-up to Christmas is frantic.
David Koch
I’ve had an interesting lead-up to Christmas. I’m starting to wonder if I should give it a miss this year: whether Father Christmas is trying to send me a message that I should sit this one out.
Joe Spagnolo
As we count down to 2025, it’s again time to recognise those who made unique (and often crooked) contributions to the world of money this year.
Noel Whittaker
As Christmas approaches, visions of backyard barbecues, beach badminton and bubbly brews fill the minds of many.
Gary Martin
There’s a lot to love about Melbourne. But if the WA Government is looking across the country at Victoria right now, I can only hope it’s admiring Melbourne’s cracking light rail system and not these new laws.
Kate Emery
The property spruiker antidote has been revealed.
Ben Harvey
As we career towards Christmas with all of the control of me riding a bike after a couple of glasses of rosé, can we spare a thought for the real heroes of the season?
Nat Locke
One doubts whatever it is, could be any worse than the mental images your Aunt is currently harbouring.
Jay Hanna
With the mercury forecast to hit 38C on Saturday and pass the 40C mark on Sunday and Monday, West Australians shouldn’t need a reminder that summers in our State can be brutal.
Editorial
One of president-elect Donald Trump’s controversial initiatives is the creation of the Department of Government Efficiency to reduce US government expenditure and improve efficiency.
Raymond Da Silva Rosa
Is it possible that in our election, Labor’s advantage among women fades to some degree, reduced by more general cost-of-living concerns?
Michelle Grattan
The Government is going nuclear over the Coalition’s energy plans, and its inability to take off the renewable blinkers bodes ill for our future.
Paul Murray
There is always a lot of attention drawn to resolutions, but I wonder if we spend enough time reflecting on the year that has already been.
Justin Langer
WA Liberal leader Libby Mettam has made good on her promise to visit the Great Southern before the end of the year, meeting residents in Mt Barker and Albany this week with Albany candidate Thomas Brough.
Melissa Sheil
This Christmas will be reminder to many West Australians families of what they have lost this year.
Out of the 4000 awards recognising individual excellence in ATAR and vocational courses announced this week, girls picked up nearly 60 per cent.
Bethany Hiatt
I’ve crowned the very best and the worst from throughout this year.
As Christmas approaches, it’s a time for families, communities, and indeed the entire State to come together, to reflect on the year gone and to look to the future.
Libby Mettam
On January 1 we will finally see how many residential homes have been flipped into commercial short stay accommodation through online platforms such as Airbnb.
Evan Hall
Advocates say that using language may dissuade men from coming forward or calling each other out. We need to call these people what they are.
As Rick Morton recently reminded me: ‘There is still beauty in the world for those who have eyes for it’, and kids certainly have the eyes for it at Christmas. The older ones just need some help focusing.
Kelsie Prabawa-Sear
Peter Dutton and key shadow ministers give the distinct impression they are not across details of their own policies, despite making it a key point of attack on Anthony Albanese.
Katina Curtis
Here’s why Gina Rinehart should just buy Melbourne.
Just as Howard’s battlers were won over by the introduction of first home buyers grants in the late 90s, the same cohort will be rushing to polling booth.
Kim Macdonald
