At the National Aboriginal Press Club, leaders from industry and government, together with native title holders, convened to discuss the future of WA’s mining and energy sector.

LANDLORDS returning to WA from interstate are adding further pressure to Perth’s housing crisis, with competition driving rental prices up, and low-income renters out.

FIFTY SIX sleeping bags laid out on the front steps of WA’s Parliament on Tuesday laid bare the grim toll of WA’s housing crisis during an evening vigil to its latest casualty, Alana Garlett.

The family of Alana Garlett are calling for a vigil at Parliament House to raise awareness of her death, and the 56 other homeless people who died on Perth’s streets last year.

Noongar mother, Alana Garlett, was the most recent homeless person to die on Perth’s streets, after new data revealed 56 homeless citizens were lost last year. 

FREMANTLE LIBRARY has won a state award for a program linking vulnerable users with support services.

The McGowan Government says it’s committed to ensuring women seeking an abortion can have safe and private access to health services without fear of harassment or intimidation.

Perth advocates are concerned refugees could face indefinite detainment via new legislation pushed through Federal parliament last week.

An electors’ vote to change the City of Stirling’s name because it is insulting to Indigenous people has sparked conflicting discourse in the community, but mayor Mark Irwin said a name change would take years to implement anyway.

WA’s lockdown rules privilege crowds for footy games, but force women into traumatising birthing circumstances, say advocates.

A PERTH hotel housing campers from Fremantle’s dismantled Tent City, is forced to kick out its 15 remaining homeless clients, with a $40,000 bill no one will pay.

A Perth hotel has been left with an outstanding $30,000 bill after government said its unwilling to take responsibility for 11 homeless people who ended up in the hotel’s rooms.

About 2,000 people gathered in Forest Place on January 26 in support of changing the date of Australia Day – the biggest WA rally to date.

The charred remains of Tent City in East Perth are now almost completely uninhabited.

In, what residents suspect was an arson attack, Tent City in East Perth goes up in flames, turning the fenced-in campsite into a potential death trap.

The Department of Communities forks out $3.8 million for folks in Tent City in Perth’s CBD, but not the rough sleepers on their Freo doorstep, facing the toughest time of year.