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Sporting life can be so unfair
By Ross Lewis, Online Sports EditorFinally, we can scrub a couple of clichés from the coaches' little black book of sporting vocabulary.As the AFL revealed last week there is no such thing as a level playing ground, the conditions aren't the same for both teams and what goes...
Nov 6 1:32pm -
WA's Robinson an opener from the old school
By John Townsend, Cricket WriterWes Robinson's tough Sheffield Shield century at the SCG is a victory for every back yard cricketer who has ever dreamt of being plucked from obscurity to raise his bat on the big occasion.The left-hander has produced a tremendous victory for substance...
Nov 3 6:57pm -
Stuff it
By Belle TaylorStuff.There's just so much of it. And I, for one, want less of it. It started when I moved house about a year ago. I packed up all my stuff, stuffed it into a truck, unloaded it at my new flat and set about finding places in which to stuff all my stuff....
Nov 3 10:05am -
Is it time for an Internet Driver's License?
By Jason JordanThe internet hasn't been around very long. In fact it celebrated its 40th birthday on September 2. But in practical terms, the internet only began to hit the mainstream from the early 1990s via...
Nov 2 7:50pm -
AFL versus the World Cup, round 2
By Dennis ComettiIf you remember, I did threaten another column.Today I'm in Milan (this is worse than than having a slide night when I get back) and I'm wearing a Sporting Lisbon top.The best soccer news to come out of the weekend was Fulham's striking victory over...
Nov 2 6:23am -
Get ready for a flood of Jacko releases
By Simon CollinsThis Is It. Has there ever been a more misleading movie title?Michael Jackson's concert film is most certainly NOT it. Given the music industry's propensity for milking every last drop out of relatively meagre artists, we can expect a flood of releases...
Nov 1 8:11am -
Oil and gas industry must be more accountable
By Michael Hopkin, Environment ReporterPlace: the Timor Sea. Time: about nine weeks ago. The crew of the stricken West Atlas oil rig has been evacuated after the explosive onset of the oil spill that still continues to splosh at least 400 barrels a day into the water.Around 50 km to the...
Oct 30 2:49pm -
Tiff's Friday Timewasters: Spooky Edition
By Tiffany FoxIt’s Friday, and because it is Halloween tomorrow I thought we could look at all things creepy, spooky and altogether ooky.The first thing we have to learn when any ghouls knock on our doors tomorrow night demanding candy (not lollies – it...
Oct 30 1:46pm -
Time to hold the entertainment industry to account
By Paul MurrayThe outpouring of community concern over the violent attacks on young people in Perth's northern suburbs has made sad reading.Sad for two reasons. The first is the obvious damage that has been done from such mindless violence, much of which will affect...
Oct 28 3:56pm -
Flying in comfort an increasingly weighty matter
By Geoffrey Thomas, Aviation WriterIt's almost that time of year: flying away for a holiday on crammed planes with a whole lot of passengers who have possibly eaten far too much Christmas pudding - for years and years! Yes, it's the annual...
Oct 27 2:23pm -
The great weight debate
By Pip Christmass, Fashion EditorPlanet Fashion recently landed itself in hot water, re-igniting, as it does periodically, the debate about when skinny becomes too skinny.Firstly, a furore broke out over the extreme photoshopping of a Ralph Lauren model, Filippa Hamilton, for a...
Oct 26 5:10pm -
Another sad chapter in the Nanny State
By Gareth ParkerBritish public intellectual Charles Landry could not have been more correct in 2007 when he identified Perth as "the city that says no"....
Oct 23 10:39am -
What do you think of the emissions trading scheme?
By The Burning IssueAfter weeks of media coverage of the Rudd Government's proposed emissions trading scheme that viewed the issue through the prism of Malcolm Turnbull's leadership of the Liberal Party, all sides in the debate will now be forced into talking about the...
Oct 19 9:10pm -
The Government's plan to neuter councils
By Beatrice Thomas, Local Government ReporterIf Planning Minister John Day gets his way, pretty soon every new hotel, apartment complex, pub, restaurant or house worth more than $2 million (or $1 million in the country) in your neighbourhood will be built following approval from not the local...
Oct 15 9:46am
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