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The good paddock Cubby lane 11 acre farm Perth Restaurant photographer by Valentine Girardot Perth Photographer 2025
14.5/20

One of WA’s most vital food stories is now even more compelling – and delicious

Goodbye Cubby Cafe, hello The Good Paddock: a smart-casual dining room offering an accessible take on farm-to-table dining and wining.

  • Max Veenhuyzen

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WA Housing Minister John Carey.

High-pitched noise used to deter rough sleepers under trouble-plagued Perth bridge

The Public Transport Authority said it had set up speakers that played a high-pitched noise 24/7 under the Lord Street overpass, 150 metres north-east of McIver train station.

  • Hamish Hastie
WA Treasurer Rita Saffioti; shadow treasurer Sandra Brewer; the new waterslide at the WACA. WAtoday index image. Pictures: Supplied

WACA pool to cost taxpayers $840k as Labor pins profit hope on waterslide cash splash

The facility will lose $840,000 in its first three years of operation.

  • Hamish Hastie
Perth’s Boorloo Bridge main picture WAtoday. Picture: WAtoday

This Perth bridge has been named among the nation’s best. So how will it fare in ‘the Oscars of engineering’?

Western Australia is a wonderland for the nation’s leading engineer – but there is one project that made her geek out.

  • Hamish Hastie
Housing Minister John Carey.

Minister branded a ‘communist’ in meeting with Perth public housing neighbours

John Carey met with groups of residents to discuss the state government’s plan to convert East Perth’s Fraser Suites tower and its 236 luxury apartments into affordable and social housing.

  • Hamish Hastie
John Carey social housing Perth WA main image. Picture: WAtoday

Has WA’s ‘one in every nine’ public housing policy been abandoned?

The policy aimed to evenly disperse public housing across the community to avoid the mistakes of previous governments who accidentally created ghettos by building ‘one-class’ apartment complexes.

  • Heather McNeill
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Queens Riverside residents after hearing the luxury hotel next door Fraser Suites would be converted to public housing.

Neighbours of former luxury East Perth hotel ‘blindsided’ by government’s purchase

The 19-storey tower comprises 236 luxury apartments and 11 commercial suites, all of which will now be converted into long-term social and affordable housing.

  • Hamish Hastie
Not every suburb is a smart buy in Perth says this buyer’s agent.

Boom or bust: The Perth suburbs agents will and won’t buy in

Perth’s housing market continues to break records, but it’s clear that the peak rate of price growth has passed, so where should buyers be looking for their next property?

  • Sarah Brookes
The station lights up once more.

Power grab: Takeover of derelict East Perth power plant electrifies Perth

The post-industrial chic of the long-shuttered East Perth Power Station’s enthralled music fans at the opening of the newest Perth Festival public space.

  • Mark Naglazas
Perth MP and Housing Minister John Carey, Premier Roger Cook and Education Minister Tony Buti at the site of the new East Perth Primary School on Monday.

One of Perth’s biggest car parks set to close later this year

Premier Roger Cook clarified the date of the car park’s closure after a confusing press conference at the site on Tuesday morning where Education Minister Tony Buti initially suggested the entire car park would be closed by the end of the week. 

  • Hamish Hastie