Perth’s occupiers are no longer occupying it. They voted on the matter yesterday. The model of participatory democracy they favoured held good until the bitter end, when someone put forward the motion, soon seconded, that the bitter end was what

By the time this article is published, I will be somewhere in Perth’s CBD, marching through the CHOGM security area and hoping I don’t get my teeth knocked in. I will have taken the train into the city. What with

About five kilometres from Perth’s CBD, as the F/A-18 Hornet flies, an earnest group of young people were gathering on the edge on the CHOGM security area. They had been told to meet at the roundabout on Bolton Avenue for

What strikes the visitor to Perth most forcefully, and most immediately, is its air of self-confidence. While politicians and commentators in the east like to play down the potential longevity of the west’s current mining boom — the better, one suspects, to