Its a fine example of Perth grand tradition of sprawl.

Pack you’re bags cockatoos you’re apparently all moving down to Williams.

Wow, those engines look a bit Star Warsy.

Pretty sure my left butt cheek weighs more than that plane.

How’re the cars? The insurance companies must be crappin themselves.

Yeah, lack of viable options due to budgetary constraints is definitely a chunky segment for sure, but by no means doesn’t make the whole.

A couple examples of indicative behaviour are,

Joondalup city having to rip out paved curbs areas that residents laid for extra parking instead keeping or planting foliage.

WA Today, Feb 5th 2017.

Or Seville Grove having public trees ripped out by residents of the area the trees were planted in,

ABC, Mar 15, 2024

Theres just a sizeable segment of our population that don’t appreciate the natural environment in any meaningful way. It does ourselves a disservice to ignore this cohort, because they present a different sort of obstacle to effective climate action at a local level.

Like the article speaks to, the developers are pushing on an open door with their customers/residents when it comes to no trees.

Theres a ‘language?/mode of communication?’ these people are speaking back and forth, from resident to developer, that i don’t hear, or if i do, i’m not understanding. Its irrational, but many are actively opting for housing like this.

I’m so interested to see the results from this QLD election. The Katter-abortion issue i’ve really seen as analogous to the USA’s much talked about ‘October Surprise’.

I’ve only ever noticed it with international travel, but haven’t done that in a while so things could’ve changed in that situation as well.

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Moderator from !perth@aussie.zone here.

Just been playing around using the spoiler tags as makeshift drop down lists in the sidebar for the Perth/WesternAustralia community, and noticed the ‘spoiler’ markdown formatting isn’t recognised in the ‘about’ page on the Sync app. :)

In light of another post on the community, i’m questioning myself.

Am I falling for some populist drivel here, or is this an actual problem being highlighted?

Populist rhetoric for bored politicians who should be concentrating on the pressing issues in their portfolios, not passing inane comment on the collections of the State’s posterity focused institutions.

First thing a WA liberal has come out on in about a decade that i agree with.

Damn right it is. I’m not sure i blame anybody, seems its just a general lack of fucks given, with inspiring and notable exceptions.

A Liberal tack to the climate could be a real vote winner here, but they’ll of course lose mining money so thats no chance.

November 9.

Oh my god, haha, my bad!

Gawd this is depressing.

The good thing is, these birds have a large cross section of the community who love them, so hopefully barriers to action for planting 2 million more banksias will be minimal.

Sounds like a joint venture for Perth Zoo, Trillion trees, and Kaarakin.

Question is, who can fund this? Minderoo maybe?

Simple, apply the toll roads business model… /s

“Fremantle continues to maintain a colonial appearance that is uninviting” he said.

Joe Collard.

Each to their own, but i like Fremantle’s appearance. I think its one of the most visually appealing suburbs in WA.

What we need straight away is a widespread information campaign about how the public can act to stop/limit the borer’s spread.

so why not?

Did you mean, why not criminalise them?

If so, because theres lots of experiential evidence that it doesn’t work to change criminal behaviour, and as drag alludes to, plenty of evidence now that the criminalised children are locked into a cycle of crime throughout their life.

Their life of crime becomes a cost to you and I, and all those who are victims of their shit behaviour, as well as the State. Its a cost i’d rather pay once through proven crime prevention pathways.

And the above only considers their direct impacts on people personally not even to consider the moral, humanist, or economically efficient use of a nations resources as elements here.

• Wheres the CLP’s case that a policy like this is going to work this time?

• What are their targets for acheiving the change?

• If those targets aren’t met and peoples cars are still getting stolen, or worse, will they own their policy mistakes, or will they blithely double down on this flawed and absolutist policy?