Perth / Western Australia

Why is the southwest WA so pagan? Its such an interestingly funny quirk down there.

From Bridgetown, Margaret River all the way to Denmark, Albany and Esperance theres this streak of interest in all this kind of stuff. :)

Didn't know the cables came through City Beach.

How can you allow your party to have a fallout like this when they are in such a weak position already? Its unbelievably poor leadership by S. Love, let alone being so immature as to bully colleagues in the parliament. Who the hell would want to vote for such a foolish behaviour.

Nationals should remove him as leader immediately. Cut the snake off at the head, deal with the many smaller heads that are bound to spring up quickly, before the WA election starts getting going.

Otherwise they're going into the election with proverbial 'cement for shoes'.

Below is the linked abstract in the article from PeerJ Analytical Chemistry.

Jarrah (Eucalyptus marginata) is a dominant forest tree endemic to the southwest of Western Australia. Its honey is appreciated for its highly desirable taste, golden colour, slow crystallisation, and high levels of bioactivity, which have placed Jarrah in the premium product range. However, whilst customers are willing to pay a high price for this natural product, there is currently no standard method for its authentication. As honey is naturally sourced from flower nectar, a novel route of authentication is to identify the nectar signature within the honey.

This study reports on a high-performance thin layer chromatography (HPTLC)-based authentication system which allows the tracing of six key marker compounds present in Jarrah flower nectar and Jarrah honey. Four of these markers have been confirmed to be epigallocatechin, lumichrome, taxifolin and o-anisic acid with two (Rf 0.22 and 0.41) still chemically unidentified. To assist with the characterisation of Jarrah honey, a range of physicochemical tests following Codex Alimentarius guidelines were carried out.

A blend of authenticated Jarrah honey samples was used to define the properties of this honey type. The blend was found to have a pH of 4.95, an electric conductivity of 1.31 mS/cm and a moisture content of 16.8%. Its water-insoluble content was 0.04%, its free acidity 19 milli-equivalents acid/kg and its diastase content 13.2 (DN). It also contains fructose (42.5%), glucose (20.8%), maltose (1.9%) and sucrose (<0.5%).

The HPTLC-based authentication system proposed in this study has been demonstrated to be a useful tool for identifying Jarrah honey and might also act as a template for the authentication of other honey types.

*Cite this as

Islam MK, Barbour E, Locher C. 2024. Authentication of Jarrah (Eucalyptus marginata) honey through its nectar signature and assessment of its typical physicochemical characteristics. PeerJ Analytical Chemistry 6:e33 https://doi.org/10.7717/peerj-achem.33*

Gona do a race around the casino? Maybe they can race around the entrance and call it 'Packers u-bend'. Really drive home the key beneficiary of this plan.

Of course.. i can't think of anywhere else around Perth you'd have it so maybe i should shut up :)

The Supercars.com article has a bit more to it, but heres the watoday article, https://www.watoday.com.au/politics/western-australia/perth-street-circuit-to-host-supercars-from-2026-20240616-p5jm5l.html

Somewhat surprising. I don't know if its the best use of the water, but its certainly creative.

Loctite company better watch out, clags comin in with the strong stuff!

Edit: string to strong

15 years already! Can't believe its been that long already.

Good set of pictures of the event at the end of the article.

They're big, brash and loud. But a beautiful sight to see when a group of ten or twenty flap about overhead, or squawk at each other as you walk underneath them.

Philanthropy is a 'lover of humanity', and is represented by the 3 T's (Time, Treasure, Talent) is the article in summary.

Aren't philanthropists meant to be arms length support for 'good causes' though? How does time and talent compute with that?

Dr Yin said 100,000 hectares of forest had been wiped out through prolonged drought and “heat-making ecological restoration” in the last six months.

Does anybody know what "heat making ecological restoration" means? Is this a fancy phrase for the firies doing burn-offs?

This is a read twice article for sure. Stoys a bit convoluted. I don't feel like the full story behind this business closure was really explored.

Hopefully Echo follow up with a couple more articles.

Whoever knew the art was so deep. Give me the beer, you can keep the sittin about on the beach.

By Kimberly Putland

Fun article about a historical mystery.

Yet another increase in cost of living.

Although the extra cost on that vacant land in Maylands is good, should hike that property by 200% hit them harder. Pretty sure its Coles who owns it, just ensuring woolies don't get their mits on it apparently.

Hello lovely Aussies! I am visiting your beautiful land for a month this summer. I apologize and please delete if this post is against the rules, but maybe you can point me in the right direction. I will be staying with family who have been there since last summer, but I'd love to hear tips about how best to enjoy your city and it's surroundings while I'm there!

> Jeremy has a fractured pelvis, back and hand, as well as two skin grafts on his back, a week after boarding a bus to visit his mum.

> He said the driver closed the door on his ankle, trapping one foot inside.

Jesus Christ that poor kid. This isn't just negligence, that's almost attempted murder

> At the intersection of Mandurah Road, the driver stopped, opened the door, and, according to witnesses, drove off.

Sooo no incident report? No ambulance? No police? Definitely intentional

No wind days really bring out the smog in us.

Note: Sorry for the potato quality of the photo.

For a refutation on the case for gas as an energy bridge,

https://www.climatetown.news/p/a-bridge-to-nowhere-us-natural-gas?utm_campaign=post&utm_medium=web

Article author, Owen Cumming

Good answer to the question of 'whats up with Perth's tides?' that I never realised I had.

Project: Electrify the Valley

Electrify the Valley Community Page https://www.electrifythevalley.org/home

(Note: I can't tell whether this is run by a commercial organisation or not. I don't think it is, but if someone see's something that indicates it is, let me know, and i'll rip this link off the post. Cheers)

Older article explaining a little more about White Gum Valley's plans: https://heraldonlinejournal.com/2023/11/03/valley-set-to-become-electric-community/

Peter Newman's experience: https://theconversation.com/profiles/peter-newman-1858

Peter Newman's case for Trackless Tram: https://theconversation.com/trackless-trams-v-light-rail-its-not-a-contest-both-can-improve-our-cities-125134

Bonus old Perth tram remnants: https://brendansodyssey.blogspot.com/2024/04/what-remains-of-perth-tram-network.html?m=1

Great guide to whats on this weekend, great work 'Perth is OK!'

I've been to a couple of Jerry Fraser's oyster shucking events, they're a bit of fun, he's a fun guy!

The Koi show looks pretty interesting, had no idea that was a thing! I also wish i had time for the 3 negroni lunch.

Good news story to start the day with!

An info pack from a couple months ago on this situation for those interested, https://aussie.zone/post/7556122

Hi all, in the past I've found it hard to find good WA specific news and information, so in the last few months I've gathered a few resources in the sidebar for community members to refer to for info about our drought stricken land (seriously, wheres the rain?). In case others find they have the same problem.

If anybody has suggestions you'd like for other WA online resources to add please tell me about them and I'll add them.

Or, if anybody has other comments about the sidebar, its use/content please share.

Hi! I just took a holiday to your lovely city and the surrounding suburbs and had a great time. My favorite part was probably visiting the Freo Markets. I saw this mural near the IGA car park building near the Markets, and thought I got a good photo of it, but as it would turn out to be, I didn't quite get all of it in there. If someone has a photo and could share, I would greatly appreciate it!

Here are the photos I got. Thank you so much, and mods if this is the wrong community for this let me know and I'll move on.

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I'm interested if anything was visible from the Perth metro area. Will it only show up in dark-sky places away from towns.

Can also post if you saw it anywhere else in WA too. Location, day and time etc.

Anybody up to anything this weekend?

https://www.watoday.com.au/politics/western-australia/your-five-minute-guide-to-wa-s-budget-winners-and-losers-20240507-p5fqhl.html

More cash for property owners to put vacant properties on the rental market, so they can have sky high rents as well.

I love Rit Saffioti's comment "Out of the box", please, this is very much in the box thinking. Boost owner class in the hope some might see fit to do what you want with their excess capital, meanwhile sell it as a great initiative to the renter class that is bound to help them.

If a cash splash is a must, then go find 1000 of the poorest renters in the state, and hand them $5000 cash, see charities like 'Give Directly'. It will do more good than this arse-scratchin policy.

In the distant future we as a society will surely look back on this idea we have of saving only the large fully grown trees for conservation value as a ridiculously naive way of managing this nation's flora.

There is no room in these plans we make for the growth of new trees. Sans human intervention of course.

Festival on 13-14th May

https://pintofscience.com.au/