The number of teachers leaving Western Australian public schools has almost doubled since before the pandemic. Figures tabled last month in Parliament showed 1263 resignations last year, compared to 604 in 2019. www.lastplaceonearth.com.au/teachers-wil...
Covid proved our education system is broken â and teachers have been leaving ever since.
Very powerful essay by âŠâȘTim WintonâŹâ© âOur leaders are collaborators with fossil fuel colonialists. This is the source of our communal dreadâ #climatecrisiswww.theguardian.com/environment/...
The lassitude that distinguishes our moment is born of sorrow and buried rage. We act like colonial subjects because, in effect, thatâs what we are
someone trick netanyahu into defacing a picasso or whatever tf
With 2024 about to enter its final quarter, things are continuing the way theyâve been going: politics, entertainment and online meme culture are becoming increasingly intertwined, everything is getting weirder all the time, and yet beneath the frothy surface, it all seems basically the same...
Everything is weird. Has something got to give?
WA Premier Roger Cook says: "Our gas belongs to Western Australians ... I want to make sure we maximise the benefit to our State from our gas resources.â At the same time as announcing we're going to ship MORE of our gas for export? I'm sorry, what?
I sat in on proceedings for most of the day. As the court discussed contracts, precedents, and statutory powers, it was easy to forget what had led to this hearing in the first place: families broken up and First Nations people left homeless on their own country.
Two Western Australian social housing tenants have challenged no-grounds evictions in the Supreme Court.
Brilliant podcast calling out the oligarch influence on Western Australian and national politics. WA needs to wake the f up. @gerardmazza.bsky.social
With enemies at the gate, we bring you correspondence from the front lines of Seven West's war on nature laws.
My review of the pvi collectiveâs Social License Watchdog installation at the Art Gallery of Western Australia www.lastplaceonearth.com.au/can-art-furr...
Protest art probably wonât work as protest â so it better work as art.
The West Australian newspaper has appointed the first female editor in its history, current editor of Seven Westâs The Nightly Sarah-Jane Tasker, according to internal company communications seen by The Last Place on Earth.
Chris Dore becomes permanent editor-in-chief, appoints Sarah-Jane Tasker as editor.
It was a familiar courtroom environment: lawyers sat in rows under artificial lighting, lever arch files were piled up on the ground and in trolleys. As I listened, I sat near a mother who would never see her son again. There were still four children locked up in the adult prison where he'd died.
A coroner's inquest into the death in custody of an Aboriginal teenager has sparked calls for justice.