Features

Younger gen’ says Y wait?
by Lydia Monka

EVA LAW is a typical member of Generation Y- ambitious, confident and materialistic.

Confessions of a Perth gang member
by N. Rahimi Razmi

MODERN infrastructure surrounding the sprawling urban landscape, streets that seem safe from crime, courteous people of different races, creeds and religions, that is a popular view of cosmopolitan Perth.....full story

WA foster mum a winner
by Meagan Brady

A FOSTER mother has taken out this year’s Barnardos Mother of the Year award for WA.....full story

Inside Undercover
by Larissa Chatwin

It was a case of the devil in the detail for this photo, which appeared on page four of The Sunday Times on May 4.....full story

Mother’s Day boon for businesses
by Lydia Ng

BREAKFAST in bed and flowers traditionally made for an appreciative gesture on Mother’s Day, but this year people are splurging on the annual celebration.....full story

McGinty explains his side of West feud
by Lydia Monka

WA Health Minister and Attorney-General Jim McGinty visited Murdoch University on April 29 to deliver a lecture on the good, the bad, and the uglier aspects of media ethics and responsibilities.....full story

Mind the step ... and your manners
by Lydia Monka

TRANSPERTH will be enforcing a ‘loss of privileges’ policy for school students who refuse to stand up for other people on Perth’s public buses and trains.....full story

Dawn sheds light on Anzacs
by Jason Della

DAWN. A time most would rather be sleeping while the 10 degree morning warms with the rising sun, but come Anzac Day the people of Perth are out in record numbers.....full story

If a tree falls on a Festiva, does anybody care?
by Enrico Ventura

I GUESS the everyday Perth motorist drives to work with negligible thoughts of not driving home at all.....full story

Designer wear for an average-sized booty
by Crystal Wieringa

ON April 17, Target stores across Australia launched their first line of designer lingerie, amid shopper concerns the intimate apparel would not fit the average woman.....full story

Pray for the Osprey
by Enrico Ventura

REAL estate development in Mandurah Quays is threatening the existence of osprey birds after elaborate efforts were made to protect them two years ago.....full story

Sidestepping Perth's cultural brain drain
by Stephanie Vanicek

TWO interstate dance students at the WA Academy of Performing Arts are helping to reverse Perth's cultural brain drain.....full story

KKK defector preaches tolerance to Perth school kids
by Kirsty Duncan

ON the 40th anniversary of Martin Luther King Jr's death, a former Ku Klux Klan leader told a group of private school kids racism was not the answer.....full story

Kids mix with authors at Lit Fest '08
by Urszula Dawkins

FORMER WA Premier Carmen Lawrence, and Singaporean children's writer Shamini Flint, were two of 30 authors who appeared on April 2-4 at a major children's literary festival in Perth's southern suburbs.....full story

Fat Cat clobber hails from O'Connor
by Kema Rajandran

HAVE you ever wondered where Fat Cat, Eagle Boy or Johnny Docker get their outfits from? Well look no further than Character Creations, an O'Connor-based business specialising in costumes and promotional mascots.....full story