WA's residential renters have been given reprieve on the cost of rentals but what about retailers?

On Perth Tonight Chris spoke to Barry Urquhart from Marketing Focus about the future of small business.

Mr Urquhart told Chris that "in a lot of circumstances unfortunately the retailers are really the meat in the sandwhich because they're being squeezed between lower prices, higher competition  and static if not increasing rent and more importantly utility prices".

We often hear about people who've suddenly come into money, loosing it as quickly as they gain it.

On Perth Tonight Chris asked Kerry Boulton, CEO of The Exit Strategy Group, why it's so common for new millionaires to mismanage their wealth and what they should be doing.

A high tech antenna in central Western Australia is helping American scientists piece together information from the time the first stars formed.

Travelling country vet Rick Fenny has spent nearly 50 years tending to animals

across Western Australia and now he'll be treating animals around the globe...

Will we soon see police using facial recognition glasses?

Each fortnight publisher Alexandra Tselios keeps you updated with the latest from The Big Smoke.

This weeks she spoke to Chris about why reports of drinking being linked to longevity may be inaccurate, an online game which may inoculate against 'fake' news, why tinder spiked 400 per cent and whether business cards are a faux pas.

A cyclist who does not want to wait until 2021 for the State Government to pay for the construction of a bike path is taking matters into his own hands. 

Michael Thomas 29, is running as an independent in the Cottesloe by-election in the hopes of filling the gap between the Perth-Fremantle pricipal shared path (PSP). 

The path abruptly stops at Grant Street station and does not start for 5km at Tydeman Road Fremantle, leaving cyclist and pedestrians exposed to kilometres of heavy traffic.

Mr Thomas told Chris "the electorate of Cottesloe, after Perth City has the highest number of bike crashes per kilometre of road".

Musician Jamie "Slim Jim" Mercanti and journalist and lecturer at Edith Cowan University, Tiffany Fox joined Chris for Thursday Panel this week.

They talked overtaking laws, texting whilst driving, cyclists and much more.

We hear morale at the City of Perth is at an all time low so Chris enlisted the help of a Business Abilities and Leadership Performance Coach to offer the council some advice. 

Partner at Quinn Emanuel, Damian Scattini is one of the lawyers behind the class actions in Australia against car manufacturers who've sold cars with defective Takata airbags.

Mr Scattini told Chris on Perth Tonight that it was one of the biggest cases he'd seen.

"I'm not aware of another case like it," Mr Scattini said.

"All of your listeners would know someone who's got one of these cars with what is pretty much a hand grenade in the dashboard or in the steering wheel and it's just completely unacceptable and shocking that we've gotten to this point," he said.

"The core problem is that they chose a cheaper material-ammonium nitrate as a propellant and...It's an unstable compound... they chose to use it because it was cheaper."

On Perth Tonight Chris spoke to Kelly Boulter, a victim of notorious conman Goran Markovic, about the devastation this criminal has left in his wake.