The West Live Podcast

A new study has found workers are increasingly ditching the work from home trend that took off during the pandemic, and spending more time back in the office.

That’s probably good news for employers, because the same study found 42% of Australian employers want workers to return to the office for a particular number of days each week.

But as our time in the office is going up, something else is too - stress.

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The Netflix Documentary series about soccer legend David Beckham is a global ratings smash but as well as giving us insights into his phenomenal career and status as a pop culture icon it told us something else about the role parents play in sport.

To unpack that aspect is lecturer in clinical exercise and research fellow at Victoria University in Melbourne Dr Mary Woessner.

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Nestlé says it is closing a baby milk factory in Ireland because a falling Chinese birth rate has reduced demand for the product.

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Skeletons of the largest marsupials that lived are being unearthed near an iron ore mine in Western Australia’s north, shedding light on the state's rich natural history. 

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It was a blink and you’ll miss him visit, but US President Joe Biden landed in Tel Aviv, and has already left Israel but he was there long enough to back Israel's account of that deadly Gaza hospital explosion.

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Nikita Piil has just days to decide whether her pet rottweiler, who viciously mauled her, will be euthanised as the council reveals the findings of their investigation into the bloodied attack.

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A mother has faced court accused of stabbing her teenage daughter’s boyfriend with a kitchen knife after she caught the two having sex.

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Police are hunting a possible gunman after a dramatic incident unfolded in Perth’s Swan Valley region on Wednesday morning.

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A  woman has been hit by a Transperth bus on Wellington street in the city.

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It’s the most wonderful time of the year… No, not Christmas… I’m talking about Telethon… The world’s greatest charity event, that has raised more than half a billion dollars in WA for sick and disadvantaged kids, since it was established way back in 1968.

Last year, the event raised a staggering 71.4 million dollars and this weekend it’s back to try and do even better… with your help, of course.

Among the galaxy of stars set to appear at Telethon this year, is one of our favourites here at the West Live Bunbury’s greatest export and co-Host of Channel 7’s Sunrise the one and only Natt Barr.

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