The West Live Podcast

On today's show, we discuss the latest developments in Gaza, the Cook Government’s bold plan to fix the housing crisis and why Australia has so many jacarandas.

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I think most of us agree, that if you do a fair day’s work, you deserve a fair day’s wage.

It’s a simple statement that has always underpinned the labour movement.

But the job market these days is very different to what unions were fighting for more than a hundred years ago.

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It’s time to cast our eyes over what’s shaping the news internationally. And, of course, at the moment, the world is very much focused on the escalating situation in Gaza.

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Perth is about to hit it’s annual purple patch… Yes, the weather is getting warmer and the city’s vast number of jacaranda trees will soon be in full bloom.

In suburbs like Applecross, jacarandas arch over the streets, forming cathedrals of purple… and becoming a magnet for the selfie crowd.

But have you ever stopped to wonder why we have so many jacarandas in the first place?

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Nicolas Cage has arrived Perth with his family as he gets ready to film psychological thriller ‘The Surfer’ in Margaret River.

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We know WA is facing a housing crisis with a supply shortage fuelling rental prices. Now the Cook Government has announced that a crack team of bureaucrats within the Treasury will be tasked with pulling out all the stops to boost that housing supply.

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The WA Government is taking the housing challenge seriously, by pulling together a new Housing Supply Unit.

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A car crash sent emergency services rushing to the scene after a Holden Ute rolled on Kwinana Freeway while travelling in Baldivis.

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A $40 million super yacht owned by mining magnate Clive Palmer has run aground off the coast of Singapore.

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Police confirmed that two people have been shot dead in the Belgian capital Brussels on Monday evening in what they are treating as an act of terrorism. 

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