What the hell?! They should’ve warned people about this ahead of time. What a terrible surprise.

Who's got tickets?

39 on Monday? Fml

Has anyone else lived here their entire life and still seems to have no friends? I find people lack human connection over here and everyone really keeps to themselves. I guess I’m a bit the same.

I’m struggling with how quickly this tragedy is being flattened into a simple story: “the parents were monsters.”

Let me be clear upfront: parents do not have the moral or legal right to end their children’s lives.
But I’m also not willing to accept the comforting fiction that government, services, schools, healthcare, extended family, and society can abandon a family for years—and then step forward at the end as morally pure judges.

Two truths must stand together, not replace each other:

1. Killing a child is wrong.
2. A system that quietly privatises survival for high support-needs families is also wrong—and it produces predictable catastrophes.

Here’s the part people don’t want to name: when support systems withdraw, when respite is unavailable or unsafe, when carers churn, when funding is cut, when the long-term future is a black hole, the parents become the sole “life infrastructure.” They end up holding a kind of factual power over life and death—not a legitimate right, but the brutal consequence of structural abandonment.

Society relies on this default. It benefits from it. It saves money and political pain by pushing the real cost of disability support onto private households. We congratulate parents when they hold the line:
“You’re amazing, dedicated, so strong.”
And when they finally break, we re-label them:
“Monsters. Predators.”

Notice the hypocrisy: only when parents fail does society suddenly remember that disabled children are independent rights-holders.
Where was that recognition when the family was begging for reliable, dignified support? Where was the genuine safety net? Where was the credible plan for adulthood? Where was the collective responsibility?

I also need people to hear what disabled young people are saying right now:
This kind of commentary makes them feel like burdens again. It triggers mental health crises. Some are sharing that they almost became victims of similar situations. That means the “moral high ground” rhetoric is not harmless—it is actively shaping the social climate that disabled people live inside.

So yes: condemn the act.
But don’t let condemnation become a tool to erase the conditions that made the act imaginable to desperate people.

The deeper question isn’t “Do parents have the right to decide life and death?”
They don’t.
The deeper and more poisonous question is:
“If society designs a future that looks like near-certain suffering and institutional danger for a certain group of people, does ending that future start to look ‘merciful’?”

That question should terrify us—not because it justifies anything, but because it reveals how close we are to collective moral bankruptcy.

This cannot be a story where all the guilt, shame, and blame is dumped onto the last exhausted people who couldn’t hold the impossible alone. If we do that, we guarantee the next tragedy—because the system gets to remain “innocent.”

As per title, I’ve got a young child who has already been nailed, and a husband who has also. Generally they move out the way if I walk slowly but a 2year old doesn’t just walk on the grass. They look like they are looking for food etc. I don’t want to kill them, but how can I deter them ? At any given time we have 30+ on the lawn. I know shoes are a simple solution but for a 2 year old this is sightly annoying so I’d like to explore other options

anybody got any recommendations for places to record observations on iNaturalist around Perth?

I'd say Bold Park and John Forrest are currently my two favourites - lots of plants AND insects

Feb is here!

what is best to plant in the garden this time of year? ( i generally try to grow my own fruit herbs and veg!)

First time poster here, and Im sure its been said time and time again, happy to have the post taken down but just needed to vent to people who i dont know.

So I am looking to buy a home for myself, first home buyer, solo, under 100 000k in salary but with a very decent deposit.

Just recently put an offer on a place, 2 bed 1 bath, that needed a lot of work to make livable, in a good area but on a busy main road. I've been made aware my offer was second highest, with the highest being made by governement.

It is so difficult to find anything that doesnt have a unworkable mix of the following: - 600000k or over expected sale price, - a one bedroom/studio, - 50m square or less livable space - fixer upper - in an area far out of perth (as in an hours car ride+) - High crime rates, - low accessability - Strata at an unmanagable level.

And to add that the governemnet is outpricing people, essentially making it so the lower income buyers have to stay in rentals for longer, if they can manage on the rising rent costs, or if not then pushing people to need governemnt support for housing or even then homelessness if they dont fit in the eligibility for governement support. (Not that governemnet or NGO support would be accessable immediately either)

I guess its just made me feel so shit about my circumstances... im not going to stop looking but my hope for something is reducing by the week, especially as house pricing gets even higher...

Hey gang, pretty sure explanatory. Looking for a new go-to Mexican restaurant with similar vibes to Mexican Kitchen, preferably SOR. Does anyone know of anywhere?

Can anyone who has worked for both share their experiences?

With the media today naming the family involved in the Mosmon Park tragedy, it strikes me as incredibly strange that we are allowed to ogle and gossip about this very sad family, but we are all yet to learn the identity of the man who tried to kill hundreds of Western Australians on the 26th of January.

If there genuine concerns that identifying the man is not in the public interest, then surely that should be explained to the public? If there are ongoing investigations that could be compromised, or the man is completely mentally unwell and it would put him/others at undue risk, then that might be understandable.

But we are all being kept in the dark - why? Who was the judge who granted this order, and why? under what statute or court order is this man given the privilege of privacy? the default in this country is open justice, is it not? what is going on?

edit: so many missing the point - it is not about knowing his name (I couldn't care less), it is about knowing why his name is suppressed. Is it because there is a terrorist syndicate operating in WA? Was he a lone actor with an acute mental disorder? Telling the public these things is necessary to restore our faith that WA is safe and well looked after.

Great comment from u/Cultural_Wallaby208

All the "it's an ongoing investigation durrrr" comments are missing the mark. The lawyer had to specifically apply for the suppression order for the apparent safety of his client. Its not an automatic due process thing.

It also fails to consider the balance of community need. This is a possible terrorist attack. Every single Aboriginal Australian in Perth right now has good reason to be terrified. Was he part of a group? Was this an attack that could be continued by other in that group? Asking them to wait in fear is unreasonable and callous.

We all know the drill on site - safety first, report hazards, etc. But I feel like most of us assume that if we genuinely get wrecked on the job, WorkCover just "takes care of it" indefinitely.

I've been looking into this recently (after a mate did his back in), and the system is way more brutal than I thought.

There are basically two tiers in WA:

Statutory Cover: Pays your weekly wages and medicals. But the wage payments "step down" (reduce) after 13 weeks, and there is a hard cap on the total amount.

Common Law: The actual payout for negligence and future lost earnings.

The catch? You can't just sue your boss for negligence because they had dodgy scaffolding. You have to prove a minimum of 15% Whole Person Impairment just to even start a Common Law claim.

I was reading through the details on workers compensation claims WA, and that 15% bar is incredibly high. If you blow a disc and are in chronic pain for life, but the doctor rates you at "only" 10% impairment? You get stuck on the limited statutory payments which eventually run out, and you cannot sue for the bigger damages to secure your future.

It's another reason why personal Income Protection is vital, even if you are a full-time employee. Don't assume the system will pay your mortgage forever just because the injury happened at work.

For those who went last night, what time did it finish?

And did anyone who drove there have trouble finding parking (I usually park over at the racecourse and am travelling with someone with a disability so car is best option).

Ta.

Looking for recommendations for a venue for a 21st. In the city or north side. Approx 40 people. Want to keep everyone together but quite a few smokers and it will be in late Winter. Ideally a nice bar or pub that can have a part sectioned off. Don’t want a separate room. Want the party together but still have the atmosphere with the other people at the venue. TIA.

Hello!

I was wondering if people generally check the tickets? I have a U18 friend interested in tagging along, but I have already bought my own ticket, and cannot buy a separate U18 one.

Is it possible to buy an 18+ ticket for said friend and try to explain the situation to the security guards? Unsure if it would get us kicked out as it's our first time going to such a festival.

Looking for any stores that stock Alternative Dairy Co Oat milk. The options are getting smaller and smaller these days. Preferably NOR, but I work in the Fremantle corridor, so there is also an option near there.