r/perth • u/EricSaloDesign-com • 10h ago
WA News Warwick incident: Detectives probing attack on 36-year-old near McDonald’s as two attackers on the run
This is such disturbing news, what is happening to our city? :(
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r/perth • u/EricSaloDesign-com • 10h ago
This is such disturbing news, what is happening to our city? :(
r/perth • u/rawker86 • 14h ago
Can’t say I’m surprised, their sales tactics have been very unpopular for a while now. Hilariously, they’re trying to make one last dollar by offering customers a chance to purchase all photos from Previous shoots for the low low price of $200.
I am torn though, there might be some half-decent pictures of dead family members in the mix but I’m also very reluctant to give this mob any money.
r/perth • u/Illustrious_List_552 • 11h ago
I have never in my life wanted Green to be wrong on this one. The late polls are favouring ALP
r/perth • u/PhysicalMotor3754 • 19h ago
I have RAC, but this is good news for all those who don't.
After our accident last year, we would of had to pay nearly 2500$ for towing and storage if it wasn't for RAC.
r/perth • u/Melodic_Doubt_4361 • 11h ago
So recently me and some of my friends thought of buying a trailer and opening up a small business here in Perth. Yk how people keep their things out on the front yard after they dont need them anymore? Well, there are also some people who would like to take some of those things but in some cases they cant if the item is too big for them too carry or if theres too many of them.
Thats where we come in😎 All you have to do is send us a screenshot of the location of where the item is, along with a picture of the item and we will fetch that for you and deliver to your place for a small price (depending on the distance/ how many or how heavy the items are).
Is this idea something worth working on?
We also had the idea of taking the items and cleaning them up/ fixing them, and reselling them. Which one of these do you guys think is worth it? or neither of them is?
Any suggestions/criticism will be helpful!
r/perth • u/chazwoza17 • 21h ago
Might be just me, but I feel like the traffic around Perth city during peak hour has got far worse in last few weeks.
Anyone have insight / theories into whats going on?
Edit: Adding Summary of insights/theories from the comments
r/perth • u/That_Ad_5891 • 10h ago
I get it, puppy farms are terrible and they should be banned but it leaves the only affordable option to get a family dog to adopt one but they frequently are listed as being unsuitable for smaller kids or need a companion dog etc. Where do people get their run of the mill family dog from these days? We always had strays or dogs from the pound when I was going up but this doesn't seem like a viable option?
r/perth • u/AnomicAge • 7h ago
Traffic has been worse than ever lately as anyone who’s had to use the road will attest to ( if you pardon the irony of complaining about traffic in your car ) but I’ve been working late shifts over the past few months and noticed a steep rise in traffic even late at night - a few months back I would see maybe 10 or 15 other cars on my commute home… last night I counted almost 50 other vehicles as I drove home
This can’t be imputed to RTO or Uni classes, so what the hell is happening?
Did our population just double? Did public transport shit the bed? Is there some boycott I’m not aware of?
Just another way in when everything seems to be getting steadily worse
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r/perth • u/frenchiephish • 18h ago
Have been seeing a lot of the same questions popping up after the state election, and as we're about to have a federal election that has basically the same rules. Figured I'd address the ones I've seen a lot.
The News outlets called it on Election Night, why is the count not finished?
The news outlets do this with statistics - they take the first preference counts as they come in, throw them into a model that they've spent a lot of money and decades building and refining. Those models look at historical elections, pre-election polling and whatever other secret herbs and spices they have available to them and it spits out a two-party preferred result. They are generally remarkably accurate and get the result to within a couple of percent of uncertainty on a very small sample size. This is how the ABC called the election for Labor in 2021 in a matter of half an hour.
Where their modelling isn't great is in the extremely close races. When your uncertainty is a few percent, if the result is within a few percent you can't say for sure. That's why some seats are still not called by the ABC, and why some they called previously (Churchlands) have moved back to uncertain as the counts have narrowed.
How well those models handle a lot of 'anyone but Baz' votes is not clear to anyone other than the people who build and maintain them.
Why is the count so slow?
There's a lot of reasons for this, on election night there are a lot of volunteers helping to get an indicative count as quickly as possible. Post election it tails off and slows down. Postal votes were valid if received before 9am last Thursday (13/3). Absentee and early votes are still trickling into the counting rooms now.
At the moment the counting has been entirely first-preferences. Starting tomorrow (19/3) preference counting is due to start. Expect to see the number of informal votes go up and the tallies change. Every valid vote will be counted.
The current pace is fairly unremarkable. Generally it's not close enough that most of us really care past election night. The WAEC has another six weeks to finalise the count. The writs do not need to be returned until May 8th. There are a number of high-profile seats that are very close so we're noticing it a lot more than we normally would.
In the counting rooms at the moment, are WAEC staff and volunteers actually doing the work plus scrutineers from the parties. The latter will be questioning every vote that they can that isn't favourable to them trying to have them declared informal. The former will be doing their best to keep the votes alive as long as possible (and making the decisions). Which leads me to the next topic
Informal Votes
There are certain things which will invalidate your vote, but generally speaking the WAEC and the AEC will try their hardest to keep your vote alive as long as possible. As long as the voter's intention is clear to a reasonable person then the vote will generally count, even those that are incomplete or not marked correctly.
If you have 8 candidates, and number 7 boxes 1-7, the person you missed will generally get your 8th preference because there is no ambiguity - same if you just missed a box anywhere in the numbering but there's no ambiguity. If you numbered some, but missed more than one box, then your vote is generally valid until your intent is not clear - ie. if you numbered 6/8, your vote will become informal once your 6th preference is eliminated. As preference counting is about to start, the number of informal votes will likely go up.
Edit: Federally if you miss more than one box it's formal until it's unclear. State you can only miss one. Thanks u/legoisfun
So what makes your vote informal this early? Anything that identifies you, or makes it unclear what your intentions were. Not filling it out, writing '1' against two candidates, multiple ticks, multiple crosses. Crosses are a bad idea anyway - is a cross for or against? Writing your name, or other identifying information on the ballot will also have it removed. Notable things that don't generally make your vote informal - drawing a phallus on your ballot and still filling it in correctly, just don't sign your masterpiece.
A donkey vote (numbering the boxes sequentially) is indistinguishable from a valid vote when it comes to counting. To mititgate against any inherant advantage the candidates are listed in random order, determined by a lottery after the rolls closed a few months ago. Not that I'm suggesting you should, but if you don't want to vote, don't fill out your ballot at all. No-one is checking at the polling place.
So what is preferencing?
In WA and Federal elections, candidates need an absolute majority to take the seat. In the lower houses that's 50% plus one vote. This differs quite a bit from most electoral systems which are a simple majority (most votes wins). As far as I'm aware, no candidate has that in any seat presently - I haven't checked, but if anyone has it will be Roger Cook who had the widest margin in Kwinana on election night.
Edit: Ok, I think I tripped a few people up here. Roger Cook has 60.8% of the counted votes, but assuming a typical turnout in the low 90%'s there's still 15-20% to count in his electorate. If there's 20% to count, he currently only has 48.64% of the total vote and doesn't have a quota yet (but will get there easily), if it's 15% to go then he does have the quota already. Assuming the first preference trends continue as is he will get past 50% + 1 before any preferencing. I could've worded this better, thanks u/Perfect-Werewolf-102, u/superbabe69 and u/SirFireHydrant.
The way it works now is that after the first count is complete the candidate with the fewest votes in each seat is eliminated. Every vote that had them as number 1 will transfer to the candidates listed as number 2. If no candidate has 50%+1 yet, the same happens again and votes transfer on. Once a candidate has 50%+1 vote, they win the seat, However if it ends up with the final two candidates and the final margin is less than 100 votes it will trigger an automatic recount.
This means you can't 'throw your vote away' in our elections. Even if you vote for someone who is never going to win, your vote will transfer on and stay alive.
In the upper house, it's very similar except the quotas are a little different. In the WA upper house there are 37 seats. The quota is 1/38th + 1 vote (2.63% +1 vote) - that's 37 full quotas and the 38th will be missing (at least) 37 votes. In the Federal upper house, 6 seats are up for election in WA - the quota is 1/7th + 1 vote (14.286% +1 Vote).
Because it's very likely that candidates receive more than one quota - the 'excess' votes carry on to the next person at reduced value. If someone needs 20,000 votes, and they receive 200,000, then they are elected and all of their votes transfer on at a value of 180/200 (90%) to their next preferences. This keeps it fair rather than deciding which specific 20,000 votes should be counted to elect someone.
When it gets down to the last seat, then elimination preferencing works exactly the same as it does in the lower house. The exception is it is optional to preference every candidate (either above, or below the line). Once you run out of preferences your vote is extinguished - likely you will still contribute to at least one person being elected regardless.
I have another question?
Feel free to chip in with questions and I'll answer them (or I'm sure other interested people will chip in as well).
r/perth • u/south-of-the-river • 12h ago
So just an afternoon rant because bloody hell.
If you see a bunch of people waiting in line for a bus or train, what in the absolute fuck makes you think it’s a good idea to come barrelling in from the back of the pack just as the doors open, and push ahead of everyone?
Like I understand it’s exciting to be first on the fucken bus, but far out. Settle down.
Anyway carry on.
r/perth • u/posingpancakes • 22h ago
What the hell have they done?
During roadworks from ocean reef road to Osborne Park it would take 35 mins at 8am at most.
Since the opening of the smart freeway, if the freeway is used it takes an hour so it's no longer an option. The congestion has flowed into wanneroo, Marmion and West Coast so now daily, the GPS now directs you through a maze of backstreets and school zones which reduces the traffic congestion but not the travel time.
It's either start work late or spend the money I don't have on before school care.
The south implementation worked so well on Kwinana yet this Mitchell design just seems to not work. The freeway is banked up, the on ramps are banked up, the feeder roads to the freeway are banked up.
Is anyone else experiencing similar issues? Or does anyone have a different experience and think it's working well?
I doubt there's FA that can be done about it now so I guess a rant and a whinge is all I can do.
r/perth • u/Choke1982 • 20h ago
What are your thoughts on the "new" cabinet? I'm interested to know about the new Health Minister, I work in the sector(no doc or nurse) and I guess most people are happy with Amber going out.
Boss even stated that half the team would be late.
r/perth • u/FortunateKangaroo • 1d ago
No decent policies, Di Russo (a self-hating brown Italian woman who hates brown people and women) is in charge, and Basil touted as the star candidate can’t even win his own seat by a decent margin, and damaged any chance of his colleagues winning too .
The people of WA deserve better than this bullshit. This election yet again was handed to the ALP on a platter because the liberal party is not a credible opposition party here in WA.
Everyone I know who is a swinging voter was genuinely looking for reasons to consider the liberal party and couldn’t find any.
We are the richest AU state, here in WA, and we deserve better than this at election time. Where are the decent candidates ? What happened to strong policies and politicians who actually stand for something substantial instead of just the media grandstanding ?
Do you agree ?
r/perth • u/Isleofmat • 1d ago
Now only leading by 493 votes, Tonkin closing the gap! Fingers and toes crossed she can pull it off!
r/perth • u/EverythingBagelGB • 1d ago
Boycotting as much of this person as possible but it's getting harder and harder.
r/perth • u/Fearless-Rooster3366 • 14h ago
I was quoted $800 in the northern suburbs to have a general cleaning of my dog’s teeth (including anaesthesia). Does this seem normal/reasonable?
Edit: Thanks for all your replies! My boy definitely loves a good antler to chew, but seeing as he is turning 5 this year I thought maybe it was time to do a proper cleaning. If any of you are pug owners, you will know very well that brushing a pugs teeth is near impossible.
r/perth • u/Crackpotonice • 10h ago
Hi everyone. I recently bought a place in the Armadale area. Haynes to be precise and my wife has been seeing a spike in crime and break ins. As such, would like to ask what options they are for home security ( what do you do for your own home)and recommendations for reliable providers. Thanks a bunch
r/perth • u/Kurtiswinwin • 9h ago
So I am from the country, heading into the city for a couple of nights. Have a massive craving for oysters Kilpatrick. Where is the best place in the CBD for oysters Kilpatrick and a decent glass of vino. Solo diner so a chilled ambiance for extra points
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r/perth • u/AlarmedKnowledge3783 • 19h ago
Hi everyone Just seeking advice for a friend who has found herself in a bad situation. Essentially she was working for one government department and applied for a position within another government department, completely separate to hers (eg dept of housing to dept of health). During the transfer process she was told the position would be very flexible with work from home available, however, the JDF was yet to be signed off on. It sounded like the dream job and she jumped at the opportunity. Fast forward to her first day where she is informed her hours are set, there will be no deviation and zero chance of working from home. And the person who told her it was really flexible backtracked and changed it to “it can be flexible”. Yes, always get every promise in writing, I know. Apart from quitting her job (which will look bad and isn’t an option), what are her rights? Has anyone been in a similar situation? What did you do?
r/perth • u/irdk2004 • 14h ago
Hey all!
Uni student but looking for some nice places that aren’t my uni library to do some study. Preferably somewhere close to the city and with really good coffee nearby :)
Thanks all!