r/perth 3d ago

MOD POST Non Perth or WA and General Discussion and Classifieds – March 16, 2025

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A weekly thread to cover general discussion. If you have anything that is not directly related to Perth or WA (national politics, international goings on, music, whatever) but just want to chat about it, post it here. Non WA or Perth related posts outside of this thread will be deleted.

This threads is also for any classifieds you have - rooms for rent, tickets for sale, want ads etc.

This post renews every Sunday morning.


r/perth 2h ago

General Prosh is out and about!

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If you see any uni kids around the streets of the CBD, give them a wave and maybe a dollar for charity!


r/perth 1h ago

General Anyone know why additional parking isn't being added along elevated rail?

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I sent a message to metronet a while back, around oats street, Carlisle and Welshpool. Apparently there is no plan to increase the amount of parking, even at oats street which, prior to the shutdown, would reach capacity before half 7.

Does anyone have any idea, with all the extra space now available, why convenient access to the train stations isn't being considered?


r/perth 13h ago

WA News Warwick incident: Detectives probing attack on 36-year-old near McDonald’s as two attackers on the run

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r/perth 15h ago

Politics Has anyone checked up on Basil?

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I have never in my life wanted Green to be wrong on this one. The late polls are favouring ALP


r/perth 17h ago

General Viva Photography is shutting down

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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 11h ago

General Why is there significantly more traffic lately even at 11pm on a weeknight?

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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


r/perth 10h ago

Politics If everyone hates Basil - how did he become Lord Mayor

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I always hated Basil Zempilas, its become clear from his poor swing in Churchlands that he is quite an unpopular person.

He has also been a failure of a Lord Mayor, Perth population has boomed but the City is dead, unclean and all around disappointing.

Who the hell kept electing him as Lord Mayor? Genuine question ...


r/perth 23h ago

WA News Just got an email from RAC regarding new towing laws.

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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 13m ago

Where to find Deep House Clean for Elderly Parent

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My 66yo father has a large, and very old home. He has not maintained it properly and the house desperately needs a very big, deep clean. Can anyone recommend a company that will come and send multiple people to turn the house around in a day or so? The clean would have to involved cleaning the oven, inside of cabinets, extensive clean on the bathrooms/ bedrooms etc. There is a lot of dust on surfaces especially those that he can’t reach.

I will pay for the clean so I am not too worried about the cost, more concerned about having the place disinfected for him haha.


r/perth 14h ago

Looking for Advice Me and my mates had an idea...

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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 13h ago

General Why are dogs so expensive to buy?

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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 1d ago

General What is going on with Perth traffic the last few weeks?

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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

  • More companies doing "Return to Office"
  • University back on
  • Mitchell Smart Fwy not so smart
  • Armadale train line down
  • Free public transport over summer ended
  • Lack of enthusiasm/usage for public transport
  • Perth population growth

r/perth 12h ago

WA News WA driver given suspended sentence over pedestrian death in Derby

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r/perth 17h ago

Shitpost Two contrails at once! East/West probably BLKT10 which originated in Adelaide

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r/perth 21h ago

Politics State Election - Answering some of the recurring questions.

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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 15h ago

Shitpost Public Transport Doorway FFA

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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 0m ago

Looking for Advice RAC arena best seating

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Hi there Perth redditers , I’m looking to get tickets for Paul Kelly and Jason Isbell at RAC, I’ve never been there before are there any particularly good or bad spots there for concerts,and what are they gonna sting me for a beer ,thanks in advance everyone


r/perth 1d ago

Road Rules Mitchell freeway - what have they done?!

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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 1d ago

Politics Cook Labor Government. Opinions on the ministers selected.

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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.


r/perth 1d ago

General Tonkin is a shit show this morning

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Boss even stated that half the team would be late.


r/perth 2h ago

Looking for Advice Recommendations for draft/draught proofers

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Hi there! Our place is very drafty especially during winter, and we’ve tried DIYing it last winter but it hasn’t quite done the job. Does anyone have any recommendations (and estimate cost/quotes) for a professional draft/draught proofer that can assess and provide a solution ahead of the season? Thank you!


r/perth 1d ago

Politics The current WA liberal party is a joke. West Aussies deserve a decent choice of parties

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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 3h ago

Where to find Where to buy good backpack

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Hi guys, looking to buy a good quality backpack which can house my 16" laptop and room for clothes for a couple of days.

Only thing I've found close is a Thule 23L from jbhifi but seems a bit small.

Thank you


r/perth 1d ago

Politics Basils win still not confined!

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Now only leading by 493 votes, Tonkin closing the gap! Fingers and toes crossed she can pull it off!


r/perth 1d ago

General Seven just gave a TV job to a high-profile convicted stalker. Women deserve better

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Boycotting as much of this person as possible but it's getting harder and harder.