The tug-of-war between Hancock Prospecting and the City of Perth over a helipad for the country’s richest woman has exposed the differences in the vision for the city’s western edge.
Gina Rinehart’s new Perth headquarters, nestled among a sea of grey offices and heritage homes and adorned with a pink exterior styled on Sturt’s desert pea, stands as an ode to the resource-rich region where she amassed her fortune.
The $80 million, five-storey building in West Perth opened several months ago, but without the crowning glory the billionaire has wanted all along.
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While Perth’s house prices slips, 17 suburbs across the city have quietly cracked the $1 million mark in 90 days - with one suburb gaining as much as $234,000 to its median.
Towers of up to 20 storeys are on the table, alongside a rethink of development rules and a new consolidated charge on builders…
Bird lovers say departmental red tape needlessly delayed a bid to save 50 vulnerable black swan cygnets from fox attacks on a drying lake near Mandurah.
The One Nation leader was responding to claims from former campaign director Sean Black, made in a secretly recorded conversation uncovered by this masthead.
In secret recordings Pauline Hanson’s former campaign chief bemoans the populist party’s dysfunction and expresses concern that the billionaire is secretly dictating party strategy.
The Perth property boom may have slowed from the highs reached in the past year, but experts say good fundamentals still underpin the market.
