Perth / Western Australia

When and where is this African festival you speak of? That sounds really fun, i went to the French festival in Subiaco a few years back and loved it, i'm imagining that, but African culture.

I'd say your mostly on the money about political party politics. I don't know if i'd agree with it, if we include community politics, but this also ties in with my disagreement about WA news below.

A lot of stuff happens in this State. Due to the terrible information circulation brought on by a general lack of good and competitive journalism over here, a lot of it goes unreported and unknown beyond the people involved. There is almost no good independent media, a few exceptions exist, but theres only one i'd say is large enough to handle a real news cycle, and they're a subscription only business focus. (Its Business News WA).

Finding the independent WA news, and leaving the major outlets mostly open for other people to post from has been a rule i've tried to stick to, to promote a more competitive information space.

WA weather is marvellous, agreed, but we're discussing this within weeks of some pretty intense rolling heatwaves, a super weird microburst over the Perth hills last week, and a cyclone (or hurricane?) up North a couple weeks ago. We've largely been lucky with fires this year, but i'd also count that as weather, and there is coral bleaching occurring due to the heat along the coast. I can't agree with you that WA weather is always marvellous and therefore boring.