Saskia Pickles

Students across all disciplines at the University of Western Australia this year will be offered courses and internships on issues such as homelessness, mental health and chronic disadvantage.

Disability services provider Rocky Bay has taken over the services of 45-year-old agency Spina Bifida and Hydrocephalus Association of Western Australia.

As Western Australia and the rest of the world prepare for a hotter, drier climate in the years and decades ahead, Murdoch University researchers are working to determine which areas of the state may be at a greater risk of bushfires.

Perth-based international recruitment agency Tecside Group has acquired health and resources-focused Subiaco recruitment firm SeaStone Group for an undisclosed amount.

Fringe World Festival has gone from strength to strength since not-for-profit organisation Artrage first tested it on Perth audiences in 2011

A faltering economy and an increase in the number of people leaving the state compared with arrivals has failed to halt growth in enrolments at both local Catholic and other private schools, and public schools.

City of Perth chief executive Gary Stevenson has been sacked, three years into a five-year contract, following a horror year for the council.

In an exclusive Business News survey, leaders of some of WA’s top charities reveal they are more optimistic than last year, despite increasing competition for funds, challenging economic times and charity fatigue.

Western Australians donating household items for people affected by the bushfires in the South West have been so generous that St Vincent de Paul Society WA has been inundated with goods exceeding its capacity to deliver them.