Eleven suburbs have joined the $1m median house price club as values continue to climb in Perth.
While other states are seeing house prices fall, Perth has lagged behind most of the other capitals.
It means despite rising interest rates and cost of living pressures, the housing market in WA has soared in the past year.
Six of the 11 suburbs recorded more than 20 per cent price growth during the 2021-22 financial year, according to the Real Estate Institute of Western Australia.
Marmion, Mount Hawthorn, North Perth, Fremantle and Kensington had their median house prices tip above $1.1m at the end of June.
Gwelup, Booragoon, Karrinyup, Leederville, Iluka and Como reached $1m or more.
The top suburb is Marmion, which now has a median price of $1.27m — an increase of 32 per cent in the past year.
Eleven suburbs have joined the $1m median house price club in Perth. Daily Telegraph/Gaye Gerard Credit: News Corp Australia
REIWA president Damian Collins said people had started to gain confidence in WA’s strong economy and property market, which had translated into more sales at the top end.
“All of these suburbs have had medians hovering below $1m for quite some time,” he said.
“It is impressive to see the demand for houses in these suburbs hold strong throughout the 2021-22 financial year, now placing them in Perth’s luxury market.”
Mr Collins said Perth’s premium market was attracting a lot of interest from buyers leading to strong price growth.
“If you are considering selling in one of these suburbs, now would be an opportunistic time to capitalize on this demand,” he said.
REIWA predicts house prices will continue to rise in Perth for some time.
“Given Perth has a housing shortage, the cheapest median house price of any capital city in the country, a growing population and strong economy, we anticipate house prices to continue to rise as we enter the back end of 2022,” Mr Collins said.
“As more suburbs reap the benefits of our strong market conditions, Perth’s million-dollar club is likely to continue to grow over the next 12 months.”
Four people riding in a golf cart were killed — including two juveniles — when a purportedly intoxicated man driving an SUV ran a stop sign at an intersection in southeast Texas, police said.
Miguel Espinoza, 45, has been charged with four counts of intoxication manslaughter in the crash about 11:30 pm Saturday in Galveston, about 50 miles southeast of Houston, police said.
Espinoza was being held in Galveston County Jail on Sunday on a $400,000 bond, police said. Jail records did not list an attorney for him.
Galveston Police Sgt. Derek Gaspard said that after the SUV failed to stop, it struck a pickup, which then crashed into the golf cart that had six people aboard. He said the golf cart and pickup were traveling in opposite directions through the intersection on a street that did not have a stop sign.
Police said the adult driver of the golf cart was pronounced dead at the scene while a woman and two juveniles on the golf cart were taken to a hospital, where they died. The two other passengers — an adult and a juvenile — were hospitalized Sunday in critical condition, police said.
Espinoza, who lives in the Houston-area city of Rosenberg, and his passenger had minor injuries, police said. They were taken to the hospital and later released.
The occupants of the pickup were not injured, Gaspard said.
Names and ages of the dead weren’t immediately released.
Gaspard said he believes the golf cart, which was rented, was operating legally on the city street. He said members of two families were riding on the golf cart at the time of the crash.
Galveston Mayor Craig Brown said golf carts have become “quite a prolific mode of transportation” for residents and visitors to the island resort area, which is located on the Gulf of Mexico.
Brown said the city has in the past put in place ordinances to make operating golf carts safer, and will consider additional ordinances at an upcoming City Council meeting.
“I was out last night,” Brown said. “The island was busy and there were golf carts — residential as well as rental golf carts — out all over these streets.”
In news that will strike fear into the heart of anyone who has struggled with a corkscrew, the traditional wine closure — cork — is making a comeback.
Key points:
Winemakers say cork is more sustainable and improves the aging process of wine
Only about 15 per cent of Australian wines use a cork closure
A cork manufacturing company says a recycling program requires a critical mass of the closure
While screw caps have dominated the Australian wine industry for decades, a new generation of winemakers is going old school.
Noah Ward is a brand ambassador at Unico Zelo, which produces wines in South Australia’s Adelaide Hills.
He said making wine more sustainable was behind the push to put corks back into bottles.
“You can’t grow a screw cap. It’s a finite resource that you have to mine … but you can grow cork trees til the cows come home,” Mr Ward said.
“There’s also that little plastic polymer that’s not necessarily good for the planet [because it] won’t biodegrade very well.”
Mr Ward said in addition to its environmental benefits, corks also helped wines develop more naturally.
Unico Zelo brand ambassador Noah Ward says he knows of about 50 winemakers of his generation who were using cork.(Supplied: Unico Zelo)
“Our business started in the 2010s, which was a pretty big shift in the wine industry with the emergence of natural wine or lo-fi wine, minimal intervention, wine. Most of the producers of that ilk were using corks or other products like that ,” he said.
“There are things that screw caps can do better than corks, they can keep wine protected from oxygen for a long period of time, so they can age a lot longer.
“But I like to see a wine develop quicker, so I can actually drink it [sooner rather] than wait 25 years for my semillon to finally get to that point where it’s not extremely high in acid.”
Why did corks fall out of fashion?
General manager Dan Simmons of Australian cork manufacturer Vinocor said the change came about because of a chemical called trichloroanisole or TCA.
“The term is ‘corked’,” he said.
“TCA can make the wine smell like wet cardboard—it basically ruins the wine.
“Back in the 90s, around 5 per cent of wines were being tainted by this chemical compound.”
In response to this, Mr Simmons said Australian wine producers started shifting to screw caps in the early 2000s.
“The cork industry went from supplying nearly all of the market to a position where probably only 10 per cent of the market was filled with cork,” he said.
Then in 2004 Diam created a solution.
“They took some technology that was used by the coffee industry to remove caffeine from coffee beans and adapted that to the cork industry to remove TCA and other flavour-modifying molecules,” Mr Simmons said.
“It also solved the other problem of bottle variation because the Diam cork is actually granulated cork, and then it’s put back together. So they’re very consistent as it removed the problem of random oxidisation.”
But the local industry had moved on.
The Diam cork is made from granulated offcuts, pieced together with a carbon-based glue.(Supplied: Vinocor)
Mr Simmons said while cork was experiencing a resurgence, making up about 15 per cent of closures of Australian wines, more companies needed to use it to make recycling programs effective.
“The secondary uses are immense,” he said.
“[Cork is in] the soles of shoes, in building products, and sporting goods such as the inside of cricket balls.”
Mr Simmons said Vinocor hoped to work with competitors to encourage the use of corks more widely.
“Sustainability is very important for the wine industry. We’re signatories to the Australian packaging covenant, so we need to find ways to make sure that our packaging products are recyclable or compostable,” he said.
“Certainly in other markets around the world, like in America and in Europe, collecting corks for recycling is just normal practice because they have the critical mass.”
Unico Zelo lists packaging materials, such as corks and palettes, in online marketplaces or donates them to local kindergartens.(Supplied: Unico Zelo)
not corkscrew? No problem
Mr Ward said once consumers understood the benefits of cork, they were on board.
But ensuring they had the tools to open wines with this closure had been a challenge.
Last year Unico Zelo even ran a “sabre off” competition calling for customers to share videos on social media of them cutting open wine bottles.
The raw material of cork is taken from a cork oak, with the tree able to be harvested up to 15 times during its life.(Supplied: Vinocor)
“One of my favorite things in the world is trying to MacGyver open a bottle of wine,” Mr Ward said.
“You can even open wine with a shoe, I’ve done that a few times before, you can get tricky with drills… you can even use a spatula.”
“But I think now it’s becoming one of those things where if you’re into wine and you start buying stuff from interesting small producers you’re going to have to spend 10 bucks to buy a corkscrew.”
Australians are back traveling overseas after a two-year hiatus during the COVID pandemic and now there’s an even easier way to charge your devices no matter where you are in the world with the OneWorld 65 International Adapter.
Not only will the OneWorld 65 International Adapter connect to power points in more than 200 countries it can also charge six devices at the same time.
It does this thanks to GaN (Gallium Nitride) which transfers current more efficiently and generates less heat, so more power goes towards the charge.
There’s also a 65W USB-C PD (power delivery) charging port for fast charging smartphones and tablets and even charging a MacBook without the need for an external power brick.
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The OneWorld 65 – International Adapter with 65W PD Charger (PA-ONE-65W) is available now and is priced at $99.35 from oneadaptr.com.
Crown Princess Mary and Crown Prince Frederick of Denmark have announced they’re sending their two eldest children to new schools in the wake of a damaging bullying scandal.
The Danish royal household issued a statement on Sunday confirming Prince Christian, 16, and Princess Isabella, 15, will start at separate schools this week.
The decision was made after “the Crown Prince’s family’s deliberations during the summer”, the palace said.
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Prince Christian with Crown Prince Frederik and Crown Princess Mary outside Herlufsholm School in August, 2021. (Keld Navntoft, Kongehuset)
The family has recently returned to Copenhagen after their summer break at Gråsten Palace.
Prince Christian, who is heir to the Danish throne after his father, will start at the Ordrup Gymnasium (Ordrup High School) in Gentofte, north of Copenhagen.
Princess Isabella will start at Ingrid Jespersens Gymnasieskole (Ingrid Jespersen’s High School) in Copenhagen.
Last month, Princess Mary and Prince Frederik pulled Prince Christian out of the Herlufsholm Boarding School after claims of bullying were brought to light.
They also confirmed Princess Isabella would not be attending the prestigious school as planned.
Princess Isabella of Denmark pictured for her 15th birthday on April 21, 2022. (Hasse Nielsen)
The Crown Prince couple issued a statement saying they would decide on new schools for their children after allegations emerged of a violent culture filled with abuse and bullying at Herlufsholm.
Students have also accused the school and its staff of covering up their stories of abuse.
“The question about our son Christian’s and our daughter Isabella’s choice of school has been very important for us, and the unfortunate matter has brought many and strong opinions into play in the public,” Crown Prince Frederik and Crown Princess Mary said in a joint statement on June 25.
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“That is completely understandable when it deals with the well-being of children and young people. At the same time, it has been important to stand by our basic idea that major decisions must be made on an informed basis. We now have that basis.” .”
Crown Princess Mary and her family at Graasten Castle in Denmark in July, 2022. (Instagram/The Danish Royal Household)
Their message came after the release of a preliminary decision from Denmark’s National Agency for Education and Quality that “directs a particularly harsh critique” of Herlufsholm.
“It has been a difficult process for us as a family, but, based on the overall picture and our special position as Crown Prince Couple, we have chosen that Prince Christian will stop at Herlufsholm and that Princess Isabella will not start in ninth class at the school after the summer holiday.
“With thoughts about the many students who will continue at Herlufsholm, it is our hope that the school now gets more peace to ensure the necessary changes and succeeds in creating a culture in which all thrive and feel safe.”
In May, at documentary on TV2 included claims from a student who described being sexually abused by another, another student spoke of corporal punishment and a third described being assaulted during a party at the school.
Crown Princess Mary and her family at Fredensborg Palace for the confirmation of Princess Isabella on April 30, 2022. (Getty)
In November last year, four students were expelled after being accused of taking part in the abuse and filming a number of incidents.
Some students have claimed staff turned a blind eye to their claims.
When the allegations came to light, Princess Mary and her husband issued a swift response expressing their shock and disappointment.
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“As parents of a child who goes to Herlufsholm, we are deeply shaken by the testimonies that have emerged in the current documentary about the school,” the Crown Prince couple said on May 4.
“It is heart-breaking to hear about systematic bullying and about the culture of abuse and violence that many have been a part of.
Prince Christian at his new school, Herlufsholm, in August, 2021. (Keld Navntoft, Kongehuset)
“That is completely unacceptable. As parents, we expect the school to effectively ensure a culture where everyone is safe and part of the community, and we will in the coming time follow the changes that are obviously necessary.”
Prince Christian16, is not connected to the allegations in any way.
In August, 2021, he posed with his mum and dad at Herlufsholm as he began his time at the boarding school.
Herlufsholm was founded in 1565 for Danish nobility and is located 80km outside of Copenhagen in Næstved.
Prince Christian was the first future king to attend the school, although several of his alumni are artists and politicians, including two former prime ministers.
The Crown Prince family inside their home, Frederik VIII’s Palace at Amalienborg in Copenhagen. (Hassen Nielsen)
Christian’s cousin Prince Nikolai, who is the eldest son of Prince Joachimis a former student of Herlufsholm and graduated in 2018.
The Danish royal household announced that Prince Christian would start at the school in August last year having finished his education at Tranegårdskolen in Gentofte.
Christian had been at that school from grade one to grade nine.
Around 600 students are enrolled at the school with approximately 275 living on campus.
They follow a 10-day program with lessons on Saturdays followed by a three-day weekend.
The allegations about Herlufsholm follow earlier claims about tough disciplinary practices at the institution.
Herlufsholm School responded to the documentary’s claims in a statement issued on May 3.
The school’s rector Mikkel Kjellberg said many of the allegations contained within the television program were “very old cases have been used from another time – where the culture at Herlufsholm was different”.
He said the bullying and violence were “not part of the culture at Herlufsholm”.
Crown Princess Mary and her family begin summer holiday
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NRL star Bryce Cartwright will front a Sydney court this week after police took out a restraining order to protect his anti-vaxxer ex-wife.
Cartwright split from his former wife Shanelle early last year, just months after walking away from a $450,000-a-season contract with the Gold Coast Titans.
The 27-year-old forward returned to New South Wales in September 2020 with Shanelle, the mother of his two children, citing personal reasons. He now plays for the Parramatta Eels.
Police have sought an apprehended violence order against Cartwright on behalf of Shanelle and the footballer is due to appear in Waverley Local Court on Thursday.
NRL star Bryce Cartwright will front a Sydney court this week after police took out a restraining order to protect his anti-vaxxer ex-wife Shanelle. The former couple is pictured
Cartwright split from wife Shanelle early last year, just months after walking away from a $450,000-a-season contract with the Gold Coast Titans. The former couple have two children
An interim order states that Cartwright must not assault, threaten, stalk, harass or intimidate his former partner as well as other standard conditions he does not damage her property or harm any animal she owns.
Cartwright is not facing any criminal charges.
An incident which led to the AVO being sought was described by sources as a ‘domestic dispute’ which was in no physical way, according to The Daily Telegraph.
The former couple’s beliefs about vaccinations, expressed mostly on social media, were widely condemned by medical experts in 2020.
At the time of their split, Cartwright’s agent Allan Gainey of Pinnacle Sports Management said the split was a ‘personal matter’.
‘Look, the kid is in a good spot at the moment and I want to keep him in that spot,’ Gainey said in January last year. ‘He does n’t need any publicity surrounding his personal life.’
Police have sought an apprehended violence order against Cartwright on behalf of Shanelle and the footballer is due to appear in Waverley Local Court on Thursday. The couple relocated to Sydney in September 2020 citing ‘personal reasons’
Concerns for Cartwright’s mental state began after he and Shanelle were sent a number of threats on social media due to their controversial stance on vaccinations.
Some of the threats involved harming the couple’s young children.
‘At some point it does take a toll,’ Cartwright said at the time. ‘I speak to a counselor every now and then just to clear my mind.
‘I have little things I like to do, like meditation… it clears my head and can be as simple as just going for a swim, staying off my phone or taking the kids to the beach.’
Shanelle (pictured) and Bryce Cartwright were outspoken about their views on vaccinations
Cartwright, a standout Penrith junior before making his first grade debut in 2014, was granted permission to continue playing in the NRL in May 2020 despite refusing a mandatory influenza vaccination.
That vaccination was part of the NRL’s return-to-play regulations at the height of the Covid pandemic.
The Titans submitted an application for a medical exemption which was granted by Queensland’s chief medical officer Jeannette Young.
Cartwright and his wife sparked then controversy when they publicly declared they would not vaccinate their young children.
Cartwright (pictured above) walked away from a big contract with the Gold Coast before signing with Parramatta
The couple called themselves ‘pro-choice’ rather than ‘anti-vax’.
Once touted as a NSW State of Origin prospect following a strong start to his career with the Panthers, Cartwright made the move to the Titans to work under ex-coach Garth Brennan in 2018.
He played just three games for Gold Coast in 2020 before linking with Parramatta, where he made 19 appearances last year.
Cartwright has turned out for the Eels seven times this year, including coming off the bench in a 36-20 win over Manly on Friday night.
Three more people have come forward to lodge complaints against a massage therapist and personal trainer accused of raping and sexually assaulting two of his clients in regional Victoria.
Police allege Michael Allwood, 62, raped and sexually assaulted two women during a massage at his business in Maryborough, about 170 kilometers northwest of Melbourne in the Central Goldfields, on January 15 and June 29 this year.
Maryborough massage therapist and personal trainer Michael Allwood.Credit:Facebook
Allwood was arrested and charged last Wednesday following a raid of his business, Massage by Michael of Maryborough Victoria and Personal Training 1 to 1, but was later released on bail.
He appeared in Bendigo Magistrates’ Court on Monday morning charged with two counts of rape and one count of sexual assault.
The court heard that at least three other complainants had come forward to provide statements to police since the 62-year-old’s arrest but no information on the nature of the allegations was provided.
Images shared on Facebook suggest Allwood ran his personal training and massage business out of a converted garage at a home on Majorca Road and advertised massages from $10.
Images of Allwood’s business in Maryborough. A massage table can be seen in the corner, separated from the gym by a curtain.Credit:Facebook
Photographs of the cluttered space show exercise machines and equipment on stained foam gym tiles and a massage table in a corner, separated from the exercise area by a curtain.
On his business’s Facebook page, Allwood, who claims to be certified in several massage techniques, offered strength training, pilates classes, surgery recovery exercises, and neck and full-body massages.
MINNEAPOLIS – A man is dead and another man is in custody after deadly shooting inside a downtown Minneapolis apartment Sunday night, which involved a gun that was tossed onto the rooftop of the WCCO-TV building next door.
Minneapolis Police are on the @WCCO rooftop where a gun was thrown, potentially from the neighboring apartment complex. We saw officers standing on a balcony looking downwards in this direction. pic.twitter.com/twpfWvw4Fc
Officers arrived at WCCO at about 8 pm, while other officers were seen at the Artistry on 10th apartment building — located on the 1000 block of South Marquette Avenue — standing on a balcony that overlooks WCCO’s rooftop. A resident confirmed with WCCO at about 8:45 pm that the apartment building had been put on lockdown.
The gun does appear to have blood on the pistol’s slide. It’s kind of weird to listen to scanner traffic talk about us – and hear officers talk back from our very rooftop.
MPD Public Information Officer Garret Parten says the relationship between the shooter and victim is not clear at this point, and there was no sign of forced entry in the apartment.
“There has to be a better way to settle disputes than pulling out a gun,” Parten said.
This is the 56th homicide of the year in Minneapolis, and the second that occurred in the city on Sunday.
Check back for more details in this developing story.
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Eleven suburbs have joined the $1m median house price club as values continue to climb in Perth.
While other states are seeing house prices fall, Perth has lagged behind most of the other capitals.
It means despite rising interest rates and cost of living pressures, the housing market in WA has soared in the past year.
Six of the 11 suburbs recorded more than 20 per cent price growth during the 2021-22 financial year, according to the Real Estate Institute of Western Australia.
Marmion, Mount Hawthorn, North Perth, Fremantle and Kensington had their median house prices tip above $1.1m at the end of June.
Gwelup, Booragoon, Karrinyup, Leederville, Iluka and Como reached $1m or more.
The top suburb is Marmion, which now has a median price of $1.27m — an increase of 32 per cent in the past year.
REIWA president Damian Collins said people had started to gain confidence in WA’s strong economy and property market, which had translated into more sales at the top end.
“All of these suburbs have had medians hovering below $1m for quite some time,” he said.
“It is impressive to see the demand for houses in these suburbs hold strong throughout the 2021-22 financial year, now placing them in Perth’s luxury market.”
Mr Collins said Perth’s premium market was attracting a lot of interest from buyers leading to strong price growth.
“If you are considering selling in one of these suburbs, now would be an opportunistic time to capitalize on this demand,” he said.
REIWA predicts house prices will continue to rise in Perth for some time.
“Given Perth has a housing shortage, the cheapest median house price of any capital city in the country, a growing population and strong economy, we anticipate house prices to continue to rise as we enter the back end of 2022,” Mr Collins said.
“As more suburbs reap the benefits of our strong market conditions, Perth’s million-dollar club is likely to continue to grow over the next 12 months.”
Have you ever heard of a “Dystopian Document Thriller”? Nope? That’s because an indie game called ‘Papers, Please’ invented it. In the same way that Death Stranding made walking exhilarating (depending on who you ask), developer Lucas Pope turned checking border crossing papers as an immigration inspector at a border checkpoint for the fictional communist country of Arstotzka into something much deeper than the task itself. In fact, it’s a socio-political commentary on communist police states (technically, communism is stateless) and the human condition.
The communist state of Arstotzka has just ended a 6-year war with neighboring Kolechia and reclaimed its rightful half of the border town, Grestin.
Your job as immigration inspector is to control the flow of people entering the Arstotzkan side of Grestin from Kolechia. Among the throngs of immigrants and visitors looking for work are hidden smugglers, spies, and terrorists.
Using only the documents provided by travelers and the Ministry of Admission’s primitive inspect, search, and fingerprint systems you must decide who can enter Arstotzka and who will be turned away or arrested.
In Papers, Please, you’re tasked with making difficult decisions that straddle the moral and ethical line, determining the outcome of not only individuals, but entire families attempting to gain passage through the checkpoint. I know, all pretty heavy stuff, right? Oh, and if you don’t properly check papers and accidentally admit enough people who aren’t supposed to cross (smugglers, spies, and terrorists), then your character suffers the consequences if you know what I mean.
Why would you want to play this in a game then? Well, as with anything else that challenges our critical thinking faculties, it requires you to do just that, making it incredibly fun or at the very least, intriguing on a new level.
If you’d like to see the development process Lucas Pope implemented to port the game over to mobile, you can check out his blog post. There was also a short film made of the concept the game employs, and you can watch the video below to see his journey with all of its ups and downs during the creation of the game.
I actually happened upon it via this clip from YouTuber ThatGuyGlen who has loads of entertaining gaming history videos on his channel. Truth be told, the only thing more interesting than playing the game and experiencing it directly is the story of how Lucas came about the idea for it and began building it out, so I would encourage you to take a look!
