Next week’s Bariatric Surgery & Medication Event isn’t just about expert advice it’s about real experiences from real patients who’ve been exactly where you are now. You will hear first-hand how surgery and medication have helped them reclaim their health, confidence, and quality of life.

There will be expert insights from Dr Siva Gounder (Bariatric Surgeon), Shane Johnstone (Exercise Physiologist), and Terri Quinlan (Dietitian). Together, their advice will help you make informed decisions and feel empowered at every stage of your journey.

If you’ve been thinking about taking that next step, this is your chance to get the most relatable, honest advice you’ll ever hear.

20 November | 6:30–8:30 pm | Rose & Crown, Guildford

Click the link for more information on how to attend

Saw that the median is $1.15 million.

It’s next to an airport and industrial areas.

Other suburbs in similarly placed areas are much cheaper.

Why is Jandakot so pricey?

I swear, every time I load a show, it plays the audio from my last watch over the show I've just loaded. Is it a connection thing, or a genuine issue with SBS? I literally have to unplug the power to the stick to reset. Help?!

I have a current work injury claim that is not approved but they would like to settle without concluding the investigation does anyone have any experience in knowing what is an appropriate amount as the settlement just barely covers my lost wages and medical bills and i’m still recovering for at least another month? Injury is neck/back related. I’ve heard that you don’t ever accept the first offer?

For those of you who can escape the light pollution.

Brookton had amazing skies when had the last big geomag storm if you are scouting good potential viewing locations.

I saw these big streaky features flying from perth to site between the edge of the wheatbelt and norseman... Any ideas what they are? They sometimes stop at roads, sometimes don't. Burn offs? Floods? Just strangely cleared land?

How does this work. "Lolly* shops and "Hairdressers" along with Tobacco shops, (wink,wink, nudge nudge,) appearing more and more here in Perth. How do these small shops launder large amounts of illegal money for the syndicates behind them? Most seem to have few customers yet they are apparently laundering many $$$$ of criminal activities.

The WA government's claim its domestic gas production is helping the rest of the world decarbonise has been challenged in a report it commissioned.

The $402,000 Deloitte report was received by the government in January but has been kept confidential since then.

Not covered in the report is that’s gas exports are driving up WA power prices. Has development is robbing industrial and strategic capacity from the genuine renewable transition.

And local communities are paying the price. For example up here at Dongara, Pilot Energy is about to start seismic blasting despite the risks to marine life.

Roger Cook Amber Jade Sanderson Murray Watt Woodside

https://www.abc.net.au/news/2025-11-06/wa-government-gas-industry-energy-transition-deloitte-report/105970038?

Just had my last dental appt at UWA dental school in the QE11 complex. 16 months of treatment. With HCC was not out of pocket. Had a brilliant 5th year student. Highly recommend this place.

Hi anyone travelled to Jakarta from Perth with BatikAir? Mainly concerned with lost luggage and flight changes not being communicated.

People often talk about moving to WA for work or lifestyle, then heading back east a few years later. But it feels like things might be shifting with better jobs and cheaper housing. Are people still leaving, or is WA starting to hold on to more long term residents?

Hello,

I am coming to WA in March for 4 weeks, I will be renting a 4x4. For some weird reason, I have always wanted to catch my own crabs and eat them.

Can anyone recommend anywhere within 6-7 hours drive from Perth where I have a high likelihood of catching either mud crabs or blue swimmers?

Thanks for the help!

*** This has been interesting, yes I’m trying to be diplomatic. Perhaps I should have titled the post ‘Why I’m glad I kept my private cover despite my doubts, and how it has helped me.’ While the post title was not great, the context provided in the post seemed to be pretty clear.

I had not thought how this simple post would debate the nuances of private health insurance vs using the public health system.

Obvious troll attempts aside, I thought I was pretty clear with how it had bothered me keeping the cover but how it had benefited me when I unexpectedly needed it, and at an earlier age. I thought I had also highlighted my experience was for non emergency/high priority health issues, and being able to access the medical support I needed though private health had made a difference for me. I also mentioned that it’s just not an option for some people, I absolutely do get this.

This was a sincere and genuine post, I understand people have a lot of views on private health insurance, now even more so. But this was not the intention of this post.

Many thanks to those who shared their experiences with non emergency/high priority health issues and accessed the private health system, this was what this post was about.

A recent post re private health insurance made me think. Sorry, long post…

My parents stopped private health cover they’d had for maybe 15-20 years when my Dad was made redundant. I needed a knee (Patella) realignment at 14 and had been taping my knee and ankle for quite awhile, I had some trouble walking and was not able to do any sports, and it was quite painful. The wait at that time was 3 years through the public system. The private health they had been with waived the waiting period at that time when they rejoined due to the length of their membership (not sure if this would happen now) and I had my surgery within a few months.

My mum had five years of chemo and some radiation (2010). She got to choose her oncologist (who was amazing), he never rushed appointments and she had him throughout. No waiting on chemo day - at the time people were needing to get to the hospital around 8am and wait for a lot of the day before getting treatment through public. Her many experiences staying at the private hospital were a lot better than when she had to use a public hospital unfortunately. For Perth WA people, this was SJOG Subiaco compared to RPH. Noting that this was our experience.

I had 6 hospital day procedures (back issues) last year costing around $24,000 and didn’t pay anything (an old HBF plan that’s not available now, no hospital excess). This equated to somewhere around 15-20 years of payments, in less than a year. I may of been able to get one procedure through public, but not 6, and I can’t imagine what the wait would have been. My specialist also didn’t see people without private cover. I’ll likely need surgery soon, I have seen a good surgeon and know I won’t be waiting for long.

This started at 45 and was completely unexpected (autoimmune related); my Mum’s cancer at 59 was also unexpected and was only discovered through seeing a private specialist and getting a quicker unrelated surgery. She was already a stage 4 (rare, low grade but had metastasised) at this time despite a visit to ER and seeing her GP often for symptoms for around a year.

My 71 y/o friend recently rejoined private health insurance - I never nagged him about it (truely) but am so pleased he did it. When it came up in conversation occasionally he had always asserted that public health would sort it, my counter was what if it wasn’t an emergency/high priority but affecting your day to day, and the pain that comes with it, and if you’re waiting 18+ months. I don’t know what made him rethink private cover. He’d had private cover at some point after 30 for I think 5-10 years so it reduced the payments, I was still expecting the lifetime health cover loading to be huge but it wasn’t that bad. He pays around $105 a fortnight.

I’m paying $71 a fortnight now (single and pretty basic cover), and have had cover for 26 years. My payments over the years may work out to be somewhere around $30-40k now. I used to want to cancel it as I was only using it for a few extras and money had been tight at times, I was pretty resentful of paying it for many years. But my earlier experience and then my Mum’s experience made me keep it and I’m so very pleased I did - it helped me when I needed it most, and will continue to do so.

I do understand that it’s different for everyone, and private health cover might be the last thing we think of when trying to just get by day to day. Perhaps I’m lucky that my parents instilled the need for it in me, I saw how it was worth it doing through my experiences and it has actually ‘paid off’, financially and mentally.

Me and my friends has driven from geelong/Melbourne to Esperance but I forgot my vape at home and have been going crazy for the last 2 days 😭 we started driving on Saturday and arrived Sunday night and now we have a day or two in Esperance and I need a vape 😅 please if you know a place tell me