They want to go up but not everyone sees the merit of this.

Caitlin Nienaber spoke to two gentlemen who love their city but are divided about its future; Fremantle Mayor Brad Pettit and Fremantle Society President Roel Loopers.

He indicated that if same sex marriage was to be legalised this moral decline would continue.. or did he?

All Things Queer’s Paul Van Lieshout Hunt spoke to the Archbishop about his comments and about the decline or Australia’s ‘moral fibre’.

The deal could be the biggest native title settlement in Australian history and will place the billion-dollar sum into a trust fund in installments, to be accessed only after 10 years.

In return, the Noongar people will relinquish all native title claims forever, paving the way for development in property and industry.

The deal’s been received pretty positively by local native title representatives.

And the State Government’s also trying to convince the Federal Government to honour its Keating-era promise of paying 75% of the costs of the settlement.

Joe Cassidy considered the deal with South West Aboriginal Land and Sea Council Chief Executive Glen Kelly on MOrning Magzine.

The widespread protests, influenced by other Arab Spring revolutions in Egypt and Tunisia, have been in an attempt to remove the president Bashar Al-assad from power.

Among the demonstrations we’re hearing reports of soldiers being ordered to shoot civilians, with those who refuse executed themselves – a practice the Syrian government denies.

The Syrian army’s trying to take the suburbs of Damascus from rebels – 2000 soldiers and 50 tanks and armoured vehicles are on the city streets.

Australian National University’s Centre for Arab and Islamic Studies Dr Matthew Gray joined me with more…

On Mark McGowan’s agenda is Sunday Trading and Uranium mining, the cost of living and high-powered vehicles.

So what else is on the table?

And how much of a shake up will our state receive?

State Labor leader Mark McGowan joined Ben Ainslie on Morning Mag for a look at all that and more.

These proposed Piracy laws prompted Wikipedia and other sites to ‘go dark’ for a day in protest, claiming they threatened freedom of information on the net.

It seems these concerns were very real.

File sharing website MegaUpload has been caught by the long arm of the American law.

It’s all a very complex issue.

Aria Glorie untangles the web…

This marks the end of over 20 years on the front bench of WA labor, and Ripper has announced that he will see out the rest of his term on the back bench and retire from politics at the next election.

Caitlin Nienaber spoke to Eric Ripper exclusively on RTRFM for the final time as leader of the WA State Labor Party.

Although not enough to stop him going on holiday…

Many of his party are backing a push to have Ripper step down; one insider telling the Australian that around twenty four of the thirty seven MPs want a change in leadership.

Stacy Gougoulis pondered Eric Ripper’s future with Curtin University Adjunct Professor and political analyst Harry Phillips.

Ben Ainslie spoke to local activist and blogger Phil Airey before he left to America to take part in the protests.

Now Phil’s back – he went, he blogged, he marched. He got into trouble and he saw terrible things.

He shared his stories about the Occupy movement in America, and where it’s heading…

North Korean leader Kim Jong-il has passed away.

A teary presenter, dressed in black, on national television, announced his death.

His son, Kim Jong-un is in the process of taking over from his father.

So, where to from here on the volatile peninsula?

Curtin University of Technology Strategic affairs analyst and Lecturer in International Relations and National Security Alexey Muraviev joins me…

Police Commissioner Carl O’Callaghan announced yesterday that a 3-month trial of the Operation will take place. He says that children are committing crimes at a younger age.

Caitlin Nienaber speaks with WA’s Commissioner for Children and Young People, Michelle Scott, about who these kids are and where their parents are in all of this…

Luke Simpkins carried out an unofficial survey in his electorate of Cowan and claims most meat at major chains is killed under Halal conditions.

It’s caused concern.

Immigration Minister Chris Bowen says Mr Simpkins is not promoting harmony and understanding between religions, something all members of Parliament should do.

And the general public’s taken to social media in droves – some scathing, some satirical.

Ben Ainslie spoke to Luke Simpkins on Morning Magazine.

By now the video for grass-roots advocacy group GetUp’s pro-same-sex marriage campaign may have been seen by every human with a computer.

It certainly should be.

It’s called ‘It’s Time’ and it was directed by local film-maker Stephen McCallum.

Peter Barr spoke to Stephen on Breakfast.

It was there he first met the spirited Afghan youth who would inspire him and change the course of his life.

Abandoning his medical practice in Singapore, Teck Young Wee travelled to Afghanistan itself for the first time in 2004, learning the language and living and working among its people – not as a doctor, but as a peace activist dedicated to building bridges between the bitterly divided ethnic communities of the war-torn country – and exploring ways that the neglected voices of the Afghan war – the Afghan people themselves, and in particular Afghan youth – could be heard by the wider world.

Given the name Dr Hakim, he is now the coordinator of the Afghan Youth Peace Volunteers.

He was recently in Australia on a speaking tour alongside the renowned American peace campaigner Kathy Kelly – Alex Whisson and Ray Grenfell of the Indymedia team had the chance to catch up with him…

He’s announced US Marines will be deployed to a permanent Naval base in Darwin and he’s discussed future economic and strategic ties with the Prime Minister.

What are the ties that bind? How strong are they? Will Obama call Julia in the morning?

crikey.com Political Correspondent, Bernard Keane, joined Bren McGurk on Morning Magazine to look at Obama in Australia.

Julia Gillard’s planning to overturn long-standing party policy that allows uranium to be sold only to nations signed up to the nuclear non-proliferation treaty.

India is not a signatory to the treaty yet Gillard considers them a potential customer.
The economic benefits outweigh that concern, it seems.

Greens Senator Scott Ludlam’s very concerned.

Johnny Hopper caught up with him on Morning Magazine.

The WA State Government is refusing to bring WA’s safety laws into line. Following a death of yet another worker in Picton over the weekend, Union’s WA are calling for stronger workplace laws in an effort to reduce the 21 workers killed on average each year in our state.

Stacey spoke with ACTU President Jed Kearney and asked why the government was holding out on this issue.

Stacy Gougoulis is joined by sex worker Miss London, to discuss what impact this may have on the sex industry.

With CHOGM arriving in Perth, it seems that people don’t really know what the Commonwealth does or why member states spend money to support it.

The Royal Commonwealth Society (RCS) is an education charity working to promote international understanding through the vehicle of the modern commonwealth.

A couple of years ago, they held the Commonwealth Conversation, the largest ever public consultation on the future of the Commonwealth and the subsequent report called on the Commonwealth to implement bold changes and prove its worth as an association.

Chair of the RCS Peter Kelner joined Bren at the Parmilia earlier today.