Emma Young, WAtoday

Emma Young

WAtoday

Perth, WA, Australia

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Past:
  • WAtoday
  • The Sydney Morning Herald
  • Brisbane Times
  • Canberra Times
  • Essential Kids
  • The Age

Past articles by Emma:

West Australian-found Buddha is a Ming Dynasty treasure: Antiques Roadshow

The finders, two metal-detecting enthusiasts from Shark Bay on the north-west coast, will auction their “world treasure” with a reserve price of $100,000. → Read More

We can still act on plastic: 18 tips and tricks to use right now

We can’t afford to bury our heads in the sand. Here are some easy, cheap and practical ways you can curb even the most rampant plastic consumption habit. → Read More

Matic Transport worker dies in Bibra Lake, WorkSafe investigates

WorkSafe WA Commissioner Darren Kavanagh said any work-related death was a tragedy, and relayed his sincere condolences to the man’s family and colleagues. → Read More

Suburban cafe sells $100 cup of coffee – and it’s not the first time

Alessandro Carciotto has been working with coffee his whole life, and he is deadly serious about it. In fact, the only people more serious are his customers. → Read More

Perth, why can’t you provide apartments families want to live in?

We have lived in apartments before. We now live in a tiny villa with a toddler. We need to upsize and were considering apartments. But they don’t consider us. → Read More

Perth’s pub playground boom: social benefit or smart sales ploy?

Some of Perth and Fremantle’s most recognisable historic buildings are getting decidedly modern fit-outs and parents are signalling wholehearted approval. → Read More

Perth, it’s time to interrogate this designer dog madness

The Perth dog markets are out of control. Before people go falling in love with that fluffy little face, they need to ask themselves some harder questions. → Read More

I researched Perth school choices for six weeks. Here’s what I learned

Six weeks ago I committed to make public my personal research process about how to select a school for my son. I really wish my findings had been different. → Read More

WA government bans plastic bags but turns a blind eye to its biggest landfill source

WAtoday has uncovered an example of the obscure, contradictory reporting that self-regulating ‘recyclers’ feed regulators and the public, often with no questions asked. → Read More

A year on from the destruction at Juukan, could it happen again?

What are the laws and agreements that are meant to protect Indigenous heritage? How can they be improved? And are laws enough? → Read More

It stores pollution 30 times faster than forest. What is blue carbon?

Shy dugongs, sea turtles and ancient, rocky microbes are all found among our seagrasses and mangroves. But why are politicians interested in these ocean meadows now? → Read More

‘Black water’: The three Australian sites that are ground zero for climate change

Over the past 10 years, each Australia’s three most important marine sites has seen a catastrophe. And recent wild weather signals history repeating. → Read More

Promise of answers amid revelation doctors were off sick when Aishwarya died

Multiple doctors were off sick at the time the little girl was dying – but authorities have warned against leaping to conclusions about what caused her death. → Read More

Perth hospitals ‘face challenges’, Minister says after girl’s death in ED

The minister has been under fire over months of escalating reports of rocketing ambulance ramping and doctors warning that a tragedy was only a matter of time. → Read More

Karrinyup locals flood city chambers furious at 24-storey apartment tower plan

Planners say CBD skyscraper height is appropriate for a major activity centre. Locals say not – and add that the activity centre plan hasn’t even been done. → Read More

WA home build handouts caused costs, sprawl to surge: industry

Architects say the stimulus encouraged sprawl and caused costs to skyrocket; the Greens called it a wasted opportunity and renewed calls for a Perth urban boundary. → Read More

Gas job losses during pandemic hit WA hardest, think tank claims

Perth-based Woodside rejects the blame for the national job loss figures, but questions remain over the role gas plays in the nation’s economy and workforce. → Read More

‘Policy vacuum’: Three decades, three costly plans dumped for prime Perth land

There have been three costly plans reach advanced stages for this large, prime land parcel in Perth’s northern suburbs, but governments can’t seem to finish them. → Read More

FMG, Stokes-backed projects hushed through as WA distracted by lockdown: green groups

Appeals against the projects argued that significant new carbon pollution would cause climate change WA could no longer afford. But the government disagreed. → Read More

US-owned resource company goes for green light to frack the Kimberley

The government hasn’t finished enshrining the regulations to be placed on the fledgling fracking industry in this state, but resource companies are ready to go. → Read More