Planet Perth

On Monday June 23, 1975, mother-of-three Shirley Finn lay slumped over the wheel of her white Dodge Phoenix in a glittering ball gown at the Royal Perth Golf Course. The well know socialite, brothel madam and nightclub operator was shot four times in an execution style killing just days before she was set to blow the whistle at a hearing on illicit dealings by a number of high profile Perth politi...

If you drive 70km north to Two Rocks on the fringes of Perth’s metropolitan area, you’ll be greeted by a ten-meter high statue of a grinning, trident wielding King Neptune. Though staring out to see the mythical roman god once overlooked the now abandoned Atlantis Marine Park. Opening to much fanfare in 1981, the park was part of WA billionaire Alan Bond’s plans to develop Yanchep into a flourishi...

In the early hours of April 27 1993, a young man named Gary Hayes stole an M113 armoured personnel carrier from Irwin Barracks and decided to take it on a joy ride through the Perth CBD. What followed was a story for the local history books, involving machine guns, ‘ninja police’ and a lot of tear gas. The event even inspired local punks Semtex 87 to release the C.I.B Demo CS EP, a raucous and thr...