Tim Kucera News Today

OPINION- Gingerbread house decorating was never a big thing in our house growing up. I always looked forward to the holidays and Christmas, decorating our tree and helping my dad with festive colorful lights. I think one of my most treasured memory of Christmas with the family is one year when we spent an entire afternoon watching the Cowboys play the Redskins on the big screen TV, while my mom prepared food and went about domestic chores and we got on top of the roof to string up lights.

It's hardly unusual for hefty figures to be thrown around high above Perth's St Georges Terrace, but it's another matter altogether when it's taking place in Western Australia's Industrial Relations Commission, writes state political reporter Keane Bourke.