---
title: "The State"
description: "Western Australia, in full."
source: "https://thestate.au/"
markdown: "https://thestate.au/index.md"
---

# The State

[![The cover of Volcanic Winter, a novel by Mark Rutherford.](<https://thestate.au/media/volcanic-winter/w480.webp>)](<https://thestate.au/volcanic-winter>)

## [Volcanic Winter, by Mark Rutherford](<https://thestate.au/volcanic-winter>)

— When a plan to combat climate change threatens life on Earth, one man has seven days to stop it.

[markrutherfordwrites.com](<https://thestate.au/go/house_state_volcanicwinter>)

## [Advertise in The State](<https://thestate.au/advertise-with-us>)

— A directory entry runs for thirty days from $19 including GST, goes live once it is approved, and stays on the site afterwards at a decaying position rather than vanishing. You set the amount and you can change it whenever you like.

[mafia.net.au](<https://thestate.au/go/house_state_advertise>)

Community

## [Perth Marriage Office](<https://thestate.au/marriage-office-perth>)

— An affordable registry-style marriage service in Perth and Fremantle for couples who want the marriage and not the production.

[themarriageoffice.au](<https://thestate.au/go/house_state_mo_perth>)

Business

## [The Internet, by Josh Withers](<https://thestate.au/the-internet-by-josh-withers>)

— A web development studio building websites for small Australian service businesses that need a modern site: fast, plainly written, and built to be found and quoted by search and answer engines as readily as by a person.

[theinternet.com.au](<https://thestate.au/go/house_state_theinternet>)

## [Perth Wedding Directory](<https://thestate.au/perth-wedding-directory>)

— Wedding businesses working Perth, Fremantle, the Swan Valley and down through the South West, listed by category with the area each one covers.

[perthwedding.directory](<https://thestate.au/go/house_state_promo_pewd>)

Business

## [Sydney, properly lived in](<https://thestate.au/sydney-post>)

— Sydney Post covers food, culture, homes, health, shopping, weekends, local business and what is on around the city, with useful listings alongside the reading.

[sydneypost.com.au](<https://thestate.au/go/house_state_promo_sydpost>)

Notices

## [Funeral Celebrants](<https://thestate.au/funeral-celebrants>)

— A register of funeral and memorial celebrants working across Australia, listed by state, so a family arranging a service can find someone close by without a search.

[funeralcelebrant.au](<https://thestate.au/go/house_state_promo_funeral>)

Business

## [Local news, tuned to where you live](<https://thestate.au/the-radio>)

— The Radio files Sydney and New South Wales by the region a reader actually lives in: from Bondi, the Inner West and the North Shore to the Hunter, Illawarra and inland NSW.

[theradio.au](<https://thestate.au/go/house_state_promo_radio>)

## [The Apple Nation](<https://thestate.au/the-apple-nation>)

— An independent guide to living with Apple gear, and a register of the people who fix, sell, support and build for it. Not affiliated with Apple Inc.

[theapplenation.com](<https://thestate.au/go/house_state_promo_applenation>)

Business

## [Diploma](<https://thestate.au/diploma>)

— Australian training and the people who deliver it: registered training organisations, VET providers and professional-development bodies, listed by the field each course leads into.

[diploma.au](<https://thestate.au/go/house_state_promo_diploma>)

## [Someone who will actually turn up](<https://thestate.au/finds>)

— Finds lists Australian trades and home services — builders, electricians, plumbers, carpenters, painters, roofers and landscapers — organised by the job you need done rather than by the trade name.

[finds.au](<https://thestate.au/go/house_state_promo_finds>)

Culture

## [Listen](<https://thestate.au/listen>)

— Australian podcasts sorted by what they are actually about — news, true crime, comedy, sport, business, history — with a plain description of each and a link to where it plays.

[listen.net.au](<https://thestate.au/go/house_state_promo_listen>)

Business

## [The Best](<https://thestate.au/the-best>)

— A short list, by field: Australian operators who are among the best at what they do, filed by trade rather than by suburb.

[thebest.au](<https://thestate.au/go/house_state_promo_best>)

Business

## [ANSETT](<https://thestate.au/ansett>)

— Australia's national guide to services, entertainment, travel and tourism: the operators, venues, practitioners and trades worth the trip, listed by what they do and where they do it.

[ansett.com.au](<https://thestate.au/go/house_state_promo_ansett>)