WA news LIVE: Man pulled from burning house in Mirrabooka​on August 6, 2025 at 11:41 pm

We’re on to the panel discussion portion of the UDIA breakfast now and the first question asked was: “Sausage rolls for breakfast — yes or no?”

Two were in support, and two not so much. A note for Crown next time, perhaps.

The discussion then moved on to the more serious topic of building affordable homes quicker.

Offsite executive chair Norm Roberts said modular construction was becoming more popular because it saved on costs and reduced the number of tradespeople needed.

He said, in theory, using the same number of tradespeople to build a modular home as a traditional home would have that home built 83 per cent faster.

“This solution … is delivering what the government and industry is demanding, and the people of WA is demanding — faster, cheaper, better,” Roberts said.

Keystart chief executive Mark Tomasz said modular housing allowed people to get on the property ladder and “realise the dream of homeownership”.

“Just a health warning, I’m going to make a Trump reference here, so brace yourselves,” he joked.

“But it really is a beautiful product, and the reason why it’s a beautiful product is this is opening up more access — particularly for regional WA.”

WAtoday is at a UDIA WA breakfast at Crown Perth this morning, where Housing Minister John Carey is addressing more than 250 people about housing supply across the state.

Carey said the state government was “putting everything on the table” to bolster that supply.

“WA is actually performing better than many other states in terms of our housing completions and approvals,” Carey said.

“But you can never draw a line in the sand and say our current policy settings are enough, you can always do better.”

Carey said some of his key priorities included driving more social and affordable housing, introducing the KeyStart reforms and “pushing through bureaucracy and regulatory approvals to unlock both infill and greenfield sites” like those in East Wanneroo.

“We will also continue to identify lazy surplus land as part of the rolling program of the housing diversity pipeline,” he said.

“I will be hosting a round table with land developers to look at further quick wins that we can make in the short term.”

Carey also announced the WA Planning Commission was working to simplify some of the residential design codes that guide housing development.

He said those codes were “layered and difficult to navigate, adding complexity and inefficiencies”.

Fire sprinklers saw a portion of Royal Perth Hospital evacuated overnight, with staff left to mop up and about eight patients moved to the emergency department waiting room.

The hospital said a code orange was issued as a precaution after the fire alarm went off at midnight.

WAtoday understands the sprinkler system was triggered in one of the hospital bathrooms.

The hospital waiting area and urgent care clinic were the only areas to be impacted, and while the disruption was minor, it reportedly took some time to clean up.

A man in his 60s has been pulled from his burning house in Mirrabooka after emergency services were called to the blaze in the early hours of Thursday.

Police and firefighters rushed to the scene at Otago Mews about 1am this morning, with several police being the first to arrive.

They soon learned a person was still inside the home, and smashed a window to get inside.

“The officers were able to find the man inside the burning home and extricate him from the premises,” a WA Police spokeswoman said.

The man was taken to Fiona Stanley Hospital for treatment of significant smoke inhalation, among other injuries.

The officers who saved him also suffered smoke inhalation, and one was also taken to hospital for treatment, the spokeswoman said.

Firefighters managed to extinguish the blaze, but the home was badly damaged.

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