ABC Perth

ABC Perth broadcasts on 720 AM under the call sign 6WF - one of the oldest in the country, on air since 1924, when it began as the station of Westralian Farmers - the WF in the call letters - the farming cooperative that put radio on the air in the west a century ago. Today it is the local station of the Australian Broadcasting Corporation for Perth and Western Australia: breakfast and morning talk, local and national news, and the conversation of the west.

WA is a state apart - two hours behind the east coast, with an economy built on mining and a population that watches Canberra with suspicion - and 720 reflects that independence of mind. From the resources boom to the local football, the station is where Perth talks to itself. The live online stream carries it to listeners anywhere, useful in a state that spans a third of the continent.