The article discusses in December 2012, Parity published its first ever Western Australian (WA) issue. It was, as its Introduction pointed out, ‘a bumper issue'. The WA Parity issue contained a detailed retrospective of homelessness service delivery in the decades prior to 2012 by two great stalwarts of WA homelessness policy in Genevieve Errey and Helen Miskell . It was an issue filled with optimism.