Cocky comeback
RARE Carnaby’s black cockatoos have returned to Baigup Wetlands. The Baigup Wetlands Interest Group and Bayswater council have been working to pull out weeds and restore biodiversity at the wetlands’ […]
WA Day ultimatum
‘Pay $500,000 or we won’t come’ WA Day celebrations look like they’ll be held outside the WA capital after Perth city councillors decided against giving organisers the full funding they […]
Forced to cough up
A BAYSWATER smash repairer with a long record of breaches has been fined $18,000 for continuing to take money off customers despite not being licensed to fix their cars. Raymond […]
WA film makes a splash
A WA-made film is soon to get a wider screening after wowing audiences at its premiere last month. Shot entirely in Merredin, Greenfield is the tale of a man who […]
Heroes of history
A BOOK about the history of WA’s fire service and Murray Street’s Old Perth Fire Station launches this weekend, with 2021 marking 120 years since the station opened. “120 Years […]
On the home front
AUTHOR Melinda Tognini gives a talk this Friday April 23 on the people often left out of the story of Australia at war: The wives and families of the men […]
Cool Duke won hearts in the heat
THE late Prince Philip, Duke of Edinburgh, visited Perth on a number of occasions including in 1962 when he opened the VIIth British Empire and Commonwealth Games. The official opening […]
Bard’s hanging question
THE winner of the Fremantle Round House ballad competition has joined calls for the Swan River Colony’s first execution to be revisited, saying he doesn’t believe the hanged boy was […]
The BIG question for WACA members
PAUL COLLINS has been a WACA member since 1986 and is a former WACA board member. While there’s been a lot of focus on whether the WACA pool is a […]
WA’ s shameful record
THIS week marks 30 years since the release of the findings of the 1991 Royal Commission Into Indigenous Deaths in Custody. The Deaths in Custody Watch Committee was due to […]
