Diary find AN author researching the colourful life of his great-grandfather has unearthed a previously unpublished poem by famed Australian poet, journalist and author Banjo Paterson. Simon Doyle’s ancestral biography […]

“THERE’S not a lot for us in it,” was Perth federal Labor MP Patrick Gorman’s review of the latest Morrison budget. Mr Gorman said there was a notable lack of […]

VINCENT council hopes to fix its communication issues with a new engagement framework. Following some notable recent instances where locals felt projects were roaring ahead without them, the council has […]

COVID has made for a tough year for charities and has also seen a surge in domestic violence, so charity Friends with Dignity is calling for donations to raise critical […]

THE WA education department is under pressure to ban the Commonwealth Bank’s Dollarmites program from schools following a damning national report which found it had no educational value. Consumer group […]

SLOW points may be on the way for North Perth under a new Vincent council traffic-calming plan. However long-term traffic petitioners have already panned the initiative as making little sense.  […]

AS fast as Bayswater council can plant new trees, state government projects and private development just keeps tearing down older growth. Last planting season the council put in 50,000 tubestock […]

SIMON DOYLE recently published, along with co-author Jenny Mills, a biography of his great-grandfather George Barber, a doctor who served with the Fremantle Garrison before sailing off to run a […]

THIS week’s story from the Vincent Local History Centre looks at the now-demolished Brisbane Street Synagogue that was once the centre of Jewish life in WA. The LHC is also […]

MURDOCH UNIVERSITY’S Antimicrobial and Infectious Diseases Laboratory has made a breakthrough in monitoring bacteria using robotics that promises to slash medical costs and hospitals stays. Sam Abraham from the AMRID-Abraham […]