City Farm has sacked its manager and seven staff have walked after being handed new contracts with heavily reduced hours. Cliff Morris, CEO of Men of the Trees—the organisation the […]

Valuable urban art at Perth City Farm is in danger of being lost says a local art group whose protests have—temporarily at least—halted the destruction of an 18-year-old mural. City […]

Human rights lawyer Julian Burnside is in Perth to propose an alternative to the major parties’ “cruel” refugee policies. “We seem troubled by people drowning at sea trying to reach […]

A young activist has taken her own life a week before a marriage equality rally she’d helped organise. Equal Love WA co-convenor Amber Maxwell, 20, died Saturday August 24 at […]

A 6WD amphibious vehicle will be used to fight mozzies plaguing Maylands foreshore. Bayswater city council will shell out $30,920 to buy and ship the all-terrain vehicle from Queensland. The […]

Installing full-scale models of trams in the Hay Street Mall has paid off for Perth city council, with emails flooding in. The PCC opposes the Barnett government’s plan to run […]

Mt Hawthorn local Emma Cole says she’s “really gutted not to have a say” over a now-approved 22-unit development on Oxford Street. Residents fear the Psaros project will fill their […]

It could be the worst typo of the campaign so far. Perth federal Liberal candidate Darryl Moore is pledging $300,000 for CCTV in local crime hot-spots, including “Seventh Avenue” in […]

The Liberals might be locked in an all-out battle to win the federal seat of Perth but that didn’t stop Morley state MP Ian Britza from refusing Darryl Moore’s request […]

STORIES by STEPHEN POLLOCK: Perth Liberal MP Eleni Evangel has described as “madness” the Barnett government’s desire to split Vincent in two. Ms Evangel this week delivered a 507-signature petition […]