Yirra Yaakin calls ‘action!’
WHILE Aboriginal actors occasionally make it onto our TVs and movie screens, Aboriginal producers and directors on the other side of the camera are even more rare. Murray Street-based Yirra […]
WHILE Aboriginal actors occasionally make it onto our TVs and movie screens, Aboriginal producers and directors on the other side of the camera are even more rare. Murray Street-based Yirra […]
SCOUTING is booming in Perth, with so many kids desperate to sign up that Scouts WA is scrambling to find enough scout halls and volunteers. Subiaco has a four-year waiting […]
RESIDENTS face being slugged a 3.5 per cent rates rise if Bayswater council can’t recoup the $1.2 million it spent on the Barnett government’s aborted mergers process, a local councillor […]
A THIEF who hates the sound of children’s laughter has stolen one of the bronze Gumnut Baby sculptures from the CBD’s Stirling Gardens. The two sculptures were installed a decade […]
FEDERAL and state MPs are backing a residents’-led campaign calling on Bayswater council to fly Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander flags all year round. Currently the flags fly only during […]
ARTISTS across Perth have garages full of paintings, sculptures and other strange creations, all because they never get around to selling them. Mt Lawley painter Sioux Tempestt says many artists […]
LABOR’S Alannah MacTiernan (right) will hold a meeting on the NBN at Bassendean community centre on April 1—no, it’s not a joke. The federal MP is pushing for local suburbs […]
MOUNT HAWTHORN will have its own streets and laneways festival, following the runaway success of similar events in Beaufort and Angove Streets. Community organisation Mt Hawthorn Hub and Vincent city […]
SPORTING clubs in Bayswater who lease buildings on council land will now get free rubbish removal. Cr Alan Radford, who pushed for the move, says clubs will save more than $300 […]
THE dysfunctional Newcastle Street/Carr Place intersection has an upgrade on the cards to turn it into a mini piazza. Just near the busy Leedy hotel, the area’s a mess of […]