Perth Voice Interactive

UWA has completed a study into the ailing Baigup Wetlands, an acid-sulphate-ridden and heavily saline area south of Kelvin Street.  Bayswater city council brought in the uni to work out the root causes of the problem and now consultants GHD have come up with ideas of where to go next. Their recommendations are being put forward at an open forum at Bayswater civic centre February 23 at 6pm, RSVP to the city’s environment coordinator at jeremy.maher@bayswater.wa.gov.au

PERTH city council has installed a $175,000 pop-up urinal in Northbridge near Russell Square. The first of its kind in Australia, the device disappears underground during the day then springs out at night with space for three people to have a wee, the intention being to cut down on public urination. The announcement came under fire from many a Facebook feminist complaining such money had been spent on something that only benefited men. However many complaints missed the fact there’s actually an auto-loo across the road, and the pop-up urinal can take three at a time out of that line to leave the loo more free for women. And given that during the trials the temporary street urinals collected about 1000 litres a month, which would probably otherwise have soaked through alleyways and front yards, local traders probably aren’t too worried about the whines of online femmos.

JACOB’S LADDER will be closed later this month—temporarily (ahem). While some nearby neighbours would sure like to see it shut for good to stop the huffing, puffing and grunting of some of its unfit exercisers, Perth city council is just shutting it down temporarily for a safety inspection. It’s shutting February 22, possibly for “an extended period, pending results of the structural survey”.

PERTH folk are apparently very, very keen for a new live performance venue, with 2500 individual submissions to the public interest assessment survey for the Sewing Room planned for Wolfe Lane. With the place masterminded by Martin Black and Patrick Coward of the Margaret River Chocolate Factory, the final hurdle is getting the, the survey’s part of the liquor licensing application which needs to prove to the liquor department that opening the place is in the public interest.