ABOUT 2,000 people gathered in Forest Place on January 26 in support of changing the date of Australia Day – the biggest WA rally to date.  The “Invasion Day” event took […]

THE inner suburbs are being wooed with election cash from all sides, with a huge plan this week from the Liberal party to sink 500 metre of railway line to […]

DESIGNS for a hefty high-tech addition to the East Perth train station site have been released for public comment. The new seven-storey high “Metronet Public Transport Control Centre” will go […]

THEATRE-LOVING City of Perth councilmen have been asked to withdraw from the Perth Theatre Trust board to avoid giving it a testosterone overdose. The state government sets a target of […]

ELECTION promises have started flowing and urban bushland’s looking like a potential winner. Incumbent Mt Lawley Labor MP Simon Millman has announced the Friends of Coolbinia Bushland will get $5,000 […]

VETERANS advocate and former federal MP Graham Edwards is turning his attention to homelessness, becoming the first patron for East Perth’s St Bart’s.  Mr Edwards, a wounded Vietnam veteran, was […]

AS we rejoin SASHA WASLEY during her time as writer in residence with the National Trust, she’s just discovered a culinary delight during the colonial era was stewed bandicoot, and […]

THE second chapter of a grand sci-fi/jazz fusion epic in the making debuts at Ellington Jazz Club on February 16. The new band and multimedia project Sky Machine combines written […]

HOMELESSNESS advocate Mark Piggott has been recognised as Perth’s citizen of the year. Mr Piggott works at St Bart’s helping people work through their trauma to help get them back […]

Bah! Humbug! OF all the TV programmes I have not seen, the recently broadcast  SBS series on Inside Monaco, Inside Harrods, and, I seem to recall, Inside Some Other Inane Locality […]