WITH their experiences often misrepresented or told by non-Aboriginal people, four First Nations photographers will share their stories firsthand in an exhibition of recent works at the Perth Centre of Photography. The “Exposure: New Voices in Australian Photography” project was started by PCP board member Glenn Iseger Pilkington, intending to make sure First Nations voices…

A 40KMH trial on local roads across southern Vincent only led to a one kilometre-per-hour drop in average speeds. Despite the modest impact, the council still wants to roll out 40kmh across all its local roads.  The council started the trial in 2019, and consultation with locals in September 2022 found 57 per cent of…

BASKETBALL would be impossible to play at nearly all outdoor courts if draft state noise guidelines were applied, Stirling mayor Mark Irwin warns. The WA Department of Water and Environmental Regulation has drafted guidelines on “minimising noise impact from outdoor community basketball facilities”.  The guidelines come after a series of suburban courts being shut down in…

WOMEN living homeless on Perth’s streets fear they’ll have no place to go if funding is cut off for the Safe Night Space in East Perth. Perth council is mulling over whether to stretch the budget to keep Safe Night Space going another 6-12 months. “We’d be lost without this place,” one woman sleeping in…

MANY ventures have come and gone on Oxford Street over the years, and this week historians from the Vincent Local History Centre archives delve into the many lives of the iconic 123 Oxford Street: from rowdy whippet club, upmarket makeover, to the colourful Greens & Co and beyond OXFORD STREET in Leederville has seen many…