WITH Maylands foreshore facing a dire erosion crisis, federal environment and water minister Tanya Plibersek visited the river this week to announce a government commitment of $1.42 million.  In the past few years Bayswater council has struggled to come up with enough cash to fight the ongoing erosion exacerbated by climate change, water levels and…

“INUNDATED!” After raising concerns about the WACA’s lack of blokey urinals in the name of ‘inclusivity’, former councillor Paul Collins says he’s heard from a surge of cricket fans opposed to the controversial redevelopment. Mr Collins is now planning to raise the issue as an agenda item at next week’s WACA board meeting. He’s a…

OUTSPOKEN Stirling councillor Elizabeth Re has announced she’ll take on incumbent mayor Mark Irwin in a re-run of their 2019 rivalry. Cr Re previously ran for mayor against Mr Irwin in 2019, and has often found herself at odds with the majority of fellow councillors. She has sometimes extensively argued her corner to the audible…

FORMER state MP Alison Xamon has jumped into the race to be the new Vincent mayor. Ms Xamon was a Greens upper house MP for two separate terms from 2009 to 2013 and then 2017 to 2021, but says she’s running for mayor as an independent. Ms Xamon, a lawyer who’s worked in refugee and…

BAYSWATER council has backed down from a fight to keep tough new cat-control rules, fearing it will be held in contempt of WA Parliament.  Last year Bayswater tried to bring in a new local cat law including a clause stating “a cat shall not be in a public place unless the cat is, in the…

AMID campaigners urging cat containment to protect both wildlife and cats, the RSCPA WA announced this week they were seeking information on the deliberate drowning of a four-year-old tabby cat named Tiger Tim.  He was found on August 24 with a brick around his neck in the Swan River along Bayswater’s foreshore. “He went missing…

FOLLOWING widespread discontent Vincent council has steered away from a plan to partly block off a Beaufort Street side-road.  It may be a sign the council’s learned the lesson of not diverting traffic from one street onto others, following the vexed Alma Road/Leake Street traffic diversion saga that caused local uproar earlier this year by…

PERTH councillors have voted to sell a public laneway to a company owned by mining and media magnate Kerry Stokes, amid concerns from locals it might be closed off if sold. Comserv, a subsidiary of Mr Stokes’ company Australian Capital Equity, made an unsolicited bid earlier this year to buy 177sqm of West Perth’s Altona…

LOCAL enviro-minded group Sustainable Bayswater is inviting like-minded folks to their launch at Enviro House for a night of short films and snacks. The group used to be called Transition Town Bayswater and they’re holding a second launch as a ‘getting-to-know-you’ event with the new, more obvious moniker. “We’re still part of the global Transition…