AFTER five years of being forced by the former federal Liberal government to hold citizenship ceremonies on Australia Day, Vincent council will ask the new Labor government if it can welcome new citizens on a “less disrespectful date”. Some Indigenous representatives have ceased attending January 26 citizenship ceremonies, and those that do seem increasingly uncomfortable…

THE future face of North Perth is to be decided this week with the Development Assessment Panel to rule on a proposed $80 million, 13-storey apartment block on Fitzgerald Street. Developer Celsius’ plan for two towers, 13 and 11 storeys, would occupy the block stretching from Raglan to Alma Road. Along with a huge number…

BARS and clubs in the Northbridge will be allowed to keep rocking at a “common-sense” noise level of 95 decibels, staving off a proposed rule that’d limit them to emitting a much-meeker 90 decibels.  The decibel scale is quirky and there’s a big difference between just five decibels, with 90dB being about as loud as…

NEW petrol stations woiuld be banned from opening in the vast majority of Vincent under proposed rules intended to safeguard public health.  Petrol stations aren’t allowed in residential areas and the proposal would ban new ones from ‘mixed use’ zones and town centres. New ones could only open on land zoned commercial, and only then…

THIS week the Vincent Local History Centre brings us the story of Susan Adelaide Casson, who 100 years ago founded an organisation to provide community care for psychiatric patients. After sitting on a government Board of Visitors to Claremont Hospital, Susan Casson became convinced there was a need for discharge and community rehabilitation of patients,…

A BID to rename Northbridge Piazza as “Pride Piazza” has been shot down by a majority of Perth councillors. Pride WA, which has organised Pride rallies and festivals since 1990, moved its headquarters into the building by the piazza in November this year just in time for Pride Month festivities. The area was temporarily dubbed…

FOUR more suburbs in Vincent will get underground power, marking the complete undergrounding of power lines in residential streets and town centres by 2028. In May the council signed a memorandum of understanding with Western Power to partly cover the cost to sink power lines in three areas where tired out power poles needed replacing…