AFTER surprising St Georges Terrace with a group nude photoshoot at peak hour in March this year, East Perth photographer Lauren Crooke is launching an exhibition covering two years of her work with another nude shoot on opening night. Crooke’s work photographing nude women aims to encourage body positivity, and the voluntarily-nude shoots call into…

MOUNT LAWLEY Golf Club has paused a draft masterplan to remove 550 trees and widen its fairways, but is itching to get started on a scaled back project involving 63 tree removals. MLGC is a members-only golf course on public land that Stirling council leases to the club for $13,640 a year, lower than the…

A PLAN to protect city music venues from being shut down by noise complaints has left just about everyone unhappy. Some have complained the proposed noise ceiling is too loud for human health and others that it’ll kill Perth’s music scene by locking in a too-quiet limit. For more than three years the state government…

PERTH can’t do snow for Christmas, but it does have 100 tons of sand painstakingly carved into intricate Christmas scenes at Elizabeth Quay this month. Perth-based sand artist Jenny Rossen is internationally renowned for her sculptures, having won multiple world championship sandcastle events over the past 23 years. For the past month she’s led a…

MALE dolphins in the Swan River are forming “alliances”, teaming up with fellow fellas to woo potential mates. Murdoch University marine biologist Delphine Chabanne led the recently published study based on hundreds of sightings in the Swan Canning Riverpark since 2011.  By closely examining photos to match up dolphins’ unique spots, scars or other markings,…

AFTER a three-year freeze, fees in Perth council’s car bays will rise to claw back lost profit.  Meanwhile a council marketing campaign aimed at convincing the public its carparks are affordably priced has seemingly backfired. Across 2021/22 Perth council ran a carpark marketing campaign in the hope of getting more people to come to the…

HARRY HOFFMAN, a Holocaust survivor and philanthropist who developed much of the housing stock in Perth’s suburbs, died December 5, aged 92.  Dr Hoffman was born in 1929 in Dobove, Czechoslovakia. His family were taken to Auschwitz in May 1944.  He survived, but his mother and two sisters perished.  Dr Hoffman came to Australia in…

TODAY’S delve into the past from the Vincent Local History Centre features an interview with architecture graduate Dexter Wong, whose masters thesis maps out significant sites for Perth’s queer history across more than 120 years. LAST year during Pride month, the City of Vincent Local History Centre put the call out for photos, flyers and…