ANOTHER spat has broken out between the City of Perth and the McGowan government after local government minister John Carey approved a rates exemption for the WACA. Last year premier Mark McGowan said the council had “failed the local community” after it backed out of an agreement to fund a public swimming pool as part…

AN arts project about Lake Monger’s buried colonial history has won a prestigious award for its outstanding contribution truth-telling in Western Australia. The Galup art project picked up the History Council of WA award at the state library on Tuesday. Lake Monger was a traditional Noongar camping and meeting place known as Galup (Kaarlup) –…

A STATUE of pioneering politician Edith Cowan, gifted to the City of Perth, has been approved for the front of Anzac House on St George’s Terrace. The $245,000 commemoration of Australia’s first female parliamentarian was paid for by councillor Sandy Anghie and her husband Michael, a CEO at APM Group and former director of the…

A WA government plan to sell off a strip of land along East Parade and Guildford Road in Mount Lawley has prompted fears a long-awaited fix for the dangerous intersection could be in jeopardy. There are 32 lots running either side of the intersection that are mostly grass and trees. The state government is selling…

LIAM GOBBERT has been voted in as depty lord mayor of the City of Perth. At Tuesday night’s council meeting Cr Gobbert secured five of the nine votes to take over the position from Cr Di Bain, who had completed her prescribed 12 months. Cr Gobbert had been nominted by Cr Rebecca Gordon, a manager at…

VINCENT council is hoping to work with state government agencies to install charging points for electric vehicles on roadside verges when Vincent’s power goes underground. While council CEO David MacLennan says the response from Western Power and Synergy to a proposed trial has so far been a “blanket ‘no’”, the city hadn’t given up and was…

IN this week’s tales from the past we have a collaboration with the folks from Vincent Local History Centre, telling of the Plunkett family’s long history in building the housing stock through Highgate and surrounds. It offers a snapshot of how people made do in tents waiting for their house to be built, a flow-on…