Too much loving for Facebook in MP’s post A GAY MP has been censored by Facebook after sharing an image of LGBTQI+ couples embracing. Maylands MP Lisa Baker was highlighting International Day Against Homophobia, Biphobia & Transphobia on May 17 with a poster which was headlined “Celebrate the power of love” and had a caption…

A LACK of footpaths, fast road speeds, and super-wide intersections are preventing students from walking to school according to Transition Town Bayswater. The community organisation ran walk and talk events over the past two weekends to map out ways to make safer routes to Maylands Peninsula Primary school. TTB volunteer Charlotte Dudley says the key…

THE Bayswater bridge continues to haunt motorists, but this time there was no fault by the motorist when a panel from the replacement bridge’s construction fell and hit a car on Monday.  Two people were in the car and one was taken to hospital suffering shock. The new bridge is being built above the old…

BAYSWATER’S trees are dying at an alarming rate and only 20 per cent are being replaced due to a controversial policy shift.  This financial year 132 street trees died from heat, thirst, age or poor soil. Under Bayswater’s old verge tree policy, dead trees were automatically replaced unless a homeowner objected, but many verges remain…

THE first generation of Kings Park Special bottlebrushes are dying off. A cultivated variety of Callistemon developed through breeding, the KPS was an early success story in plant development for Kings Park and Botanic Garden.  The original seedling was of “unknown origin”, cultivated into its current form by the park’s first nurseryman Ernst Wittwer, a…

LONGSTANDING plans to build a nationally-significant Aboriginal Cultural Centre in Perth got a positive sign this week with federal Labor pledging $50 million towards it they win office. The Morrison government pitched in $2 million for planning the centre as part of the Perth City Deal, and the McGowan state government committed $52m towards it…