Governor … murderer? Electors banish Stirling STIRLING mayor Mark Irwin says changing the city’s name “has not been identified as a priority” after electors voted to ditch the former colonial governor’s name over his involvement in the Pinjarra massacre. On Monday at the annual meeting of electors, a vote was passed to rename the city…

INGLEWOOD developers could get more creative in backyards and along laneways under a plan from Stirling council to add “flexibility” to its heritage rules. At Tuesday’s planning and development committee, councillors voted on whether to ease restrictions in the Inglewood heritage protection area after consultation showed it was broadly supported. Currently all developments in the area have…

STIRLING council has knocked back the controversial redevelopment of the Karrinyup Shopping Centre as too big and too trafficky. Although it doesn’t have final say on whether the development will go ahead, the council can make a recommendation to the Development Assessment Panel, on which its representatives will be a minority voice, and will send…

AUSTRALIA should look to the lessons of past pandemics and use purpose-built quarantine facilities for international travellers, says an expert in the country’s historic maritime quarantine system. Ruth Johnson, who will be giving a talk on the Spanish flu’s impact on Western Australia at the Vincent Local History Centre on May 26, says authorities can…

CAROLINE PERKS will have her third crack at winning the federal seat of Perth and her fifth getting into higher office after securing Greens preselection for the next election. A climate change policy expert, Ms Perks scored the Greens’ best-ever result in Perth during the 2019 federal election when she landed 19 per cent. It was…

EAST Metropolitan MLC Donna Faragher says the McGowan government has taken too long to establish a working group to develop a master plan for Edith Cowan University’s Mt Lawley campus. Last week Mrs Faragher asked planning minister Rita Saffioti in Parliament why it had taken so long, given the announcement the McGowan government was planning…

STIRLING council’s waste coordinator Keith Rickman has been crowned this year’s “waste champion”, just in time for his retirement later this year. Mr Rickman has been at Stirling for almost 50 years, all of it in waste management. Despite starting  when there was just one metal bin for everything and the garbos hauled them into the…

WHATLEY CRESCENT is to be permanently closed to traffic between Hamilton and King William streets from June 11. The area, which was blocked for a while in January, will be closed for more works on Bayswater’s new train station.  It will eventually be rerouted to link with Beechboro Road South. Whatley’s shared path will be…

AFTER almost six years of uncertainty, the North Dianella Guides and Scouts look set to get a strong hold on their Morley Drive headquarters. The guides and scouts’ previous lease on their clubhouse ran out in June 2015, and since then they’ve been on a monthly arrangement while the council undertook a “global review of…