ANZ has closed its branch at Flinders Square in Yokine, leaving customers with a long commute if they need in-person banking. ANZ temporarily closed many branches across the country as a result of the coronavirus, but has since announced that some branches, like Yokine, will not reopen.  Labor MPs Simon Millman (Mt Lawley) and David…

STIRLING council is going ahead with plans for a plaza that’ll result in lost parking bays on the Mount Lawley leg of Beaufort Street. The council voted at the July 28 meeting to progress a streetscape improvement plan that includes a plaza at the carpark near Westpac.  The final design’s not set in stone but…

Eye-opening assessment revealed at CEO’S farewell Murray Jorgensen oversaw his last council meeting this week. PERTH city council CEO Murray Jorgensen leaves this week after just under two years in the job. Unlike the last two CEOs who were sacked before their contracts were up, Mr Jorgensen was always intended to be a short-term CEO…

POLICE want to identify a woman accused of pinning a car clamping contractor between two cars at a Bayswater carpark. Around 8.40am on Saturday July 11, a driver for Auto Clamp parked behind an illegally parked car in the privately-owned King William Street carpark and warned the driver to move on or get clamped. As…

SOMETIMES the only thing between a girl and a grand final dream is a good pair of boots, and the Mount Lawley/Inglewood Roos junior footy club is trying to bridge that gap with an exchange program. With kids often growing out of their boots before they’re really scuffed, the club started the el-cheapo exchange; giving…

THE hard waste currently gracing Vincent’s verges may be the last. Vincent council this week considered options to replace the annual roadside rubbish collection, with the quality of scavengable waste steadily dropping in recent years: Gumtree, Facebook marketplace and “Buy Nothing” groups have made decorating your house from roadside treasures a distant memory. Mayor Emma Cole…

ST PATRICK’S Anglican church in Mt Lawley was on point to raising more than $7,000 this week to help repair storm damage. The church held a Mediaeval Longtable Feast on July 24 where diners were treated  to the spectacle of historical combatants clashing in the aisles.  St Pat’s spent the Covid-lockdown providing hundreds of meals…

“CLOSE your eyes and just listen,” says Ron Bradfield Jnr, a saltwater Bardi man from the Kimberley region who now resides in Perth. ”Take time to hear people’s individual stories.” Storytelling has been part of Indigenous culture for over 65,000 years, which is why Northbridge’s Centre For Stories has organised The Future of Black Lives…