A BAYSWATER recycler has remained on a list of the WA Local Government Association’s “preferred suppliers” despite a harrowing history of workplace safety breaches, which included the death of a worker. Earlier this month Resource Recovery Solutions was hit with a record $500,000 fine for “gross negligence” over a 2016 incident where a worker’s arm was severed…

ST PATRICK’S Community Centre has launched the second phase of its “doorstep dinners” initiative. The program involves local businesses hit hard by Covid-19 providing meals for vulnerable members of the Freo community.  Over the next three months, the St Pat’s team will deliver over 100 meals a night to those in need, prepared by local…

PROMINENT Beaufort Street traders are fuming, claiming they’ve been left out of the latest consultation over a plan that could remove parking bays around Mount Lawley. Stirling council is planning a piazza for the carpark at 679 Beaufort Street which will see more bays lost, and this week’s committee meeting also discussed a new “Parking Management Plan”…

We are NOT all in this together SINCE the devastating COVID19 virus lockdown in early April we’ve been assailed by the togetherness mantra/‘chantra’.  Health-wise yes, we get it. But economically NO! We are NOT all in this together’. Only half of us are. The rest are still living high on the hog, just as the federal…

HISTORY in the making will be a big focus at this year’s Vincent Local History Awards, with a call for entries that document the impact of Covid-19 and restrictions on the community. Along with entries on historic people, places or events in Vincent, the Local History Centre is hoping to see modern day documentation of…

ABOUT 50 protesters gathered at Fiona Stanley Hospital on Monday night demanding a Tamil refugee and her family be returned to their home in Biloela, Queensland.  Priya Murugappan had been detained on Christmas Island with her husband Nades and two children since 2019 but was transferred to Perth last week after complaining about severe abdominal…

BUSINESSES will have to prove their bona fides before voting in this year’s Perth council elections. Businesses, which can get two votes, play a huge role in the capital city contest where there are low resident numbers, but the recent state inquiry into the council heard allegations of “sham leases” to rig elections. Not checked…

CHICKENS have come back to roost at Roxy Lane Community Garden in Maylands, after they were temporarily re-homed due to an anonymous complaint. A few months ago someone complained to the council that the chicken enclosure touched the side of the garden’s property, while the city’s chicken-keeping rules require the enclosure to be free-standing.  The…

FORMER Nightline host Graham Maybury is back behind the microphone for the first time in six years in the podcast Demystifying Aged Care. Covering topics like dementia, aged care living and the financial challenges of retirement, each 30-minute episode features Mr Maybury in conversation with independent experts and older West Australians and their families. “Doing…