Jewish comments ‘clumsy’ LIBERAL leader Mike Nahan has accused WA Labor of being anti-Israel in an escalating row with Mt Lawley MP Simon Millman. In last week’s Voice Mr Millman claimed antisemitism was rife in the WA Liberal party after it emerged  Upper House MLC Jim Chown had described the Chinese as “the Jews of…

GROUND has been broken on the first big apartment project in Bayswater to take advantage of the Metronet rollout. After more than three years wending through the planning approval process, One Foyle Road was the first major block of this scale to be approved under the city’s town centre structure plan. But it’s the block…

AUSTRALIA POST will be getting a stern letter from Bayswater council’s access and inclusion committee because it keeps sending residents hither and thither to find undelivered parcels. Parcels bound for Maylands residents are ending up at Inglewood, Bassendean and even Malaga post offices. Bayswater councillor Elli Petersen-Pik says no one’s complaining about the customer service…

VINCE CONNELLY has won a tight gender-fuelled race to become the Liberal candidate for Stirling at the upcoming federal election. The former army officer pipped Michelle Sutherland by just two votes at last Saturday’s pre-selection meeting (February 23). High-profile candidate Joanne Quinn was a favourite in the lead-up, but could only muster four votes and…

THERE was a big turnout for the debut Maylands Laneway Festival last Saturday (February 23), but many attendees were left saying it needed more stuff to do. Bayswater council asked attendees for feedback and about half the people posting on the event’s Facebook page were disappointed. One person said that it took them just 10…

After a two-year delay the notorious Stirling Towers in Highgate will finally be demolished and replaced with contemporary mixed housing. The department of communities first mooted redeveloping the public housing site in 2014, and all the residents were relocated years ago. Early last year the department was in contract negotiations with a preferred partner, but…

A NEW pedestrian crossing planned for outside Beatty Park will help residents walk between the north and south of Vincent. When he was Vincent mayor, now-Perth MP John Carey was contacted by lots of parents living south of Vincent Street, who felt unsafe crossing the street to get to the pool and park. They said…

BAYSWATER council is set to hand over the running of Mertome Village to private aged care operator Fresh Fields. The ageing aged care facility on Winnifred Road has been in need of redevelopment for years, and in 2016 Bayswater council voted to sell the Village to an aged care operator for redevelopment and to lease…