PROTECTING statues of colonial figures, keeping Australia Day on January 26 and “removing vagrants and beggars” from city streets are top priorities for Perth council candidate Michael Sutherland. He was the Liberal MP for Mt Lawley for two terms until he was ousted last year, and served as a Perth councillor and deputy lord mayor…

THERE are a few wins in the budget for Voiceland, but overall Perth MP John Carey says “there’s no sugar coating it…it is tough, but I think it’s fair, and the key issue is reducing the expense growth of government agencies and government itself”. The budget’s been hammered by the opposition for its new taxes…

PRO-development group Future Bayswater is concerned the Bayswater town centre structure plan is half-hearted and will not enliven the area. FB member Paul Shanahan says the plan does not permit enough building density and the budget is too small to transform the city centre and encourage people to live there. He says the group are…

DOGS and their humans are invited down to Supreme Court Gardens this Sunday for Hounds Day Out to raise money for Greyhound Adoptions WA. The dogs get bred for racing but up to 500 greyhounds get put down every year in WA because they get injured, aren’t fast enough, don’t feel like racing, aren’t obedient…

AFTER years of campaigning and a few attempts by local councils, lightweight single-use plastic bags will be banned in WA from July next year. Fremantle was the first council to attempt a local ban in 2013, but it was blocked by the former Liberal state government. In June Vincent councillors voted “in principal” for a…

PERTH’S Uniting Church in the City has put beehives on the roof of its William Street building as part of its ongoing green push. Over the last year the church has installed the largest solar panel in the CBD on its rooftop, three 2000-litre water tanks to flush toilets in their buildings, and a rooftop…