The Vietnamese boat people monument of gratitude was opened Sunday at Wade Street Reserve in Perth. The tale of the work’s progress is eerily similar to that faced by today’s asylum seekers: Its first two attempts to land, at Weld Square and then Robertson Park, were both rejected before Wade Street Reserve was finally deemed…

With the first winter now gone since the Hyde Park lakes restoration, local environmental consultant Andrew Del Marco rates the outcome of the project an eight out of 10. “They’ve made a good compromise between being true to the park, they’ve started to address the water quality issue, and they’ve done it for a pretty…

Vincent council’s valuable collection of “highly significant” historic bottles will be handed to the WA museum instead of being split up and sold off to private collectors. Some 3337 glass, ceramic and stoneware bottles, jars and vases were recovered from the old Perth and Fremantle Bottle Exchange Company site in 2001. The company operated from…

As promised the Mary Street Bakery has replaced a mural that it painted over. The original work by local artists Konfucius, Destroy and Idle was painted over when new owners took over the old Soto Espresso building. “It’s just not going to work with what we’re doing there,” one of the new owners Paul Aron…

The public artwork proposed for the controversial Albert North Perth office/unit development is proving just as contentious as the building itself. Sixteen of 20 submissions about the project oppose the giant lamp artwork by Robin Yakinthou designed for installation next to the neighbouring school. “Sculpture is derivative and not acceptable, would prefer a tree,” one…

A facelift of Oxford Street reserve will be shelved until a cheaper option can be found. Vincent council had planned to spend about $1 million on the Leederville park’s revamp but the cheapest tender, from Earthcare Landscapes, clocked in at $1.33 million. The council considered ponying up the extra $300,000 but at the eleventh hour…

TARTS, Northbridge by JENNY D’ANGER: How to have a 15-minute orgasm using nothing but an apple assaulted my eyes during a Google search for the name of a local raw food company. I passed on the notion and instead rang Tarts Cafe, where staff reminded me the company I was looking for was called Rawgasm…