HYDE PARK has been preserved in Lego form by two local Lego masters who spent two months creating the model. The pint-sized park project came from Vincent local history librarian Susanna Iuliano who put the call out for modellers to celebrate its 125th anniversary. WA Brick Society volunteers Chris McRae and Ryan Masters took up…

PERTH lord mayor Basil Zempilas says the state government’s 100-bed Boorloo Bidee Mia homelessness facility on Wellington Street was “perhaps … not fully thought out” and isn’t meeting a need for crisis accommodation. Speaking at a Parliamentary inquiry into homelessness services, Mr Zempilas said BBM took too long to set up, continues to operate below capacity, and…

A HOMELESSNESS support worker has urged Perth council to keep running the Safe Night Space for women beyond its two year trial. In May 2021 Perth council opened the SNS in the Rod Evans Centre on Hay Street to provide shelter and safety for women with the hopes it’d help the transition into permanent housing. …

Too much loving for Facebook in MP’s post A GAY MP has been censored by Facebook after sharing an image of LGBTQI+ couples embracing. Maylands MP Lisa Baker was highlighting International Day Against Homophobia, Biphobia & Transphobia on May 17 with a poster which was headlined “Celebrate the power of love” and had a caption…

A LACK of footpaths, fast road speeds, and super-wide intersections are preventing students from walking to school according to Transition Town Bayswater. The community organisation ran walk and talk events over the past two weekends to map out ways to make safer routes to Maylands Peninsula Primary school. TTB volunteer Charlotte Dudley says the key…

THE Bayswater bridge continues to haunt motorists, but this time there was no fault by the motorist when a panel from the replacement bridge’s construction fell and hit a car on Monday.  Two people were in the car and one was taken to hospital suffering shock. The new bridge is being built above the old…

BAYSWATER’S trees are dying at an alarming rate and only 20 per cent are being replaced due to a controversial policy shift.  This financial year 132 street trees died from heat, thirst, age or poor soil. Under Bayswater’s old verge tree policy, dead trees were automatically replaced unless a homeowner objected, but many verges remain…

THE first generation of Kings Park Special bottlebrushes are dying off. A cultivated variety of Callistemon developed through breeding, the KPS was an early success story in plant development for Kings Park and Botanic Garden.  The original seedling was of “unknown origin”, cultivated into its current form by the park’s first nurseryman Ernst Wittwer, a…

LONGSTANDING plans to build a nationally-significant Aboriginal Cultural Centre in Perth got a positive sign this week with federal Labor pledging $50 million towards it they win office. The Morrison government pitched in $2 million for planning the centre as part of the Perth City Deal, and the McGowan state government committed $52m towards it…

VINCENT businesses are unlikely to get any more rates freezes from their council to compensate for the privatisation of commercial waste collection. The City of Vincent pulled out of commercial waste collection in June last year, but softened the blow by offering landowners a $520 rates rebate, with promises of a review of the “financial and services…