A NEW community-led strategy to help protect the threatened Australian Fairy Tern was launched last week. The initiative brings together a network of conservation organisations, government agencies, councils and community groups to help protect fairy terns along the west coast. The Australian fairy tern is one of Australia’s smallest and rarest seabirds, measuring less than…

A MAD rush is afoot to get a locally designed tartan recognised by the Scottish Register of Tartans in time for January 25. Inglewood’s Craig Hollywood has been nominated in the local hero category of the Australian of the Year awards for his charity Short Back & Sidewalks, which gives free haircuts to homeless people and helps…

CITY trees are suffering in this heat with some losing 50 per cent of their canopy in recent sweltering weather. The CBD’s seen an unseasonal leaf drop especially from London Planes and Moreton Bay Figs.  At the peak of the leaf drop in December, Perth council staff were mechanically sweeping the leaves twice a night…

SKYWORKS will go ahead on January 26 with “Covid marshals” carrying out spot checks to ensure spectators are double vaccinated.  A City of Perth statement says: “With the safety of the WA community in mind and with current Covid advice from the WA government, all attendees to Skyworks 2022 must be double vaccinated.” There’ll be…

A SILENT auction fundraiser and exhibition of contemporary street art opens this week to help out four-year-old Isla Hewett and her family as she undergoes a long treatment plan for cancer. Isla was diagnosed with the fast-acting acute lymphoblastic leukemia in September 2020, the weekend of her second birthday.  The family’s faced financial stress along…

VINCENT community members should be aware that the Annual General Meeting of Electors will be held on February 2.   The AGM is a once a year opportunity for community members to raise issues and move motions that the council must consider if there is sufficient community support. Whilst there isn’t a great track record…

THE Maylands residents accused of damaging a verge tree outside their property say they believed Bayswater council had approved its brutal haircut. Council staff have been investigating the case and classed it “tree vandalism” in a report to councillors, saying it is “unknown at this stage whether the tree will recover, or ever regain the…

DRONES have been called into action in the latest wave of the war on mosquitoes. Mozzies have plagued Maylands in particular for years and Bayswater council’s tried everything from poisoning their larval water sources to patrolling the wetlands with amphibious all-terrain vehicles to get to breeding sites in tricky areas thick with mud and snakes. Now they’ve brought…

A SOCIAL enterprise  given the task of helping restore Australia’s international reputation as a tolerant and diverse mob is heading to Mt Lawley early next month to give locals a taste of WA’s multicultural talent. World Music Cafe is run through Multicultural Futures (formerly the Fremantle Multicultural Centre) and showcases the depth of talent in…

THE maid being manhandled in a Maylands mural has been replaced by a pizza. Local resident June Winsome Smith had complained one of the scenes on a new mural at Rifo’s cafe was inspired by the 1500s sculpture Abduction of a Sabine Women, a reference to one of Rome’s founding myths when Roman men captured…