Microplastic clogging the farthest reaches RESULTS from a groundbreaking research project measuring microplastic pollution in some of Earth’s remotest waters have started to filter in. The research was linked to famed Australian sailor Jon Sanders 11th solo circumnavigation of the globe earlier this year, as he collected daily water samples while sailing through the Indian, Atlantic, Pacific…

A FEARLESS Perth mum has helped raise $16,000 to tackle a cancer that stalks children and teens. Victoria O’Neill and a team of 11 other skydivers took advantage of some perfect weather recently to jump from a plane over Jurien to raise money for research into Sarcoma. The cancer affects bone and tissue, and is…

CHANGING the City of Stirling’s name has been shot down as “not a priority” in front of a packed and lively public gallery. A sometimes fiery public question time stretched out over an hour as people shared opposing, and sometimes confronting, viewpoints. As Yokine youth worker Lorna Graham-Geraghty pleaded for the council to consider the…

Photo Caption: A smoking ceremony prepares the Safe Night Space ahead of opening day. Photo supplied THE Safe Night Space for women has opened in the Rod Evans Centre and has seen 53 women take shelter there in its first eight days. Perth city council originally planned to open the space by late January or…

Helping to keep local stories in the limelight Photo Caption: Images of past people like this 1925 photo of Olive Mary Hale (nee Buck, marrying Rupert Hale a year later) have been preserved thanks to 20 years of local history awards.  STORIES and photos of Vincent’s past are sought for the 2021 instalment of the…

Photo Caption: Wikileaks founder Julian Assange ANOTHER human rights issue raised at Stirling’s electors’ general meeting has also hit a dead end, with councillors voting that helping Julian Assange was “outside the remit of the City of Stirling”.  Journalist Lucy Nicol moved the motion asking that the council endorsed a position that it “does not…

Photo Caption: Cr Elizabeth Re has been trying for years to get a women’s shed in Stirling. File photo DESPITE the overwhelming popularity of a women’s shed in Stirling, the local council has decided against setting up a permanent version for now. Councillor Elizabeth Re has been pushing for a women’s shed ever since the…

TWO petitions calling on Vincent council to keep collecting business bins have failed to sway the council to overturn a decision to axe the service. But in a small concession, micro businesses will be allowed to pay to switch over to the council’s three bin FOGO system. In September 2020 the council decided to stop…

Photo Caption: Fenian John Casey FREMANTLE’S Fenian Festival is back, and this year the key lecture will focus on a journalist and writer who blew the whistle on the appalling treatment of young women arriving at Fremantle, a little-known stain on the colony’s history. John Sarsfield Casey was arrested at 21-years-old for writing seditious letters to…

A MOVE to force Stirling council to reveal more about how it spends money has been voted down. At last month’s electors’ general meeting Roland Hadley from the Ewen Street Community Group moved that “any invoice over $10,000 has more than two words in the details”.  He’s made previous attempts at public question times to…