THE vision of a pedestrian paradise around Elizabeth Quay is set to suffer a further blow with another car-laden development in the pipeline. The 54-storey tower will have 168 units, 24 office floors, and an upper level restaurant, bar and rooftop pool. It will also have a lot of parking bays.  When the Barnett government…

A PROPOSAL for an extra nine roundabouts in North Perth has walkers and bike riders fearing it’ll end in tragedy. Nine intersections on Vincent Street between Fitzgerald and William Streets are under consideration for a Main Roads “mini roundabouts” pilot project. They are meant to make driving safer as vehicle collisions happen at glancing angles instead…

PERTH state Labor MP John Carey has been promoted to Mark McGowan’s Cabinet, taking on the housing and local government portfolios. “I’m deeply honoured,” the newly-minted minister said. “Everything I’ve done to date in my role as MP, I’ve never taken the position of elected office for granted. “My dad once said ‘one day you’re…

THE City of Vincent Local History Centre brings us this look back at a time when Leederville was a manufacturing powerhouse, focusing on the Golden West Aerated Water Company and explaining the inspiration behind Carr Place’s curious bubbled building. MUCH has been made recently of Australia pivoting back to local manufacturing in a post-Covid world.…

BLOOD platelets spoil quicker than milk so the Perth CBD Blood Donor Centre is calling for an 300 extra donors over the coming long weekend. Blood is especially needed for cancer patients going through chemotherapy and to meet an expected increase in road trauma. On a typical Easter weekend admission rates start to climb on…

FOLLOWING a sell-out Perth Festival oral history performance exploring a massacre of Whadjuk Noongars at Galup (Lake Monger), elders are calling for a memorial at the site and the story to be told in schools. Galup, the Noongar name for the area and the title of the performance, explored the story of a disputed massacre as it…

DERELICT for years, the old Midway Taxi rank site at 387 Oxford Street has sold for $9.1 million. It was off the market for 35 years, owned by the Midway Taxi Management since 1985, and vacant for most of the past decade.  The site is currently only used by an occasional group of skaters for moody…

ONE final bulk rubbish verge collection is scheduled in Vincent during July. Both treasured and reviled, the yearly tradition of a month-long scavenger hunt is being phased out after too many complaints about people dumping garbage weeks before pickup time, poorly behaved trash-pickers, and out-of-towners swinging by to add their non-Vincent garbage to local piles.…

Artists do it without ‘dirty’ money A NEW arts festival Brink has emerged promising to treat artists fairly and to challenge Fringe World’s acceptance of fossil fuel cash. In recent years some artists have been growing increasingly uncomfortable with Fringe’s major sponsor being Woodside, a fossil fuel company that’s also been criticised for its handling…