PERTH council has refused to provide bins for homeless people living in Tent City, forcing them to live amongst mounds of rotting rubbish. Tent City resident Raymond said the council’s repeated knockback to requests for a skip bin lacked “basic human decency”. “The people here want to live somewhere that is clean and healthy,” he…

IF beach sand in your socks, sunburn and yelling kids isn’t your idea of a great gallery experience, it might be time to ditch Cottesloe’s seaside spectacle and try out some new public art in The Pickle District. Viewers won’t even have to leave the air-conditioned comfort of their cars to see the latest exhibition…

VICTORIA’S $5.3 billion social housing package has exposed the McGowan government’s 10-year strategy as the work of a third world “backwater” says a WA-based homeless advocacy group. House the Homeless says just 260 new homes will be built for low-income families in WA over the next decade – less than half what the Andrews government…

IN the lead up to the Maylands Brickworks open day, former worker David Weatherhead made a surprise visit to the heritage site to rekindle some old memories. “I worked there a couple of times, first in 1963 and later on it would have been about 1980,” Mr Weatherhead, now 84, recalls. “It was a job,”…

VINCENT council has been issued a caution after carrying out unauthorised works at an Aboriginal heritage site near Banks Reserve. A Department of Planning, Lands and Heritage investigation found “legislative non-compliance” in path repairs carried out near Windan Bridge, which is named for one of Yellagonga’s wives. The DPLH tells us the works occurred within…

BEAUFORT STREET now has its own Christmas tree with star. In preparation for the Christmas Festival in Beaufort Street tomorrow (Sunday November 29) Anglican rector Stephen Conway recently braved some rough weather to ride a crane to the top of the massive pine tree in front of St Patrick’s in Mt Lawley. Fr Conway wrapped…

A LOCAL film director has helped bring WA’s multicultural history to the Arab world while shedding some light on a little-known connection between the two far-distant lands. After receiving critical acclaim at the Venice Film Festival, first-time director Roderick McKay’s feature film The Furnace made its official Arab premier at the El Gouna Film Festival in…

Art project helps deal with loss A GROUP of women whose children were forcibly taken by authorities are finding solace through a collaborative artwork with Fremantle ceramic artist Jenny Dawson. The women belong to an 80-strong national organisation known as the Association Representing Mothers Separated from their Children by Adoption (ARMS) which lobbies for awareness…

A NEW ground-breaking improv group will tackle the lack of diversity and female-friendly venues in Perth’s comedy scene. Only The Human will be the first cooperatively controlled arts organisation in WA, with members deciding what artistic direction it should take and how it should be run. Any money generated from classes or festivals will be ploughed back…

STIRLING’s 2020 Blink Photography Awards winners have been announced and voting is now open for the people’s choice awards. The judging  panel commented that this year’s entries were of the highest standard.  Annabelle Watling’s Remorse won best photograph by a young entrant (under 18), Jesse Pretorius won best photograph for 2020 for HK Bathers, and Alan…