A POSSE of grannies is planning to ambush premier Mark McGowan outside WA parliament on November 5 to give him a strict ticking off about logging in WA’s native forests. Forty of the Old Growth Grannies, as they’ve been tagged, recently blockaded a logging site in Nannup then set up a protest camp outside Mr…

Future Bayswater still anxious road design will ‘cut off’ town. ‘Trestle’ aesthetic dropped. THE proposed Bayswater train station has been re-designed following widespread discontent over the concept plans released mid-year. The town centre’s advocacy group Future Bayswater delivered a 1024-signature petition to WA parliament in September calling for a redesign to accurately reflect the 2018 sketches…

A PREVIOUSLY rejected plan for a food kiosk at Hyde Park is back on the agenda. Vincent council staff have suggested a privately-operated kiosk could operate from the storage room attached to the toilet building near the west end to help activate the park. Former councillor Dudley Maier submitted a statement to this week’s council…

PERTH CBD’s new uni campuses may end up “a playground for the elite” as a result of sharply rising course fees, warns federal Labor MP Patrick Gorman. The ink was barely dry on the Perth City Deal paving the way for ECU’s Mount Lawley campus to move into the city, when it was confirmed the…

THE WA Tourism Council’s been urging people to “Holiday in WA”, but Perth Labor MP John Carey is imploring travellers to go even more local and support city tourism too. Two city tourism operators recently received state government “tourism business survival grants” aimed at keeping them going during a season without international or interstate tourists. Walking…

KYILLA Primary School marks its 75th anniversary with an open day on October 24 to showcase its history. There’ll be displays and photos charting the key events, and a year 6 play will explore key moments such as the 1951 crash of a tiger moth plane just metres from the school fence.  There were plans…

AN expert on the Australian light horsemen will be at Anzac Cottage on October 25 for a presentation on the Battle of Beersheba. Phil Sullivan is a military historian and re-enactor, and troop commander of the Avon Valley 10th Light Horse Memorial Troop. He was part of a 2012 trip by a large group of…

MORE than 60 “occupiers” have been kicked off Perth council’s voting list. An audit of the council’s owners and occupiers list, presented to the city’s commissioners this week, found hundreds of other former voters didn’t bother reapplying. The list was under scrutiny this year following revelations of bogus voters during the Power inquiry. The occupiers…

Dark Swan take on lockdown What could be more surreal than living in these Covid times than a giant seashell floating down Fremantle’s High Street!  Surrealism art is making a splash in the Fremantle PSA Artspace from 17 October to 14 November with interpretations of what life has been like throughout the crazy existential pandemic. …

A STUNNING exhibition of amateur photography opens at The Kidogo Arthouse on Thursday (October 15). Featuring everything from drone shots to thought-provoking portraits, the Perth Amateur Photo Exhibition has 150 diverse snaps on display. Exhibitor Anna Burke, who moved to Fremantle five years ago and lives in South Beach Estate, captured an intimate photo of…