A LOCAL active transport advocate warns the WA government’s long-term cycle network will pit riders against cars on busy roads. Andrew Main, who’s spent years dealing with councils and government departments advocating for safer streets for humans on foot and on bikes, says the plan won’t hit its aim to increase the number of people…

IF homelessness is becoming a game of “political football” in the Perth council elections, Phillicia Garlett and her family are the pigskin. They’ve been bounced around the decidedly uneven playing surface of Perth’s CBD and into its farthest pockets; their latest shelter under the Lord Street overpass in Highgate seems so precarious it feels like there’s…

A SUMMER 2021 reopening for the first stage of the Maylands Waterland is in the pipeline.  Bayswater council brought in tv gardening figure Josh Byrne to develop the concept plans, with play areas and artworks inspired by local plants and animals, and “bioengineering” practices which aim to ensure the revamped Waterland doesn’t impact on the…

A NEW pedestrian and bike bridge across the Swan River will be constructed west of the Causeway, linking the CBD with Victoria Park. The McGowan government’s spending about $50 million on the new bridge which will have a six-metre wide path and dedicated cycle and pedestrian lanes, marking a shift away from the principal shared-path…

AFTER years of hard work a triangular oasis of urban greenery is ready for guided bushwalks. Volunteers from the Friends of Inglewood Triangle have worked to restore the patch to a prime example of intact banksia woodland.  It’s needed weeding to keep out invasive weeds like veldt and black flag, careful quarantining to keep dieback at…

  THE WA Australian Medical Association has raised concerns about a partnership between Perth health clinics and a medical cannabis producer. In the biggest deal of its kind, leading medical cannabis supplier Montu has signed a deal with Jupiter health clinics across WA, claiming it can help drastically cut waiting times for patients with a…

A LITTLE boat that spent 463 days drifting across the Indian Ocean is making its way into Perth this weekend.  The tiny GPS-equipped Star of the Sea, built by students at Sacred Heart School in Kingston, Massachusetts was part of a global project from nonprofit organisation Educational Passages, which aims to connect students around the…

AN alliance of environmental groups fighting a major oil and gas development on the doorstep of Ningaloo Reef launched a major new campaign in Perth this week. Beautiful Ningaloo is being run by Protect Ningaloo, a joint initiative of the Australian Marine Conservation Society, the Conservation Council  of WEA and the Cape Conservation Group – Exmouth,…

Prices manipulated, undeclared conflict, complaints mishandled, CCC misled – and Anthony Mcfadden has to face them all again “IT is a lot worse than I first thought,” says a business owner who missed out on a contract due to “manipulation” of the City of Perth’s tender processes. The Power inquiry slammed the council over its handling of…

BEAUTIFUL, historic Nannup on the Blackwood River is bursting into bloom. The annual flower and garden festival is on now, right through to September 20. The Chook flew into this former timber town half way between Bridgetown and Manjimup recently and found it with open, welcoming arms.  The main street was already a sea of colour…