A RELENTLESS anti-Covid vaccine protester is opposing Perth council’s rules requiring a permit to hold a sign or play amplified sound in public. Stuart Chapman says he wants the right to publicly play a recorded message from a dying teenage cancer patient who refused the Covid vaccine. Mr Chapman is a regular sight on Perth…

A MILESTONE in the redevelopment of Warndoolier/Banks Reserve has been marked with the opening of a space to “rest and reflect” on the area’s long cultural history. One of a series of “River Journey interpretation nodes” telling the story of the Whadjuk Aboriginal connection the Derbarl Yerrigan (Swan River), this latest spot is emblazoned with…

AFTER 10 mature trees were cut down for a state government housing project in Mount Lawley, Vincent mayor Alison Xamon is furious at the way locals and councillors were left out of the loop by the Department of Planning, Lands and Heritage. The block at the corner of East Parade and Guildford Road is being…

POPPIES made by hundreds of loving hands will be displayed outside Vincent council’s admin building for Remembrance Day. Vincent put the call out in August for community members to contribute to the Poppy Project and more than 1000 flowers have been pouring in since from schools, clubs, playgroups, community groups and individuals.       …

PERTH has a new councillor, with Steve Wellard winning the October 18 extraordinary election. A vacancy was left by former councillor Brent Fleeton who retired one year early to pursue a government advisory job in Dubai. It’s the second time Mr Fleeton has cut short a council appointment, having previously left his role as a…

MAYLANDS café Steam Haus has has given its shopfront a zhush thanks to a $3000 grant from Bayswater council.  Café owner Stephanie Crowe installed a new window display and introduced a coffee grind recycling station for composting to create a fresh, sustainable space that draws in customers. Ms Crowe, who took over the business a…

STORIES are sought to flesh out the history of a little-known figure who helped feed Bayswater for decades – market gardener Hu Che-Em. Hu Che-Em arrived in Australia from China in the 1890s, and was also known as “Hoppy” after the “Hop Chong market garden he ran in Bayswater until the late 1940s or early…

The BHS’s submission to Bayswater council telling Hu Che-Em’s story, from Catherine May’s book Changes They’ve Seen: The City and People of Bayswater, 1827-2013 (2nd ed). HU CHE-EM was born in 1873 and arrived in Australia in the 1890s.  His daughters, Sylvia Gillespie and Evelyn Wigger, have no doubt that he came to Australia in…

BAYSWATER council will make it more difficult for developers to raze trees under a revised policy about to go out for consultation. On a night dominated by discussion about how to preserve the city’s tree canopy, the council is also proposing to remove the right of neighbours to have a say on significant trees that…

WHEN 81-year-old professor Neville Bruce told his wife he was planning to ride across the country to take on Australia’s gas giants, he admits she took some convincing. “She was marvellous, though she was dead against me going at the beginning,” the director of education for world futures at UWA told the Voice. Octogenarian His…