FOUR suspended Perth councillors will have their positions immediately “vacated” and fresh elections have been set for a new council and lord mayor on October 17 this year. Councillors Steve Hasluck, James Limnios, Lexi Barton and Reece Harley had terms that expired on October 16, 2021, but following another extension to the long-delayed inquiry, their…

WELLINGTON SQUARE will get a new Noongar dual name as part of a fast-tracked upgrade. When Perth council’s commissioners first endorsed a design in September 2018 the $18.7million works were to be staged over six years and include extensive consultation. But in December commissioners approved a slimmed-down plan that made savings by deferring upgrades to…

STIRLING council officers have recommended a two-year trial of a 40kmh speed limit on Beaufort Street in Inglewood, despite a majority of residents opposing it. A total of 560 people responded during the city’s public consultation period, with 53 per cent of residents opposing the trial, 46 per cent supporting it and one per cent…

AN iconic Aleppo pine outside Beatty Park has been cut down on arboriculturalist’s advice. Vincent staff noticed the 20-metre tree had been declining for a few years and brought in an arboriculturalist to assess it in November. A tap with a nylon hammer revealed it was hollow on the north side where termites had previously…

NEW Bayswater councillor Steven Ostaszewskyj has convinced the city to recycle a huge pile of its retired furniture. In 2018 before joining Bayswater, Cr Ostaszewskyj found out about an enormous trove of office furniture sitting in the city’s warehouse on the corner of King and Raymond Streets. He raised it at the city’s AGM saying…

BAYSWATER council, the Chung Wah Association and Mount Lawley Bowling Club have been caught up in the latest sports rorts scandal. Although the Morrison government has refused to name clubs that missed out on funding from a grants program exposed earlier this month as a political porkbarrel, the ABC on Tuesday published a leaked list…

AFTER 17 years in storage a blue whale skeleton will be put on display at the new WA Museum. This week the McGowan government announced the iconic bones would hang in the museum’s Hackett Hall when it opens November, suspended in a dynamic “lunge-feeding” pose based on recent research into whale hunting behaviour. The skeleton…

AROUND 250,000 thrifty people attended Perth’s Australia Day Skyworks show, donating an average of three cents per person to bushfire relief. City of Perth commissioners decided to turn the event into a fundraiser with 50 volunteers walking among the crowd collecting donations in buckets and via EFTPOS. So far the total is $57,521.30, which sounds…

TWO heritage-listed West Perth houses and the former home of one of serial killer Eric Edgar Cooke’s victims are being demolished by the McGowan government. The Post Newspaper reports that 24-year-old social worker Constance Lucy Madrill was murdered at 70 Thomas Street in Perth by Cooke on February 15, 1963. Cooke killed eight people (that…

AFTER 30 years Mt Lawley retail veteran John Higgins is closing down Jack Clothing on the corner of Beaufort and Walcott Streets. Despite a conga line of other retailers folding due to the strip’s economic woes, Mr Higgins says he just wants to retire and spend more time relaxing and hanging with his family. Turning…