PERTH’S latest “climate crisis strike was due to take place in Forrest Place yesterday (Friday September 20). With people from 150 countries now participating, the global event aims to bring awareness to what strikers are calling a “climate crisis”, and is being held in the lead-up to a UN climate change summit in Korea this…

LAWLEY  A FORMER soldier who served in the Middle East and a director at the WA Cricket Association are just some of the interesting candidates locking horns at the Stirling council election next month: • PAUL COLLINS was Lawley ward councillor from 2007-11 and is a former president of the Mount Lawley Society. He was born…

FOR the first time in Stirling’s history the mayor will be elected by popular vote at next month’s council elections. Previously the mayor was voted in by councillors, but this time residents will decided who presides over the largest council in WA. The move is part of Stirling’s push to get more people voting; at…

A GROUP of Mt Lawley residents have refused to pay a rates charge for underground power after discovering nine enormous transmission poles will not be sunk along Learoyd Street. Residents across Menora and Mt Lawley are paying on average $8000 for underground power, but some of the Learoyd Street residents have rejected a 20 per…

PUBLIC drinking still seems to be okay if you’re white. Bruce Campbell, the former chair of the WA Deaths in Custody Watch Committee, lives near Hyde Park and is tired of seeing picnickers boozing near the kids’ playground. Mr Campbell says he’d prefer to see a ban on public drinking scrapped since it often leads…

A “FOGO” bin system that recycles food scraps is set to be rolled out through Bayswater next year. The council has voted in a new waste management plan and will ask the community for feedback on the Food Organics Garden Organics (FOGO) bins in November. Bayswater was one of the first councils to adopt a…

SEXIST jokes, derogatory names and even groping still persist in local government, but the new president of the Australian Local Government Women’s Association WA branch says the sector is changing. Melville councillor Karen Wheatland was recently appointed to head up the branch and says there have been some positive signs of breaking down the blokey…

A TEARY-EYED Lisa Baker has shared heart-breaking tales from her Maylands constituents during debate on WA’s proposed euthanasia laws. Pausing to regain her composure several times, the Labor MP read out a moving letter from Inglewood resident Carol. “Many years ago I worked as a young registered nurse in a world-class, award-winning medical unit for…

A FEDERAL inquiry into whether Australia should open its doors to nuclear energy is just a manoeuvre to placate die-hard supporters in the Liberal party, says federal Fremantle Labor MP Josh Wilson. Mr Wilson, who’s electorate was the heart and soul of the anti-nuclear movement from the early 1980s, is deputy chair of the Standing…

SIXTH AVENUE in Bayswater is officially the most sustainable street in the city. Edible verge gardens and superb up-cycling and recycling helped Sixth Avenue residents win the council’s inaugural Sustainable Street Awards this week. On Wednesday, September 11, Bayswater mayor Dan Bull presented the winning residents with a sign for the street and $500 towards…