THOUSANDS of Perth school pupils marched through the streets to demand action on climate change as part of the School Strike 4 Climate last Friday (March 15). It’s the second time in under six months Australian students have walked out of school to demand action on global warming ahead of the upcoming federal election.

STIRLING could be home to the first women’s shed in Perth. An increasing number of retired women want to get “hands on” with tools, says Cr Elizabeth Re, who has successfully lobbied Stirling council to review the demand for a suitable workshop. Yanchep has WA’s only women’s shed, and there are about 30 across Australia.…

WA’S health department has issued a measles alert after a baby with the disease visited Morley library on March 12. Visitors may have been exposed if they attended between 9.25am and 11am, particularly if they attended Rhyme Time or Story Time. Those sessions have been postponed until March 30. The department says “individuals should be…

DRUMMERS from 77 nations gathered in Stirling last Friday (March 15) to set a new world record for the most nationalities in a drum circle. Stirling council hosted the event at Mirrabooka Town Square as part of Harmony Week, and the global batterie smashed the previous 2018 Canadian record of 61 nationalities. Stirling council CEO…

FEDERAL Labor leader Bill Shorten was in Perth this week, filming a campaign ad at Kings Park ahead of the expected May 18 election. If he looks a little miffed it’s because he’d been asked to repeat his closing line about six times while standing in mid-30 temperatures wearing a full suit and tie on…

IN last week’s story “Life in the slow lane” we reported that all residential streets in Vincent would be dropped to a 40kmh speed limit for a two-year trial, but it’s just the streets in the southern half of the council below Vincent Street. As one reader who wrote in to point out the error…

JACK WINTERBOTTOM is one of the many fascinating transport pioneers featured in the new exhibition From Hooves to Highways at the Museum of Perth. If you bought a car in WA in the early 20th century, chances are it was imported by Mr Winterbottom, a Perth entrepreneur who established the Perth Motor House on Hay…

A NORTHBRIDGE restaurateur had to walk his bride down the aisle of Perth’s distinctly unromantic immigration detention centre a fortnight ago after she was detained for what the couple claims is a misunderstanding over her visa. Jeremy Lay, who owns the Asian restaurant Buda Buda on Francis Street, met Sirilak Laksom during a trip to…

VINCENT council is scrambling to try and recover thousands of staff emails which have been deleted in contravention of the State Records Act. The gaping flaw in Vincent’s record keeping came to light four weeks ago and has been the subject of an internal investigation, says the council’s director of corporate services Kerryn Batten. In…

THE Greens’ Perth candidate has urged school kids to attend a climate change “strike” on Friday, despite the WA government warning parents they must legally be in class. Ms Perks says the School Strike for Climate on Friday coincides with her birthday, and “there’s nowhere I’d rather be”. “Growing up in the Perth Hills, bushfires…