AN exhibition about the world’s largest remaining temperate woodland aims to gain formal recognition and protection from mining for one of Western Australia’s least-understood environments. The Wilderness Society has long advocated against mining in the Great Western Woodlands, an area that runs from the Nullarbor to the Wheatbelt and is considered a biodiversity hotspot for…

THE historic mini music festival Neon Picnic returns to Hyde Park on Saturday March 23. RTR’s Neon Picnic was the precursor to In The Pines festival, which has been held every year at UWA’s Somerville Auditorium since 1994. The first Neon Picnics was held in the late 1980s when the radio station was still called…

PROMINENT Beaufort Street restaurants Cantina 663 and Red Cray closed last week sparking fears the area has entered another slump. The closures come in the wake of news reports that some commercial rents on Beaufort St are higher than those in the CBD. Extortionate rents, too many franchises, and customers spending less have all been…

MORE pain’s on the way for Beaufort Street traders with two kilometres of road to be dug up to replace water mains. The Water Corporation says the pipes are a century old and in danger of bursting. Works start on March 11 between Newcastle and Bulwer Streets, and will take about six weeks. Work on…

NORTH PERTH post office has closed suddenly without any explanation, leaving a bunch of parcels locked inside the building. Australia Post aren’t saying why the post office shut down on Friday March 1, but it changed hands two years ago and there had been several complaints about customer service in the months leading up to…

AFTER 60 years of birdies, mulligans and the odd hole in one, the Veteran Women Golfers’ Association still hits the course every month. The ladies drag behind them heavy golf trolleys and a legacy of friendship and laughs. In the same year Fidel Cas1tro seized power in Cuba, 1959, the Cottesloe Golf Club formed the…

A PLAN to allow only left-hand turns on a dangerous intersection in Mount Lawley has come under fire from residents who say it will foist the problem onto their streets. Stirling council has received funding from the state government’s Black Spot program to modify the intersection of Second Avenue and Carrington Street following several serious…

Jewish comments ‘clumsy’ LIBERAL leader Mike Nahan has accused WA Labor of being anti-Israel in an escalating row with Mt Lawley MP Simon Millman. In last week’s Voice Mr Millman claimed antisemitism was rife in the WA Liberal party after it emerged  Upper House MLC Jim Chown had described the Chinese as “the Jews of…

GROUND has been broken on the first big apartment project in Bayswater to take advantage of the Metronet rollout. After more than three years wending through the planning approval process, One Foyle Road was the first major block of this scale to be approved under the city’s town centre structure plan. But it’s the block…