AUSTRALIA POST will be getting a stern letter from Bayswater council’s access and inclusion committee because it keeps sending residents hither and thither to find undelivered parcels. Parcels bound for Maylands residents are ending up at Inglewood, Bassendean and even Malaga post offices. Bayswater councillor Elli Petersen-Pik says no one’s complaining about the customer service…

VINCE CONNELLY has won a tight gender-fuelled race to become the Liberal candidate for Stirling at the upcoming federal election. The former army officer pipped Michelle Sutherland by just two votes at last Saturday’s pre-selection meeting (February 23). High-profile candidate Joanne Quinn was a favourite in the lead-up, but could only muster four votes and…

THERE was a big turnout for the debut Maylands Laneway Festival last Saturday (February 23), but many attendees were left saying it needed more stuff to do. Bayswater council asked attendees for feedback and about half the people posting on the event’s Facebook page were disappointed. One person said that it took them just 10…

After a two-year delay the notorious Stirling Towers in Highgate will finally be demolished and replaced with contemporary mixed housing. The department of communities first mooted redeveloping the public housing site in 2014, and all the residents were relocated years ago. Early last year the department was in contract negotiations with a preferred partner, but…

A NEW pedestrian crossing planned for outside Beatty Park will help residents walk between the north and south of Vincent. When he was Vincent mayor, now-Perth MP John Carey was contacted by lots of parents living south of Vincent Street, who felt unsafe crossing the street to get to the pool and park. They said…

BAYSWATER council is set to hand over the running of Mertome Village to private aged care operator Fresh Fields. The ageing aged care facility on Winnifred Road has been in need of redevelopment for years, and in 2016 Bayswater council voted to sell the Village to an aged care operator for redevelopment and to lease…

THERE have been so many false fire alarms at a public housing tower block in East Perth, residents don’t evacuate anymore. One resident at the 100-unit complex on Goderich Street told us the alarms are going off at least once a week, sometimes three. Initially people would evacuate, but when the alarm went off this…

RARELY has a parliamentary speech led to such widespread outrage as Lisa Baker’s relatively mild prompt to eat less meat. But the Maylands MP told the Voice she won’t shy away from bringing up difficult issues. Ms Baker finished her speech with a quote from a Lancet article: “So what is a healthy amount of…

Stirling mayor Mark Irwin and members of African bands Akwaaba and Bella Ndayikeze will be hoping to set a new drumming world record on Harmony Day. The city council wants to try and get more than 61 nationalities playing in a drum circle, which would break the record set by a not-for-profit organisation in Canada…

JOANNE QUINN has spared no expense in trying to become the Stirling Liberal candidate at the upcoming federal election. The 47-year-old has tried to woo Liberal state delegates with a glossy six-page brochure outlining her credentials ahead of the Stirling pre-selection vote today (Saturday February 23). A party insider said candidates normally send delegates a…