BAYSWATER council won’t bring forward funding for an arts studio at Ellis House despite entreaties from the organisation’s chair that they’ve had to cancel exhibitions in order to meet demand for art classes. Councillor Dan Bull had moved a motion at this week’s council meeting to add $300,000 into next year’s capital works program, a…

VINCENT council has knocked back proposed alterations aimed at re-sparking a derelict service station on Angove Street (“A fuel station with priors?” Voice, August 17, 2024)  The proposal included a new shopfront, replacement of windows, repainting of the walls and roof, replacement of fuel bowsers and underground fuel tanks, installation of a 2.1m high refuse…

NESTLING a pint of lager while contemplating the ills of the world might sound a little like drowning your sorrows at the bar, but the Perth Philosophy Circle has a different take on things. They’ve been running wildly successful Pub Philosophy lectures at Clancy’s Fish Pub in Fremantle. PhD candidate and event organiser Kyle Gleadell…

ONE of Perth’s biggest water polo clubs says its 60-year association with Beatty Park is under threat because a Vincent council revamp of its playing pool has left it too shallow to host official games.  Triton Water Polo Club president Glenn Townsend says the “debacle” also affects a second water polo team and the West…

FEW people can understand the value of a good working dog more than Ryan Wilson. The former SAS dog handler was on patrol in Afghanistan in 2013 when his combat assault dog Fax sensed a nearby presence and leapt into action. Tragically Fax was killed in the encounter, but Mr Wilson has no doubts that…

AN innovative program which aims to combat loneliness amongst LGBTI+ elders while opening up secure and affordable housing for their young LGBTIQA+ peers has been launched by Mt Hawthorn-based organisation GRAI. The Pride Intergenerational Housing Program will match older LGBTI+ people who’ve got a spare room, with an LGBTIQA+ student. With older lesbian, gay, bisexual…

ARTISTS have stepped up where Extinction Rebellion were once the tour de force, taking on WA’s fossil fuel companies over their CO2 emissions. Last week art group PVI Collective delivered giant “invoices” to five of WA’s biggest energy companies under the guise of satirical debt collectors The Social Licence Watchdogs. They took the name from…

FIVE of Vincent’s largest parks will be prohibited to cats as part of new laws that come into effect this year. The local law provides for the management, control and regulation of dogs, cats, poultry, bees and other animals and was adopted by Council in October 2023. Cats will now be prohibited from Britannia Road…

EAST PERTH resident GLEN MORGAN is donating his father’s war medals to the Army Museum of WA, and in honour of the occasion penned the following, “in memory of Ronald Spencer Morgan, 2/11th Battalion, Crete veteran; and all Allied soldiers and Germans who fought valiantly for the fate at Crete during WWII”. The 2/11th was…

PERTH lord mayor Basil Zempilas has stepped up his fight with the Cook government over a site earmarked for a new primary school, accusing the state of “stealing” the land from council ratepayers. Earlier this week education minister minister Tony Buti announced legislation would be introduced to Parliament to free the Queens Garden carpark behind…