A BAYSWATER local who reported a local garage for illegally dumping waste on Whatley Crescent has been the victim of veiled threats of rape and violence. Last Sunday October 6 Bayswater resident Charlie Bellamy filmed black sludge being emptied into stormwater drains leading to the Swan River (“Caught in the act,” Voice, October 13, 2018).…

TENNIS lovers are in for a treat after Bayswater Tennis Club opened its state-of-the-art clubrooms last Friday. The original 1930s clubrooms underwent a $1.4 million rebuild and now include a 200-person function suite, players’ lounges, solar panels and an instant hot water system. President Dan Kerrigan said the clubrooms are just the start of ongoing…

MORE than 300 people have signed a petition calling for a community garden at the Inglewood Bowling and Sports Club. Recently Stirling council reviewed 10 bowling clubs in the area and decided not to fund a refurbishment of the tatty Inglewood club house because of its age and the club’s declining membership. Petitioners wrote that…

NORTHBRIDGE-based Greens senator Rachel Siewert has marked anti-poverty week by claiming the Morrison government is demonising people on the dole. The Greens have a bill before parliament that was due to be debated on Thursday, calling for the Newstart and Youth Allowance to be raised by $75 a week. It follows research by Deloitte Access…

THE beloved Kyilla Community Farmer’s Market has been given the green light to operate for another five years. Noting the success of the markets, Vincent councillors unanimously approved another five-year permit and voted to waive the $56,160 reserve hire fee at Tuesday night’s council meeting. The market, run by Kyilla primary school and the pre-primary P&Cs,…

  STIRLING council should collaborate more with the Beaufort Street Network, says Mt Lawley MP Simon Millman. The BSN, a grass-roots collection of businesses and residents dedicated to improving the area, re-launched on Friday night and more than 100 people piled into Harvey Leigh’s in Highgate to share their ideas for the future of the…

VINCENT council is going ahead with its 40kmh speed limit trial on suburban streets in the southern ward below Vincent Street (see last week’s story “Sixty want 40” at http://www.perthvoiceinteractive.com). Councillors voted it in after 60 per cent of people who were surveyed said they supported a 40kmh limit. Mayor Emma Cole told Tuesday night’s…

THE newly re-launched Beaufort Street Network 2.0’s first event was a hit with hundreds turning out for “Dogtober” on Sunday October 14. The rain didn’t stop people bringing their pooches along to the Mary Street Piazza for the popular dog show, MCd by Perth MP John Carey, who had organised the first bow-wow show at…

TAFE’S Gallery Central in Aberdeen Street will be transformed into a shrine this week, with a chant master from the Phen Dhe Ling Tibetan Buddhist Association holding morning meditations while creating a sacred sand mandala. The mandalas are created from memory and the designs are reputedly 2500 years old; but emphasising the impermanence of life,…

MANNA INC will continue feeding people for free in Weld Square for at least another year. In 2008 Vincent council let the benevolent food van go there to feed people doing it tough, “until permanent premises was secured”. But Manna wasn’t able to find a home and 10 years later they’re still at Weld Square,…