SCITECH turned 30 this week but it’s not sitting on its laurels and has launched an initiative to attract more women and indigenous people to its exhibitions. Kids have long loved the colourful exhibits and flashy demonstrations, but CEO Deb Hancock says they’re hoping to target people that are under-represented in science, technology, engineering and…

THE Rosemount Hotel goes all Brazilian on Saturday August 26 with an all-ages fundraiser for Perth’s 6th annual Kuatapoeirando Capoeira Festival. Hosted by Brazliian martial arts school Capoeira CDO Perth, there’ll be live capoeira and samba, and tunes from musos including Randa and the Soul Kingdom, Belle Harvey, Constanza Herrero and Renata Garcia. It starts…

STIRLING council is on the verge of selling a strip of land beside the Astor Theatre in Mt Lawley, but locals say they’re missing a “magical opportunity” to make it a vibrant public space. The land, which forms part of the car park in front of the Fat Dragon Diner, is going for a song.…

A 24-METRE blue whale skeleton will take centre stage at Perth’s new museum in 2020. Canadian company Cetacea, a specialist in “skeleton articulation”, has arrived in Perth to begin the 18-month process of designing and fabricating a frame to support the four-tonne skeleton, which will be suspended in Hackett Hall. In celebration of what would…

MORE than 300 adrenaline seekers braved the wild weather at the choppier-than-usual Avon Descent last weekend The thrilling 124 kilometre whitewater race from Northam to Bayswater is WA’s second-longest running sporting event, and over the last 44 years more than 35,000 competitors have taken part. At this year’s event 154 canoeists, paddlers and kayakers managed…

Mt HAWTHORN’S community composting station has helped divert 750 litres of organic waste from landfill in just its first month. Instead of the waste festering in a mountain of rubbish – turning into methane as it breaks down under anaerobic conditions – the scraps get broken down in aerobic conditions and can be used as…

A TRAFFIC warden will be stationed at the dangerous Clifton Crescent crossing in Mt Lawley after three years of lobbying by the local primary school P&C. Parents feared it’d only be a matter of time before a student was hit by a car at the busy Second Avenue intersection. They initially made a bit of…

THE man who turned around the fortunes of the ailing Bayswater bowling and recreation club has stepped down as president. When Steve Lay returned to the club in 2015 they had no social members and the books were in a dire state. “It was in more trouble than the early explorers,” Mr Lay says. Within…

AS Bayswater Bowling and Recreation Club goes from strength to strength, the Inglewood Bowls Club is set to close. Two years ago Stirling council held a review of its sporting clubs to find out which ones were financially viable, and with its ageing building and high maintenance costs, the IBC didn’t score well in the…

THOUSANDS of people around the world will be gazing into stranger’s eyes for one minute on September 22. The social experiment is for anyone who wants to experience the power of real human connection, says Peter Sharp, founder of The Liberators International. “When you’re looking into someone’s eyes you’re telling them, ‘You exist. You’re here.…