A LONG-FORGOTTEN story of Southern Ocean adventure which paved the way for the STS Leeuwin, will be appearing on Freo’s theatre screens this month after award-winning success in Europe.  The Great White Whale documents the story of the 1963 voyage of an “audacious” group of Australian adventurers to Heard Island – a volcanic island 2000…

WORK from one of Perth’s most prolific and talented female artists will be on display for the next week at Holmes à Court gallery in West Perth.  Elizabeth Blair Barber, also known socially by her married name, Betty Bunning, painted and sketched hundreds of works depicting Western Australian life.  “Intuitive, bold, and insightful”, Barber was…

VINCENT council has been given almost $1 million from the Albanese government to make sure its infrastructure is ready for the next wave of infill. The funding will go towards a study into the city’s transport, traffic, water, sewer age and power, with the aim of delivering its own capital works and guiding anything planned…

PROTESTERS in cockatoo masks roosted outside planning minister John Carey’s Perth office this week calling for stronger laws to protect WA’s natural environment. The protest was part of the 9 Days of Action campaign from a broad coalition of environmental campaigners who want the Environmental Protection Authority’s independence strengthened because of “relentless industry lobbying”. One…

TURTLE costumes greeted WA premier Roger Cook as an alliance of conservation groups called for stronger nature laws. The protest came after WA endured its hottest, driest summer on record, causing the biggest die-off of South West forests and Bibra Lake’s turtle population suffered a catastrophic collapse when foxes took advantage of the super-dry lake…

A POLICY adviser for the Australian Retailers Association has been endorsed as the Liberal candidate for the state seat of Mt Lawley. Dianella’s Ben Cornel beat out Inglewood real estate director Eric David and motivational author James Fairbairn, while ending the hopes of former Stirling councillor Joe Ferrante to be a face in the March…

THE Binar Space Program, a pioneering initiative led by Curtin University’s Space Science Technology Centre, is set to make history again this weekend with the launch of Binar-2, 3, and 4 satellites.  Scheduled for launch today (Saturday August 3) from NASA’s Kennedy Space Centre aboard the SpaceX NG-21 rocket, the satellites will follow the groundbreaking…

THE International Transport Workers FederaÅtion (ITF) says it recovered around $60 million in “stolen wages” from ports around Western Australia in one week. The ITWF has been running a Nowhere to Hide campaign and at the conclusion of a week of action on WA ports on Friday, Australian coordinator Ian Bray said conditions for international…

AFTER 14 beloved years in the Mount Lawley and Highgate neighbourhood, Beaufort Street Books has moved just 50 meters up the road to the corner of Vincent and Beaufort Street. In a feat worthy of a record, 14,000 books — or countless hours of quality reading — were transported with the help of a “community…

A COMPANY which paid for a $3300 brunch, lunch, wine and dinner trip to Busselton by Bayswater mayor Filomena Piffaretti appears linked to a possible redevelopment of the historic Maylands Brickworks site. Ms Piffaretti declared the gift back in March, but she faced a grilling from unhappy council colleagues and ratepayers about the lack of…