AN aged and disability provider is in pole position to move into the Maylands Autumn Centre. Bayswater council officers have recommended that ECHO, which provides in-home care and services, be granted a five-year lease. Up until last year it was used by the Maylands Senior’s Club, but it dissolved after membership dwindled, and the Ninth…

THE three state government-appointed commissioners running Perth city council will decide on Tuesday if suspended councillors keep getting paid, but regardless of their decision lord mayor Lisa Scaffidi will continue to receive most of her wages. Perth councillors get an allowance every quarter, totalling just over $30,000 a year, and they’re still getting this while…

VINCENT council CEO Len Kosova has announced he will resign in September after three and a half years in the job. His contract runs until 2021, but Mr Kosova said he wants to spend more time with his kids and do more consultancy work in the local government sector. It was a far shorter innings…

ABOUT 2000 people marched through Perth on the weekend, calling for the federal government to expedite asylum and immigration applications from white farmers facing violent attacks in South Africa. Speakers included Liberal MP Andrew Hastie and Liberal Democrat Aaron Stonehouse, who’ve been accused by Labor of joining “extreme right-wingers” for the march. Persecuted group But…

EAST PERTH and Subiaco football clubs have been left reeling after being told they’ll each have to find an extra $46,000 a year to keep leasing Leederville Oval. Vincent council recently reviewed the clubs’ 21-year leases and discovered it had been paying more than its share of turf maintenance, insurance, water and power as well…

THE demolition this week of a once-stately home overlooking Hyde Park has sparked concerns the floodgates have opened for the whole historic precinct to be surrounded by townhouses. Museum of Perth chair Reece Harley has called on Vincent council to beef up its heritage protection, saying the line of old homes along Vincent Street provided…

THE Metropolitan Redevelopment Authority has apologised to people who missed buses and trains in Perth on Saturday night after it closed off parts of Yagan Square for a swanky private dinner. People who use the square as a shortcut to Perth Busport and train station were met with detours signs funnelling them down streets after…

AFTER 23 years there isn’t a single dog-eared page to indicate it’s ever been wielded in anger, but Vincent council’s Nuclear Free Zone policy only just escaped the axe last week. The policy was adopted under Vincent’s first mayor Jack Marks in 1995, with the fledgling municipality striving to establish its “progressive” cred after being…

GIVING concession card holders discounts on fines could help reduce high incarceration rates for Aboriginal people in WA, says a North Perth law student. Murdoch uni third-year student Caitlin Joensson recently had one of her assignments accepted into an official federal government inquiry into indigenous incarceration rates. “Non-payment of fines may not be the offence…

SUPERTRAWLERS will be back in Australian waters following the Turnbull government’s slashing of proposed marine parks, says Federal Labor MP Josh Wilson. Mr Wilson calls the cutbacks to Labor’s planned national network of sanctuaries “the largest act of marine vandalism in Australia’s history”. But federal environmnet minister Josh Frydenberg says the new plans, endorsed by…