LEEDERVILLE’S streets were closed again last Sunday for the Leederville Super Criterium cycling race. Part of a summer series, the Leederville ring wrapped up the season with Midland Cycling Club dominating, finishing with well over double the points of runners-up Perth District Cycle Club. For some, though, it was less about the thrill of the…

MARCH 31 is Transgender Day of Visibility, and local support organisation TransFolk of WA is celebrating with a family-friendly day down at North Perth Town Hall. TransFolk of WA started back in 2012, initially as a support group for trans men (men who were assigned as female at birth) but then expanded into having mentors…

TRANSGENDER people are slipping through the cracks of support services and ending up homeless at a disproportionate rate. Dani Wright Toussaint, who has recently been appointed to a new Trans Homelessness Pathways project, says mainstream support services can be discriminatory because of their strict focus on “men’s” or “women’s” shelter, while they’re often completely overlooking…

THE Friends of Anzac Cottage are putting on a free concert to mark the 102nd anniversary of construction of the little Mt Hawthorn cottage that was donated to Private John Porter when he returned from the Great War in 1916. The cottage was constructed in one day by 200 volunteers, and it’s been kept going…

MOUNT LAWLEY senior high school students grilled local pollies at a panel discussion on Monday. The 100 students from year 10 to 12 served up questions to Mt Lawley Labor MP Simon Millman, Perth Labor MP John Carey, Stirling mayor Mark Irwin and Liberal party federal VP Fay Duda. “I’m thrilled that so many young…

THE call’s gone out again for Vincent residents to help the local council decide how to spend its budget. Back in 2016 the council ditched the old “here’s the budget, what do you think” method of consultation, which mayor Emma Cole says didn’t deliver a great deal of community feedback. Instead the council asked for…

IN last week’s story (“Historic Letter,” Perth Voice, March 24, 2018) we incorrectly described Mount Lawley MP Simon Millman as being in the Liberal party. He’s definitely Labor, having said in his inaugural parliamentary speech that he’d voted Labor his whole life.

THE Palm Sunday Walk for Justice for Refugees had its best-ever turnout in Perth over the weekend, with 1500 people marching in the CBD. Uniting Church social justice officer Kate Leaney said the turnout demonstrated the community’s growing concern over the Turnbull government’s treatment of asylum seekers. “I really just think it’s telling of how…

A GROUP of 22 cyclists ditched their skid lids on Saturday to ride from Maylands to the CBD as part of a national protest against helmet laws. Australia was the first country to introduce mandatory helmets in 1990 and there’s been ongoing debate about whether they make cyclists safer or simply put people off a…

MORE paid parking in Mt Lawley could be the final straw for struggling businesses, say local traders. Recently Stirling councillors voted to abolish free parking on Field Street and in more sections of Beaufort Street. Motorists parking on Field Street or at 679/680 Beaufort Street will now get the first 60 minutes for free, but…