STIRLING councillors weren’t shown the results of a survey showing overwhelming support for cat containment when voting to proceed with a local law that looks set to kick the issue down the road again. At its last meeting the council agreed to move forward with amendments to its Keeping and Control of Cats Local Law,…

A BAYSWATER councillor has called on the landowners of two key sites in the city to clean them up, saying they’ve been left to become graffiti-covered eyesores. Elli Petersen-Pik has been raising questions about the old Williamson’s Motor House and Albany Bell Hatchery on Guildford Road for a couple of months, and says the tagging…

A PERTH-based lobby group for seniors and people with disabilities has called for the scrapping of a proposed roundabout at the intersection of Scarborough Beach Road and Green Street. The intersection’s odd configuration has long been a bane of drivers and sees its fair share of rear-enders, but Sandbag convenor Tad Krysiak says Main Roads’…

STIRLING’S trackless tram trial has picked up a national award for innovation. The tram project won the Productivity through Infrastructure category at the 2024 National Awards for Local Government, with Stirling CEO Stevan Rodic accepting the award from prime minister Anthony Albanese while on the annual pilgrimage to Canberra to lobby for project funding. To…

PARLIAMENT HOUSE was filled with the voices of WA’s future leaders this week as 59 young people representing the state’s electorates presented and debated eight bills for the 2024 Y WA Youth Parliament.  The bills were drafted when participants were divided into eight committees aligned with government portfolios, with half drafted into a government and…

AUSTRALIAN playwright Suzie Miller’s one-woman play, Prima Facie has taken world stages by storm from Sydney to London’s West End and to Broadway.  The British National Theatre’s video version is its best-selling production and is compulsory viewing for trainee judges in at least one UK jurisdiction.  Now, in this new Black Swan Theatre production it…

A GROUP of WA-based conservation groups have banded together to launch an AI-generated advertising campaign to push the Cook government into introducing stronger conservation laws.  Defend WA’s Nature comprises the Australian Marine Conservation Society, Environs Kimberley, the WA Forest Alliance, and the Conservation Council of WA.  The “highly realistic” campaign photos depict native WA species…

TWO controversial Claisebrooke concrete batching plants have been given another extension to operate for 3.5 years, but with a firm timeline from the WA Planning Commission to move out.  Holcim and Hanson were read the riot act by WAPC chairman David Caddy, who said they would have to lodge alternative site applications and commence building…

THE WA Apiarists’ Society wants the City of Stirling to allow people to keep more beehives if they have bigger properties, and do away with a council permit. Stirling is currently reviewing a bunch of local laws, including the one regulating beekeeping, which WAAS says should be updated so it is in line with modern…

A NOTORIOUS Homeswest high-rise tower that’s been vacant for around a decade while homelessness numbers continued to rise, is finally facing the wrecking ball. On Wednesday the Cook government announced that Brajkovich Demolition & Salvage had been appointed to demolish Stirling Towers in Smith Street, Highgate. The demolition will pave the way for the construction…