A MAYLANDS restauranteur says UberEats’ high charges could send him broke if he signed up to the service. UberEats deliverers, with cube-shaped backpacks, have become a common sight in the inner-city, with more than 300 restaurants signed-up, and other restaurants using rival services like Deliveroo. Francesco Deiana runs Café Pizzeria Amore Mio and says he…

THE heavy machinery has fired up again at the D’Orazio family-owned block next to the Eric Singleton Bird Sanctuary. Workers at the Bayswater site are under strict orders not to speak about what’s going on. When resident Giorgia Johnson approached one of the workers, he wouldn’t speak to her, instead holding up a sign with…

IN the wake of the tragic Grenfell Tower fire in London, Bayswater councillor Chris Cornish has called for an audit of the city’s high-rise buildings to see if they contain the highly flammable aluminium composite cladding. The cladding is banned in the USA and parts of Europe and is about $5 cheaper per square metre…

LAWYERS for the Local Government Department are calling for a six-month suspension for lord mayor Lisa Scaffidi for not declaring travel and gift contributions. Their request for a hefty penalty was based on Ms Scaffidi doling out blame to others and their contention that she could commit the same breaches again. Ms Scaffidi’s lawyer Steven…

NEW Vincent councillor Jonathan Hallett has asked  for the city’s gender pay gap to be included in the city’s annual reports. The difference between men’s and women’s average full time earnings is about 20 per cent in the private sector and 12 per cent in the public sector, according to the government’s Workplace Gender Equality…

NEIGHBOURHOOD centres are under further threat because of government cutbacks and reforms. The centres recently lost a rental subsidy and will soon have to compete for funding against private operators hoping to move into the community support sector, says Jane Chilcott from Linkwest, the peak body for neighbourhood and community centres. Ms Chilcott describes the…

AFTER years of negotiations between councils, state and federal governments there’s finally some action on the diabolical Beaufort Street/Walcott Street intersection,  with a trial restricting right turns in an effort to reduce prangs and increase pedestrian safety (it’s the eighth most dangerous intersection in WA according to the RAC). It was one of the election…

Youth drop-in centre too close to brothels and homes say locals OPENING a homeless drop-in centre in Edward Street in Perth will create more antisocial behaviour around Weld Square, say concerned locals. With two brothels nearby, locals are also worried the location is inappropriate for vulnerable youth. Vinnies’ Passages Resource Centre opened on Palmerston Street…

IT’S bikes versus banksias at Lightning Park, with locals concerned a proposed BMX and mountain bike track could impact the sensitive bush and wetlands at Lightning Swamp. Local bike enthusiast Rob Evans has been working on plans for the track at the north of the reserve for about two years and wants Bayswater council to…

BAYSWATER cafe Cool Breeze has set a new benchmark for reducing waste, handing over just one bin bag to the garbos after a busy weekend’s trade. Owner Giorgia Johnson said after the ABC War on Waste series, there was a groundswell in interest in waste reduction from staff and customers at her Riverside Gardens pop-up…