WHITE pride posters have popped up in Maylands and Northbridge as part of an organised city-wide propaganda campaign. The posters were first noticed in Fremantle bearing slogans like, “the white family is a beautiful one”. Bayswater councillor Catherine Ehrhardt let us know they’d been spotted in Maylands too, with one of them imploring people to…

A BODY found in Kings Park around 9.30pm on Monday night is believed to be missing man Dino Hadzic (right). For the past two weeks posters across Perth and widely-shared social media posts have urged people to report any sighting of the 32-year-old, who’s been missing since the morning of April 10 when he left…

THE Mount Hawthorn Streets and Lanes Festival is back on for Sunday May 7, and it’s reviving the ridiculously popular dog show. It’s the third MHSLF put on by the local traders collective Mount Hawthorn Hub and a bulk of the funding is from Vincent council. Last year 55,000 people come down to the street…

AN attempt to uncover why Perth council’s media staff have stopped responding to The Perth Voice has been shot down by lord mayor Lisa Scaffidi and councillors Keith Yong, Lily Chen and Judy McEvoy. The Voice has gone 18 months without getting a meaningful response to our questions. At Tuesday’s council meeting, Cr Reece Harley…

OVER 50 ideas on how to spend Vincent council’s budget have been submitted by the community this year. Ideas ranged from a dog playground to a request to commemorate the 1933 secessionist movement. It’s the second year Vincent’s let locals put forward ideas in a simple way, and it’s led to 15-fold increase in the…

A PLAN to record Perth council committee meetings and make them publicly available has been shot down by lord mayor Lisa Scaffidi and her allies. Council meetings are uploaded, but anyone wanting to hear what happens at the committee meetings, held around 4pm, has to attend in person. Cr Jemma Green said that in line…

A COALITION of support agencies and advocate groups that work in prisons has backed corrective services minister Fran Logan’s idea of releasing low-risk prisoners. Social Reinvestment WA says keeping fine defaulters in prison at a cost of $772 a day is economic mismanagement, when they can be put on community work orders for just $24…

LORD mayor Lisa Scaffidi has demanded the state government put a freeze on a parking tax it imposes on her council. Inner-city councils have to pay the state government an ever-rising amount for parking bays located in large sections of Perth, West Perth, East Perth and Northbridge. The money is meant to be used to…

STIRLING Cr David Lagan wants to stop elected members travelling to international conferences in the last six months of their term. “My concern was that this travel, so late on in an elected member’s term, has a lack of benefit for ratepayers,” he says. Cr Lagan withdrew his motion after city officers recommended an amendment…

THE supreme court has probably put the final nail in the coffin for an attempt by a community group to get the full raft of stops for the old bus route 15 from Perth CBD to Glendalough reinstated. It was a long fight and local Tad Krysiak gave them a run for their money, forming…