NEW local government minister Paul Miles has backed lord mayor Lisa Scaffidi’s stance on forbidding councillors speaking to the media Opposition leader Mark McGowan has reiterated calls for the council to be sacked. Three councillors — Jemma Green, Reece Harley and James Limnios — want the policy scrapped so they can communicate their views to…

HISTORICAL tapestries depicted 240 years of Quaker history in Australia are going on display at Quaker Meeting House in Mt Lawley. The Quakers separated from the Church of England in the mid-1600s and are marked by their strong pro-peace stance and emphasis on worldly works. They have a long tradition of tapestry, with one of…

THE eighth annual Perth Heritage Days are on this weekend with the theme; “Perth — How We Worked”.  Heritage Perth is running tours of historic places like Government House, the 1892 Palace Hotel, and the newly (and splendidly) restored Trades Hall on Beaufort Street which was done up when CFMEU moved in. There’s even a…

PERTH lord mayor Lisa Scaffidi has been reported to the local government standards panel for allowing ally Janet Davidson to steal fellow councillor Jemma Green’s thunder over a vote on a media gag. Cr Green had put forward a notice of motion before the September 20 meeting which would have paved the way for councillors…

LORD mayor Lisa Scaffidi was quizzed by a Northbridge local at Tuesday’s council meeting over a donation to councillor Lily Chen’s campaign for the state seat of Mirrabooka. Graham Hansen submitted the question, which read: “I understand that you donated a gift to Lily Chen’s election campaign for the Liberal Party in the seat of…

THE public transport authority has removed three bus stops along a discontinued stretch of bus route 15 despite a challenge to the service’s axing being before WA’s supreme court. Members of the Senior and Disabled Bus Action Group (Sandbag) claim Transperth discriminated against people with poor mobility when it changed route 15 last year, with…

WA LABOR is still butting heads with the Barnett government following a decision to pull support from a handful of childcare centres around the State. Of the 310 not-for-profit community childcare centres in WA, 33 operate from state-managed properties with rent and maintenance assistance, but this is set to cease from June 2018. Equal playing…

WORK on Highgate primary school’s eight new classrooms is due to start soon, says Perth MLA Eleni Evangel. The $6.5 million, two-storey building will go on the corner of Lincoln Street and Bulwer Avenue in Highgate. When Ms Evangel was elected to state parliament in 2013, she said school upgrades were one of her “primary…

ARCHEOLOGISTS have uncovered historic artefacts around the old WA museum site, digging up century old crucibles used to smelt minerals at the old geology lab plus an adorable old pipe with a small face on it that came from the old gaol. The museum, in the Perth Cultural Centre, is in the midst of a…