UNIONISTS staged a noisy die-in to pressure the WA branch of the Mediterranean Shipping Company to drop an Israeli collaborator. A handful of police watched as protesters gathered outside MSC’s office calling for it to cut ties with ZIM Integrated Shipping Services, an Israeli-owned company it signed a collaboration agreement with last year to swap…

IMMERSED in the stunning landscape of the Torbay Inlet near Albany and far from madding crowds, acclaimed fiddler Robert Zielinski’s head filled with music. Inspired by the gentle awakening of dawn and  serene starlit nights under the karri forest’s canopy, Zielinski listened deeply to the sounds around him and was inspired to compose a suite…

THEY were once a quintessential part of the Australian landscape and a social hub for their communities, but a recent bid to give a Mt Hawthorn corner deli a new lease of life has split the neighbourhood. Number 5 Berryman Street has been a residential home for the past 62 years, but at the front…

THE North Perth Bowling and Recreation Club’s resurgence has put such pressure on its grass greens that it’s decided its time to convert one to a synthetic surface. Back in 2017, the club was just about on its knees (but not in a great drive to the jack kind of way) with only 50 bowlers…

EIGHTY cars will be queuing up to turn into East Parade from Guildford Road by 2026 unless a double slip lane is added to the latter – putting more pressure on Vincent council to delist a heritage home that’s in the way. The traffic queue would result in more rear-end accidents and leave drivers waiting…

RESIDENTS along Brisbane Street have just scraped in to get some traffic calming measures from Vincent council. The residents had submitted a small petition to the council last month and included a survey of neighbours who’d got fed up with the near misses and congestion on the strip between Lake and Palmerston Streets. The council’s…

GETTING therapeutic benefits might seem an unusual side-effect to forging a weapon of war, but bowyer and archer Lars Richter says there’s a lot more to making your own longbow than whittling a piece of wood into shape. “A bow can be used not just as a sport or a tool to hunt for food,…

WA’S most talented cheerleaders will be jet-setting to the United States next week for the International Cheer Union World Cheerleading Championships in Orlando, Florida.  Five teams representing Australia will be competing at the championships, but the junior team is predominantly made up of WA athletes aged between 14 and 18 – just two are from…

MT LAWLEY Labor MP Simon Millman says he got a bit of pro bono legal advice before this week’s announcement that he’d be stepping down from his seat at the next election. Mr Millman recently caught up with some old mates who’d risen to become judges and senior barristers while he was on his political…

LOCALS noticing a massive die-off of trees around Voiceland have raised fears WA is in the grip of a drought and have called for more government action. Driving their fears is that many native trees and bushes appear to be affected far more than usual, and they fear climate change means it’s only going to…