BAYSWATER council wants to hear what locals reckon about the historical significance of Halliday Park, with the chance of giving it stronger heritage protection hinted as a possibility. But the man who’s fought hardest for the park’s history to be recognised says the process is “just a complete and utter waste of money”. Town planner…

MORE than 80 concerned locals turned up to a meeting on the weekend over the poor health of the Brearley and Bungana Lakes in Maylands. The lakes are suffering toxic levels of algae. Stenches waft up towards nearby houses. Fountains have had to be turned off to avoid kicking up nasties into the air. The…

GAS supplier ATCO did not set up portable showers at a Tenth Ave complex as we reported last week (“Jim tips a bucket on hot water cut”). The complex’s strata company had to run the showers because pipe problems that were leading to gas leaks were its responsibility, not ATCO’s.

PERTH city council is cracking down hard on homeless people camping out at Heirisson Island/Matagarup. On Tuesday and Wednesday rangers accompanied by police swept through the camp to confiscate goods. The camp has become a home to political activists, homeless people and even a couple of backbackers. The raids were of an intensity that has…

PERTH city council will no longer accept the free tickets it has long been showered with for providing sponsorship. The Voice has been reporting for years about lord mayors and councillors being provided VIP tickets — some worth hundreds of dollars each — which were essentially bought using ratepayers’ money. The excuse has always been…

BAYSWATER councillors will rally at parliament house Thursday against a proposed concrete batching plant. The councillors decided on the protest after the EPA refused last week to assess the proposal, despite the city’s environmental concerns about the project. The council has been fighting the proposed plant for five years, concerned with dust pollution and proximity…

A LOCAL Bayswater association is providing free furniture and household goods to survivors of domestic violence. “We have walked into a place where they had moved three days ago and they haven’t got a fridge, they’ve been living on takeaway food and they were all sleeping on the floor,” says SOS founder Debbie Mason. “Then…

IN defiance of Perth city council’s extreme level of secrecy, councillor Reece Harley will publicly release statements to show how much ratepayers’ money he’s claiming for expenses. Councillors are entitled to reimbursement of up to $13,360 a year on expenses like travel to council events, cost of phone and internet, training, clothing, and things like…

FOR two weeks, 90-year-old Jim Grace has been showering with a bucket and been unable to use his gas stove. He is one of more than 100 Maylands tenants affected by gas being cut off following the detection of leaks in their Tenth Avenue strata complex. Mr Grace and his neighbours have been told by…

WITH a few final pleas of support from locals, Vincent city council voted Tuesday to give a symbolic thumbs up to WA transport’s bike boulevard plan for Shakespeare Street in Mount Hawthorn. The project’s designed to make the street safer for bike-riding, slowing traffic down to 30kph and installing treatments to make it crystal clear…