HISTORIC sewer vents around Perth will be preserved with heritage protection, but a grand Tudor-style mansion in King’s Park wasn’t as fortunate, with bulldozers due to close on the century-old house in the next few days. The vents scattered around the CBD were installed between 1911 and 1928 and stand between 11 and 16 metres…

THE future of an iconic, toddler-friendly waterpark in Maylands is in doubt after a council review revealed potentially lethal safety issues that would require $2.7 million to fix. A $20,000 report of Waterland reveals several areas of the park fail to meet legislative standards or need urgent maintenance, including: • all metal objects bigger than…

ABORIGINAL elder and activist Bella Bropho still sleeps out on Heirisson Island despite Perth city council and police repeatedly confiscating tents and bedrolls to stop camping. In an open letter sent to the PCC this week, Ms Bropho accuses the council of having “extended the limitations of your authority under the laws of WA and…

SOME of Stirling’s concrete bus shelters look like leftovers from Soviet Russia and need upgrading, says Cr David Michael. He wants the council to take a leaf out of neighbouring Vincent’s hipster book and upgrade bus stops so they’re modern and offer protection from the elements. “There are 17 types of bus stops in Stirling…

ONE of the most glaring gaps in Perth’s bike lane network will soon be fixed, with the Barnett government kicking in $2.9 million and Perth city council $200,000 in to install a shared bike path along Roe Street. It’ll head west from the train station and be a shared path, even though international walking expert…

FOR thousands of years before modern science confirmed the facts, Nyoongar storytellers passed down memories of a time when the mainland was linked with Wadjemup (much, much later to be named Rottnest Island). A new Perth-produced documentary Walking Together—Belonging to Country (Djena Koorliny Danjoo Boodjar-ang) explored the similarities between Aboriginal and western scientific understandings of…

A SHORT film about awkward situations in a disabled toilet has seen two filmmakers selected for the Revelations Film festival. Miley Tunnecliffe and Jess Black lead a female-strong crew Red Milestone Productions in an industry where it’s still rare to see women working on the technical or directing side of things. With a decade between…

ELEVEN-YEAR-OLD Lauren Campbell has been doing her bit to clean her local park. She reckons smokers tossing butts and coffee-sippers tossing cups are the biggest culprits. For a school project she was asked to pick a way to help the world: she started close to home—Mount Hawthorn’s Braithwaite Park, right across the street. “We’ve lived…

SAMANTHA JENKINSON is pushing for more adult change tables and free recharge points for electric wheelchairs in Stirling. Currently there is a non-height adjustable change table at the Terry Tyzack Aquatic Centre, and another at the Perth train station. “It’s basically a table that can be moved up and down with a hoist for adults…

Dungnabbit WA police are doing a crappy job in Northbridge on weekends. Saturday and Sunday morning as you walk, cycle or jog around James Street, Beaufort Street, near McIver train station there they are—blobs of horse manure. Nobody to clean it up. Doesn’t the commissioner have a clean-up squad? Do the manufacturers of disposable baby…