BAYSWATER city council has awarded a $2.9 million tender for a nutrients-stripping wetland at the Eric Singleton bird sanctuary. It is part of a joint project with the Swan River Trust to be ensure the long-term health of the wetlands. It is estimated the work, scheduled to start in summer, will prevent around 40 tonnes…

INVESTIGATIONS by Bayswater city council into potentially contaminated sites could stall due to a lack of funding. The council is investigating 19 sites which could be potentially contaminated. Based on advice from the WA environmental regulation department, Bayswater Riverside Gardens (east and west), Maylands peninsula golf course, Maylands yacht club and Eric Singleton Bird Sanctuary…

PERTH computer game developers are down to their last token after the Abbott government cut Screen Australia funding by $25 million in the federal budget. SA has since announced it will shut down its $20m interactive games fund a year early and will not accept any more applications for games funding. Let’s Make Games general…

AFTER a suicide, eight convictions, a three-year investigation and almost $1 million recovered, a final corruption and crime commission report on rorts at Stirling city council is imminent. In 2010 a CCC inquiry revealed collusion dating back to 2003. Investigators believed a former building manager had received kickbacks in return for guaranteeing contracts to suppliers,…

TWO BUCKS for train station parking doesn’t sound like much but for cancer carer Ray Payne its contributing to a $700 a year hit he could do without. The 64-year-old looks after his friend Jennifer Porter (57) recently diagnosed with kidney cancer. Ms Porter doesn’t have a car so every week Mr Payne drives her…

A YELLOW CARD has been issued to Paddington Alehouse’s bid to screen World Cup games throughout the night and into the early morning. A 4-3 vote at Vincent council looks like cruelling the bid, with councillors concerned noise, parking and general soccer-related hooliganism may upset Mt Hawthorn locals. The application now goes into extra time,…

BAYSWATER and Bassendean councils are at it again. The soon-to-be-amalgamated pair has fallen out over proposed ward boundaries for the new super council, with Bayswater resolving that Bassendean’s proposal “treats the existing Bayswater residents with disdain and irrelevance by not having any regard to the existing north, central and west wards which have been in…

VINCENT city council is considering legal action against the Barnett government over mergers says mayor John Carey. Mr Carey broke the news at a special electors’ meeting Monday night, addressing a 90-strong crowd who’d gathered to debate local government reform. He said the council was involved with the councils for democracy group—which is lobbying for…

NERVOUS kangaroos and Yagan’s genitals are proving to be sticking points for staging 5km runs on Heirisson Island. Organisers of Parkrun stage a weekly event around Claisebrook Cove and are keen to start another at Heirisson Island, an area known as Matagarup to local Nyoongars. The Whadjuk working party, which provides advice on sites of…

AFTER a fierce propaganda war was waged on the streets for and against underground power, Vincent councillors have decided to roll it out in North Perth’s Brookman and Moir Streets precinct. Some residents like Mark Greenshields are keen to get power lines buried, hoping it’ll improve the heritage streetscape by no longer having to butcher…