Bayswater’s historical societies are irked their city is being portrayed as heritage-unfriendly by the Mount Lawley Society and Stirling city council. Under the proposed Barnett council amalgamations, Mt Lawley will become part of a new Bayswater-Bassendean super council. The MLS wants Mt Lawley to stay in Stirling, because it has heritage protection areas, and has…

Drunk, loud, loitering women leading “idle lives” in early 1900s Perth is the topic of a new book by ECU lecturer Leigh Straw. Dr Straw became interested in researching the era while investigating a 1929 murder. Poring over newspapers of the day, she was struck by the number of mugshots of women staring back at…

SINBAD’S on Beaufort Street has closed under a cloud of complaints. Stirling city councillor David Lagan says he’d been inundated with calls from residents about noise and illegal parking at the Inglewood kebab shop. “They were playing music really loud—much louder than the nearby Civic Hotel—and there were cars strewn all over the street and…

Sutherland puts South Africa trip ahead of Stay in Stirling rally The fur is flying over Mt Lawley Liberal MP Michael Sutherland missing a Stay in Stirling rally last week that attracted 400 locals opposed to being merged with Bayswater. The MP had flown to South Africa for a conference the day before the rally…

When his old church refused to let him become a member because he was gay, Graham Douglas-Meyer started up his own. Based out of the North Perth lesser hall, Open Arms Fellowship is in its early days with just a few members, but Pastor Douglas-Meyer is hoping his flock will grow. “I had that sense…

  ‘Gross act of vandalism’ A proud Bayswater resident hijacked the Stay in Stirling rally last week. Former city councillor Sally Palmer was unhappy her city was being painted by rally organisers as somewhere undesirable for heritage suburbs like Mt Lawley. Around 400 attended the Astor Theatre rally to protest the WA government’s plan to…

Stirling city council and the Mount Lawley Society are using “scaremongering tactics” to whip up opposition to council amalgamations, says Bayswater mayor Terry Kenyon. Cr Kenyon slammed the “Stay in Stirling” rally held at the Astor Theatre last week, which disparaged the notion of Mt Lawley becoming part of Bayswater Pamphlets declared, “Don’t make Bayswater…

Perth Liberal candidate and property tycoon “Dazzling” Darryl Moore is learning the hard way that what you post on the net stays on the net—forever. It’s emerged this week that on a property investor website eight years ago he’d referred to tenants as “ferals” and “illiterate” and “whinging”. Under the username “Dazzling” he’d noted that…

Perth Liberal candidate Darryl Moore says he has no regrets about entering public life. The former petroleum engineer and landlord has adopted a cautious strategy with the media after claiming his views on equal marriage were misrepresented by both the West Australian and the Voice. He now communicates with the Voice through Liberal media minder…