Perth lord mayor Lisa Scaffidi is bringing some Britpop to Perth. Photoshop image. London taxis are set to hit the streets of Perth. The WA transport department confirms it is planning to trial up to 100 purpose-built cabs in the metropolitan area for four years. The DOT is seeking expressions of interest from manufacturers until August…

The Liberal Party was a no-show at a packed climate change forum Monday night with federal Tangney MP Dennis Jensen pulling out just days beforehand and no other candidate or MP willing to stand in. The WA Civil Society roundtable at UWA was hosted by Fiona Stanley and saw Labor’s Alannah MacTiernan debating Greens senator…

Vincent locals will march at 2pm today, Saturday August 10, to protest their community being split down the middle by premier Colin Barnett. Mt Lawley couple Gabrielle Mews and Trevor Cross have lived on Chelmsford Road for 15 years and are in the part of Vincent being shipped off to Stirling. Since hearing the news…

The Mt Lawley Society is planning a town hall-style meeting to protest Colin Barnett’s plan to merge Mt Lawley into Bayswater. Astor Theatre owner Bruce Zimmerman has offered his theatre, free of charge, for the event. “I want the council boundaries to stay the same,” he says. “This is an important issue for the community…

“I heard you have accommodation. I don’t have anywhere to live and I need a place for me and my grandson to stay—I’m praying for a miracle.” Those were the words of Veronica Wallam, a 65-year-old homeless woman, when she rang St Bart’s shelter earlier this year. Ms Wallam—with 14-year-old grandson Zachari in tow—is one…

Labor candidate Dan Caddy (right) is prepared to make big sacrifices to wrest the federal seat of Stirling from Liberal frontbencher Michael Keenan. He is a single dad with a nine-year-old son and, if elected, will have to spend umpteen weeks in Canberra every year. “My son’s old enough to Skype and his mother lives…

The Help End Marijuana Prohibition Party says it can’t get any WA candidates to stand at the federal election because they’re scared of being pinged by the cops. President Michael Balderstone and Tayla Moylan, 18, are listed as HEMP’s WA senate candidates, but both live in NSW. “No-one was keen to put their hand up…

Jonathan Hallett has put his hand up for the Greens in Perth for a fourth time. The 32-year-old Northbridge local has stood for the state seat twice and in the 2010 federal poll scored a 5.8 per cent swing. A lecturer and researcher at Curtin university’s school of public health, Mr Hallett was preselected unopposed…

Auto-Loos costing between $125,000 and a quarter-of-a-million bucks each will be installed around Perth to deal with the capital’s crippling crapper shortage. The PCC has voted unanimously to pay WC Convenience Management an estimated $650,000 for providing four to eight toilets. The extravagantly named Exeloo Saturn 21 costs $126,656, the Exeloo Jupiter 21 Heritage $208,631,…

Kangaroos could be bounced from Stirling bushland and replaced with apartments. In 2010 the council permitted Channel 7—owned by billionaire Kerry Stokes—to redevelop its old Tuart Hill site, under the proviso the roos in neighbouring Cottonwood Crescent bushland must stay put. But developers have pushed the care onus back onto council, and staff complain managing…