WA Labor has pledged $30 million towards upgrading Dorrien Gardens and the WA Italian Club in West Perth if it wins the March 8 state election, including the construction of 240 apartments along Fitzgerald and Lawley Streets. The redevelopment was adopted by Vincent council in November 2024 and includes a new public piazza and joint…

STIRLING council has quietly stuck the knife into locally-owned legacy media and will instead line the pockets of billionaire US technocrats like Elon Musk and Mark Zuckerberg when advertising development applications. Tucked away in an attachment to this week’s council agenda – which sailed through without a single debate on any item – council staff…

WHEN the apartment block Lucyanna came on the market in 2021, it was an “investor’s dream”; 24 apartments tucked away just behind Inglewood’s main strip. But neighbours say since the Department of Communities snapped up the property that dream has turned into a nightmare because of the anti-social behaviour of some of its new tenants.…

FARRINGTON Road is set to become less dangerous after the WA government announced safety upgrades for the stretch east of Bibra Drive.  The upgrade will include a signalised pedestrian crossing near the intersection of Aulberry Parade, which services the nearby Leeming Senior High School and the local shopping centre on Farrington Road.  Additionally, the speed…

THE sudden and totally unexpected closures of the cafes at the Fremantle Arts and Leisure Centres is an unmitigated disaster for the City of Fremantle’s competitive leasing program. It is too simplistic to only blame operators Gavin and Penny Wilcock of GAP Kitchens for their naivety in taking them on without cafe experience.  They were…

SOME call her the Queen of Fremantle, and it’s an apt name given Rosslyn de Souza was crowned Community Citizen of the Year last week for her long-standing contribution to Fremantle’s arts and culture scene. A 30-year resident and art curator, Ms de Souza was the driving force behind the Outside the Box Gallery in…

THE state candidates for Fremantle faced off in a tumultuous and entertaining “great debate” at Notre Dame on Wednesday evening.  Natashia Boland from the Animal Justice Party, the Greens’ Felicity Townsend, independent Kate Hulett, and WA Labor’s Simone McGurk were all brave enough to face a 300-strong crowd full of Fremantle’s passionate voter base.  Liberal…

THE newly-announced Liberal candidate for Fremantle says she will push for $500,000 of “critical” funding to restore the Round House.  Serena Kipling, who was revealed as the Liberal candidate less than two weeks ago, says the funding will “support both colonial and Indigenous” historical interpretation as part of the restoration.  “Long-overdue” conservation works for the…

VINCENT council is paying $1500 a month to store a sculpture it commissioned but couldn’t install, and now has a second $215,000 public art project on the verge of collapse. Back in 2021 the council launched the Arts Rebound: Town Centre Artworks program to stimulate the arts community after Covid forced the cancellation of live…

VINCENT council will be hosting the Sounds of Warndoolier next Saturday February 22, marking the launch of the City’s Reconciliation Action Plan. Warndoolier was recently renamed, reverting back to how it had been identified in early maps rather than Banks Reserve as it has been known since 1963.   Outlining its Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander…