A LOT has been said these last few weeks in Canberra about the housing crisis but here in Perth, we are living it. It’s not academic or theoretical, it’s a harsh reality that is not going away. Nearly half of all the people in inner Perth are renters, and a staggering 25 per cent of…

HEALTH insurer HBF has been squeezed out of the naming rights for Perth Oval during the upcoming Women’s World Cup by soccer’s global governing body, FIFA.  “HBF Park” has reverted to its non-commercial “Perth Rectangular Stadium” moniker for a month, with FIFA going to extraordinary lengths to make sure only its sponsors benefit from the…

ARTIFICIAL intelligence will be tasked with monitoring CCTV cameras as part of a six month trial by Bayswater council. Two of the AI-monitored cameras have been installed at Birkett Reserve in Bedford in an attempt to cut down on antisocial behaviour, and they’ve been programmed to detect suspicious activity like a large gathering of people…

THE highly damaging shothole borer infestation has spread to Robertson Park’s iconic and towering fig trees. The polyphagous shothole borer tunnels into trees to farm fungus, leaving branches brittle and often killing the tree. It was first detected in East Fremantle in August 2021, then detected in trees in Hyde Park in 2022 leading to…

David Dyke, 80, shares his idea of positive masculinity. MOST of us have experienced the corrupted energy of noxious masculinity in some way a shape or form in our lives – even if ultra fine or obvious, personal or secondary – that social distortion that tells us a man must be strong, hard, and play…

WITH the Barbie movie just days from release, toys are in the forefront of the popular consciousness, but for researcher DeeDee Noon toys are always on the mind. “Toys really are us,” Ms Noon tells us ahead of the opening of her latest exhibition.  A photographer and PhD candidate at ECU, Noon says a toy…

Brickworks THE extant Maylands Brickworks are well known, but this week the Maylands Historical and Peninsula Association hosts a talk delving into the lesser-known story of a much older brickworks operating on the river banks in the mid-1800s. Researcher Bevan Carter has dug out the tale of a clay pit, pug mill, brick cutter and…

THIS week the City of Vincent Local History Centre continues the story of soccer in Vincent with a focus on the tumultuous post-war era. IN the 1950s, the mass migration of post-war Europeans changed the face of soccer in Western Australia. The number of metropolitan teams and divisions increased, and the players and spectators came…

AFTER expressing “disappointment” over the small size of their payrise this year, Stirling councillors have voted to grant themselves superannuation and to bat away a staff recommendation to trim their IT expenses. The WA Salaries and Allowances Tribunal is in charge of setting pay rates, and increased councillor pay by 1.5 per cent this year.…

REVISIONS to a hotly criticised mixed-use development in Coolbinia have not appeased locals or Stirling councillors, who have recommended the state Development Assessment Panel reject the latest designs. Willing Property wants to build 33 residences plus shops, a cafe and a bar at the corner of Adair Parade and Walcott Street.  The five-storey project has…