CAROLYN ORR is a neurologist and clinical researcher who was arrested in 2021 as part of a protest calling for urgent action on climate change. Dr Orr, a Mount Lawley resident, was back protesting on April 17 as part of the “Perth Stops for Climate” protest where she compared fossil fuel companies to the tobacco…

AN unpopular traffic diversion trial that divided a North Perth neighbourhood has been called in for review early. In February Vincent council installed a concrete barrier to diagonally block off Leak Street and Alma Road for a six-month trial.  It was intended as a traffic calming measure that was only supported by a slim number of…

NUMBERED marbles, each representing a day of the year, placed in a barrel.  A number randomly picked by hand corresponded to the days of the year, and if you were a 20-year-old man and your birthday came up, you’d be required to present yourself for national service. For Bruce Wiltshire, marbles were drawn out for…

TODAY’S tale from Vincent’s local history librarians is about Horry’s Tree, planted as thousands of Aussies and New Zealanders left WA for the battlefields of Europe, and the young girl it inspired who’s off on the learning experience of a lifetime. MT HAWTHORN student Elizaveta Fedotova is one of 10 student ambassadors selected to take…

LIKE the sugar hits nutritionists warned were being encouraged, the huge hype that saw Perth supermarkets mobbed by teens trying to get their hands on Prime drinks seems to have disappeared. “Parents back ban on Prime,” Voice, Saturday April 1, 2023). Launched as a collaboration between popular media figures Logan Paul and KSI, Prime caused a…

FLORENCE, Evelina and Rose check out Vincent council’s new all-ages playground which has just opened on the corner of Sydney and Haynes streets in North Perth. Part of the Haynes Street Reserve development, the playground is the first area to be opened to the public and includes a log scramble, cubby, basket swing, tightropes, stilt…

ONLINE multicultural radio station Global Chat Radio is on a mission to keep Western Australian migrants connected with their culture, but needs more volunteers to make it happen.  Founder Franco Smargiassi, who migrated from Italy as a child, describes WA’s culture as “rich” but says over time those who have migrated to Australia have been…

“EVERYBODY has a backstory” and artist Alun Bartsch brings his subjects’ tales into focus in his first solo photography exhibition Backstories. Bartsch, a Coolbinia local, had a 30-year career in advertising and now works in TV and film production. Work has taken him around the world, to Turkey, Spain, Italy, Greece, China, and back here. …

  A HUGE patch of Bayswater’s industrial zone is yet to be connected to modern sewerage, which is holding the district back, threatening trade jobs, and possibly poisoning the groundwater. Instead of pipes the industrial zone inhabitants mostly use septic tanks or aerobic treatment units, which aren’t always suitable for modern industrial uses and are…

AFTER a three-year break the popular Mount Hawthorn Hawkers Market returns to Axford Park for a pop-up preview this Friday April 14.  Vincent council’s found a new operator in Roz Collins, whose events company In the Bag Promotions has run the Saturday morning Kyilla Community Farmers Market. They’re fitting in one pop-up hawkers market before…