AN eagle-eyed ratepayer has called out Vincent council for plagiarising so heavily from the City of Townsville’s CCTV policy that it’s own draft version quotes Queensland legislation that’s not relevant to WA. Brendan Bensky, who’s got an interest in privacy policy, says aside from the red faces such a gaffe should produce, it’s made him…

QUEEN ELIZABETH II will be recognised by having a Stirling council meeting lounge named after her, a firm sign the council’s intent on returning to its Commonwealth naming tradition after a brief push to use more Aboriginal names. Last week councillor Suzanne Migdale put up a motion calling on the council to name a facility…

HYDE PARK hosts a free music gig with local musos jamming against the growth of fracking projects in the Kimberley on April 23 at 1pm. Campaigners Lock the Gate are bringing in local musos Anna Schneider, Georga Rath, and Broome’s Tanya Ransom, along with Banjo Lucia, who’s following in the musical and activist path of…

A BID to get more trees on Bayswater’s barren verges has been shut down by a knife-edge vote by council. Currently the council’s policy states “generally” one tree gets planted on the verge per property. Sometimes council staff decide a property is long enough to warrant a second tree, or if a resident thinks to…

LAKE MONGER may be officially known by its traditional name Galup in recognition of the site’s significance to Whadjuk Noongars. Noongar elders Liz Hayden, Glenda Kickett, Lois May and Ted Wilkes recently met with Cambridge town councillors and staff to make the case for calling the lake Galup, which means a place of home fires. …

CORRECTION: The initial version of this article incorrectly stated the JDAP voted to approve the development, but they’ve voted to defer it for now. THE state government’s Joint Development Assessment Panel has deferred plans for a five-storey apartment building on a Coolbinia site that’s only meant to have three. Local residents had hoped the JDAP…

AS the last train to stop at the old Bayswater railway platform pulled away last Friday, a new generation of trainspotters came out to mark the rainy, late-night milestone.  The 1960s-built island platform is being demolished for a new larger one as part of Metronet upgrades for the airport line. YouTuber Mark Steffens runs the channel…

THIS week from the Vincent library we have a guest piece by Friends of Local History volunteer MICHELLE VERCOE, who’s delved into the archives (and some old Voice newspapers) to bring us the story of a prominent lost building, the 1897-built Norwood Hotel. THE Norwood Hotel stood on the corner of Windsor and Lord streets…

KIDS from Circus WA will be bringing back a colourful, century-old piece of Perth’s history for the Boorloo Heritage Festival on Saturday April 15. The circus’s youth training arm Level Up Academy is recreating acts from Uglieland, a carnival operated by the charitable Ugly Men’s Association from 1922 to the early ‘30s on what is now…

MT HAWTHORN Primary School has parents on board with its decision to ban Prime hydration drinks sold by YouTube stars KSI and Logan Paul. The decision follows a frenzy of young adolescents storming Woolworths stores around Perth to get their hands on a bottle of Prime earlier this week.  Mt Hawthorn parent Dan Loden said he…