A LINEUP of formidable local women gather for a panel discussion in Bayswater for International Women’s Day. Keynote speaker is 2023 Bayswater Community Citizen of the Year Sue Fletcher, a medical researcher who developed three drugs to treat Duchenne Muscular Dystrophy. She’s joined by a panel discussion on breakthroughs and barriers women have faced in…

THE Rebound WA Para Sport Festival returns to Yagan Square Friday March 10. Athletes from a bevy of professional and amateur sports organisations will be along, featuring exhibition matches of wheelchair football and basketball. The public can also try out goal ball, archery, lawn bowls and wheelchair basketball. Rebound WA CEO Simon Mead said: “For…

OUR story about Perth ratepayer Adin Lang’s attempts to get the City moving on cat containment laws, and particularly local government minister John Carey’s letter in response that said stray moggies weren’t a big problem at Kings Park, certainly put the cat amongst the pigeons. We couldn’t fit all the letters and submissions we received…

WITH their experiences often misrepresented or told by non-Aboriginal people, four First Nations photographers will share their stories firsthand in an exhibition of recent works at the Perth Centre of Photography. The “Exposure: New Voices in Australian Photography” project was started by PCP board member Glenn Iseger Pilkington, intending to make sure First Nations voices…

A 40KMH trial on local roads across southern Vincent only led to a one kilometre-per-hour drop in average speeds. Despite the modest impact, the council still wants to roll out 40kmh across all its local roads.  The council started the trial in 2019, and consultation with locals in September 2022 found 57 per cent of…

BASKETBALL would be impossible to play at nearly all outdoor courts if draft state noise guidelines were applied, Stirling mayor Mark Irwin warns. The WA Department of Water and Environmental Regulation has drafted guidelines on “minimising noise impact from outdoor community basketball facilities”.  The guidelines come after a series of suburban courts being shut down in…

WOMEN living homeless on Perth’s streets fear they’ll have no place to go if funding is cut off for the Safe Night Space in East Perth. Perth council is mulling over whether to stretch the budget to keep Safe Night Space going another 6-12 months. “We’d be lost without this place,” one woman sleeping in…

MANY ventures have come and gone on Oxford Street over the years, and this week historians from the Vincent Local History Centre archives delve into the many lives of the iconic 123 Oxford Street: from rowdy whippet club, upmarket makeover, to the colourful Greens & Co and beyond OXFORD STREET in Leederville has seen many…

City forced to cut down infected plane tree THE pernicious polyphagous shot hole borer has infested a Hyde Park plane tree so badly it’s been cut down.  As a result of the killer bug’s discovery, the iconic treeline of adjacent Mary Street is being closely monitored for fear of spread.  Less than a year ago…

AFTER a decades-long search the Football Hall of Fame WA has found a home for a museum, nestled in Fitzgerald Street’s WA Italian Club. Until now there’s been nowhere to safely house memorabilia from the state’s 127 years of football (the ‘soccer’ type) together. FHOFWA president Elizabeth Re says she’s heard some tragic tales of…