THE cost of a ‘no’ vote in the upcoming referendum on an Indigenous Voice to Parliament would be the rolling back of decades of reconcilation, says advocate Thomas Mayor. Mr Mayor has been on a national “Voice, Truth and Treaty” tour since 2017 arrived in Fremantle this week to speak at today’s (Saturday January 28)…

BAYSWATER council is set to tap into the troubled carbon offset market to help fund a groundbreaking $2.4 million urban forest at Riverside Gardens. At Tuesday’s ordinary meeting the council voted to negotiate a partnership agreement with Greening Australia, who would transform the four-hectare site through Western Australia’s first Nature in Cities project. The council…

BAYSWATER will retain its four wards, but drop the number of councillors from 11 to 8 under mandated reforms. At Tuesday’s ordinary meeting the council voted to keep the wards but adjust their boundaries to accommodate future growth, shifting the boundary between North  and Central wards to Tonkin Highway in 2023; and moving part of…

PEOPLE power has helped Maylands parents convince Bayswater council to beef up its Safe Routes to School report. A petition of 243 signatures was presented to Tuesday’s meeting calling for the council to produce a comprehensive report that let the community know what safety measures were to be implemented and when. In mid-2022 the council…

BAYSWATER mayor Filomena Piffaretti has paid tribute to former Bayswater councillor Graham Pittaway, who died on January 14, aged 81. Mr Pittaway was elected to council in 2000 and was awarded a Medal of the Order of Australia for “service to the community through local government and a range of health business and educational organisations”…

Shark attack survivor questions slow response THE survivor of a shark attack at Blackwall Reach two years ago says he’s disappointed a shark barrier still hasn’t been installed in the river, though Melville council says it’s still working on the project. Cameron Wrathall was 100 metres from shore on January 14, 2021 when he was…

WITH school holidays wrapping up this week, the City of Vincent Local History Centre finishes its series of summer tales with a story about how local kids holidayed in times past.  DURING summer school holidays in an earlier era, kids made their own fun ranging further afield than many parents would feel comfortable with today.…

THERE’S a certain irony when one of the first books to scratch away the nostalgic gloss of WA colonial art to expose the Indigenous dispossession they reveal is published by an organisation with an indelible link to the state’s controversial ‘founding father’. Artist and author Philippa O’Brien’s No Stone Without a Name explores how artists expressed…

PERTH council will be asked to look at how it can prevent cats from straying into Kings Park from its residential areas when its electors meet for their annual gathering this coming Tuesday. Fremantle councillor Adin Lang had plans to make his city’s cat controls some of the toughest in the state by banning them…

AFTER a three-year Covid-induced hiatus the Mount Hawthorn Hawkers Market is in line to return in 2023.  The markets started in 2014 and used to run every Friday during the warmer months, getting more than 500 people a week out to Axford Park. In March 2020 the market operators Heart Inspired Events announced they were…