AN arts project about Lake Monger’s buried colonial history has won a prestigious award for its outstanding contribution truth-telling in Western Australia. The Galup art project picked up the History Council of WA award at the state library on Tuesday. Lake Monger was a traditional Noongar camping and meeting place known as Galup (Kaarlup) –…

A STATUE of pioneering politician Edith Cowan, gifted to the City of Perth, has been approved for the front of Anzac House on St George’s Terrace. The $245,000 commemoration of Australia’s first female parliamentarian was paid for by councillor Sandy Anghie and her husband Michael, a CEO at APM Group and former director of the…

A WA government plan to sell off a strip of land along East Parade and Guildford Road in Mount Lawley has prompted fears a long-awaited fix for the dangerous intersection could be in jeopardy. There are 32 lots running either side of the intersection that are mostly grass and trees. The state government is selling…

LIAM GOBBERT has been voted in as depty lord mayor of the City of Perth. At Tuesday night’s council meeting Cr Gobbert secured five of the nine votes to take over the position from Cr Di Bain, who had completed her prescribed 12 months. Cr Gobbert had been nominted by Cr Rebecca Gordon, a manager at…

VINCENT council is hoping to work with state government agencies to install charging points for electric vehicles on roadside verges when Vincent’s power goes underground. While council CEO David MacLennan says the response from Western Power and Synergy to a proposed trial has so far been a “blanket ‘no’”, the city hadn’t given up and was…

IN this week’s tales from the past we have a collaboration with the folks from Vincent Local History Centre, telling of the Plunkett family’s long history in building the housing stock through Highgate and surrounds. It offers a snapshot of how people made do in tents waiting for their house to be built, a flow-on…

Shelves in Coles Maylands were left bare as thousands of items were dumped. Photo by James Kozak COLES’ Maylands supermarket sent a truck-full of perfectly edible food to the tip last week after not adequately preparing for a planned power outage. Customers arrriving at the Coles on Thursday October 13 were greeted with signs taped to…

ARTISTS have flocked to support the pioneering biological art research lab SymbioticA after UWA moved to shut it down. The centre’s social media account announced on October 13: “The University of Western Australia has started a process to shut SymbioticA down and we have eight working days to make a case as to why it…

THE inner city is set to get a second statue of a woman within a year, with Perth councillor Sandy Anghie personally funding a commemoration of Edith Cowan.  The Perth CBD has an army of blokes cast in bronze but until this year there were as many statues of kangaroos as there were women (three each).…

VETERAN artist David Grant spent 10 years drawing 106 models to create more than 1000 works, with sessions accompanied by conversations ranging from heartfelt to scandalous. “Relationships,” he says, was a common topic that arose as subjects opened up so readily while posing. “Life and relationships in Perth.” Originally from Zimbabwe, Grant says “I trained as a…