- News
Blue line too thin – Honey
Fremantle police officers arrived 20 minutes after at least three desperate calls for assistance.
An unprovoked attack and violent citizen’s arrest on the Cottesloe foreshore has exposed the dangers of the western suburbs’ thinly spread police presence. Photo: Jane Wishaw
- Community
Pip and Lucie paddle for poverty
“These three charities all help less-fortunate kids and their communities in Rote Island and the Solomon Islands.”
Surfer and paddle boarder Pip Joyce spends most of her free time on the water with her friend Lucie Thorpe. The pair have joined forces to bring a popular fundraising event, Paddle Against Poverty, to Perth for the first time on Saturday May 11. Photo: Paul McGovern
- TimeOut
Songbird, second time around
Playwright Shakara Walley invited her musical family to write the song list for Songbird.
When playwright Shakara Walley needed songs for her play Songbird, there was no shortage of inspiration from within her family. They helped her put together a song list for the production, in which she explores reconciliation when one person wants it and the other doesn’t. Photo: Paul McGovern
- Property
Suburban sanctuary
“Swim naked, take a spa, shower outdoors and feel completely free.”
With a bridge over a babbling stream, a waterfall, pool, spa and a soaring canopy, the back garden of this 1743s.qm property is like a sanctuary in suburbia. You could be forgiven for imagining you are in the Perth Hills rather than one door from the Christ Church Grammar playing fields in Mt Claremont.
- Sport
Kings of the big game
The Eagles have until the end of the month to decide whether to keep their reserves team in the WAFL.
How will our players develop better by joining a lesser competition in another state? That is the only question West Coast need to ask themselves as they weigh up a tectonic shift in the management and development of their emerging and second-tier players.
Headlines around the western suburbs this week...
Floreat
Cambridge 400 revolt
Hundreds of Cambridge residents – including Perth lord mayor Basil Zempilas – have openly rebelled against mayor Gary Mack.
Lloyd Gorman
Subiaco
Honour for lost Anzacs
A 106-year-old injustice to fallen local Anzacs is set to be fixed, thanks to discoveries by a local history sleuth. Photo: Paul McGovern
Lloyd Gorman
Nedlands
Mangano v legal heavies
Lopsided legal firepower is on show in the case of a Nedlands councillor being sued by a Dalkeith couple in the Supreme Court.
Jen Rewell
City Beach
Art turns tide on plastic
This striking artwork of a shark stuck in a reef was created “entirely from stuff that is killing the ocean”, says City Beach artist John Major.
Bret Christian
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