Local council
‘Like nothing you’ve ever seen’: Perth Australia Day skyshow ramps up as ‘public appetite’ for event returns
More than 100,000 people are expected to line more than a kilometre of foreshore from Langley Park for the annual half-hour fireworks and drone show on January 26.
- Claire Ottaviano
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Perth councils fire back on premier’s ‘unbecoming and baseless’ attack
A battle has erupted between the local and state governments after Premier Roger Cook implied Perth councils were being influenced by minority voices.
- Claire Ottaviano
Residents in northern Perth suburb want ‘nation’s biggest’ citizenship ceremony to stay on January 26
City of Wanneroo staff said the decision to change or retain the date of its Australia Day citizenship ceremony was likely to cause upset either way.
- Claire Ottaviano
Tensions ignite over Trigg to Scarborough coastal boardwalk
Tensions surrounding the controversial Trigg to Scarborough boardwalk are heating up with fresh opposition and illegal signage igniting the feud.
- Claire Ottaviano
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‘They’re an idiot’: Mayor lashes those behind Perth park tree carnage
Over the past two years, 56 trees planted in four separate occasions at a park in Ocean Reef have been poisoned or cut.
- Claire Ottaviano
Historic Freo tree faces axe as council backflips on protection – again
A prominent Moreton Bay fig is again in danger with the state’s most famously progressive council taking the 140-year-old beauty off its significant tree register.
- Mark Naglazas and Emma Young
WA council meeting in disarray after residents call for sex education books to be restricted
City of Albany councillors will have to vote on whether or not they should restrict access to books from their local library that a group of residents has claimed are “sexualising children”.
- Holly Thompson
Perth families denied burial plots seek ‘compassionate’ way forward
After closing a cemetery, a Perth metropolitan council has advised widows they can no longer be buried in the lots they bought beside their husbands.
- Gary Adshead
Perth councils face rate rise pressure as cost-of-living crisis deepens
Perth councils are struggling to find ways not to pass soaring costs on every front to their equally embattled residents – with varying degrees of success.
- Claire Ottaviano
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