The City of Perth, popularly known as Perth City Council, has been a soap opera for a year or more. Now the State Government has had enough, and has declared…
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Perth vows to move aggressive beggars off the streets
The City of Perth wants to make begging in the streets a thing of the past by directing people asking for money in public to government agencies in order to help them resolve their problems.
City of Perth to absorb neighbours under boundary reforms
By Paul Hemsley The City of Perth will swallow up all of the City of Vincent, Kings Park, the new Crown Casino and the new Perth Stadium at Burswood under…
Perth commuters take fright at fake tram
By Paul Hemsley If the sight of a tram trundling down a pedestrian mall is enough to frighten you off your shopping, then Perth is the place to be –…
Perth pushes feds to fund airport rail link
By Paul Hemsley City of Perth Lord Mayor Lisa Scaffidi has continued her push for urban transport renewal by easing the pressure off the city’s traffic jammed roads by calling…
Packer Casino lost in Perth merger gamble
By Paul Hemsley The Town of Victoria Park and the City of South Perth have blasted the City of Perth’s planned annexation of the highly lucrative James Packer-owned Crown Casino…
Councils in West embrace mergers
By Paul Hemsley Councils in New South Wales and Queensland have mounted a hard-fought campaign to stop forced amalgamations of local governments, but it’s a very different story in the…
Perth councils demand say on new tram routes
By Paul Hemsley The Western Australian Local Government Association (WALGA) has demanded the state government led by Premier Colin Barnett include councils in the planning process for the rollout of…
City of Perth demands bi-partisan planning for big projects
By Paul Hemsley City of Perth Mayor Lisa Scaffidi has demanded that Colin Barnett’s the newly re-elected state government and the major political parties all lift their game on planning…
Perth’s light rail split four ways
By Paul Hemsley City of Perth Mayor Lisa Scaffidi has proposed four different options for the controversial path of the Western Australian government’s planned light rail route through the centre…