MRA lags on plan for Kelmscott

MRA lags on plan for Kelmscott

Short term redevelopment of the Kelmscott CBD and Denny Avenue seems unlikely with the Metropolitan Redevelopment Authority admitting no new master plan for the area was in development. Despite the authority having planning control of the Kelmscott CBD for half a...
Keogh a good sport when it comes to gifting to clubs

Keogh a good sport when it comes to gifting to clubs

Labor candidate for Burt Matt Keogh was aiming to woo sporting clubs with the announcement of $160,000 for the Armadale Gymnastics Club and Forrestdale Sporting Association. Mr Keogh and shadow parliamentary secretary Ed Husic visited the FSA on Saturday to announce...
PM visits new seat of Burt

PM visits new seat of Burt

The Liberal Party upped the ante in the new political hot seat of Burt this week by sending out Prime Minister Malcolm Turnbull to rally behind candidate Matt O’Sullivan at his Maddington campaign office on Tuesday. Not to be out done, Opposition Leader Bill Shorten...
Shorten feels at home in Jull Street Mall

Shorten feels at home in Jull Street Mall

Opposition leader Bill Shorten visited the hotly contested seat of Burt on Tuesday in what is likely his last visit to WA during before the federal election on July 2. He had lunch at the Armadale Dome in the Jull Street Mall before speaking to passers by in the mall...
Hakea overcrowded, underfunded

Hakea overcrowded, underfunded

Acting inspector of custodial services Eamon Ryan has savaged the conditions of Hakea prison saying it is critically overcrowded and impacting prisoners’ ‘fundamental human rights’. Mr Ryan inspected the prison in August last year and made 29 recommendations to the...