Noongar Welcome Song brings home NAIDOC Week

Noongar Welcome Song brings home NAIDOC Week

As part of the 2019 NAIDOC week celebration, East Maddington Primary School planned various activities open to the local community last week. Some of the highlights of the week included a healthy living workshop, a bush tucker incursion, dressing up in Aboriginal...
Image consent a hot topic of discussion

Image consent a hot topic of discussion

Councillors’ use of social media was not the only topic at last week’s City of Gosnells council meeting. The issue of children’s image distribution was also a strong topic of conversation. The proposed policy on communications and use of social media by elected...
A café with a difference

A café with a difference

People living with dementia and their carers will have the opportunity to connect with the community during the launch of the Forget-Me-Not Memory Café next Wednesday. The City of Gosnells partnered with community members to establish the café, which will provide...
Students connect to the land with trees

Students connect to the land with trees

Local school students were more than willing to get their hands dirty in helping City of Canning staff plant 750 native seedlings on Tuesday. The city’s staff joined over 250 school students from Queens Park Primary to plant native seedlings in the Maniana bush land...
Rallying for the homeless

Rallying for the homeless

Driving to work every morning and often seeing people walking along Albany Highway and sleeping in bus shelters is what made Alison McDonnell come up with the initiative to help those in need this winter. Ms McDonnell decided to speak to her staff at Bentley Community...