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Good morning readers, and welcome to our live news blog for Wednesday, October 22.
Making headlines today a senior member of Western Australia’s biggest Chinese association has raised concerns about the process behind the construction of a $12 million taxpayer-funded hall in Bentley.
Artists’ impression of the Chung Wah Bentley Community Centre.Credit: Chung Wah
Chung Wah vice president Michael Lee is vying to become president of the influential, 115-year-old organisation for the next two years ahead of its executive committee membership vote this weekend.
His election platform, sent to this masthead, raises concerns about Chung Wah’s proposed community centre on Nyamup Way, Bentley, which has received $12.75 million of state and federal funding to date.
Meanwhile, the family of a woman missing from Perth’s western suburbs have put up a $100,000 reward for any information that could lead them to the mother-of-three.
Michelle Leahy, 50, was last seen leaving Hollywood Private Hospital in Nedlands around 3pm on Thursday afternoon.
And in an opinion piece on motherhood, WA reporter Carla Hildebrandt explains the burnout she never saw coming after trying to balance raising a baby with returning to work.
Stay with us as we bring you the news of the day, as it happens here in WA.
