Perth Voice Interactive

Left right out on ABC
LISTENING to Amanda Vanstone on  Radio National the other week I could not help but think, if the rest of the mainstream media is so right-wing that it makes the ABC seem left, why does Amanda Vanstone get a radio gig and how does she get away with a reference to Chilean soldiers as a bunch of “pansies”. The Macquarie definition: effeminate man, male homosexual…
Greg Smith
Rose Ave, Bayswater

No Moore,  we beg you
SERIOUSLY? (Speaker’s Corner, Perth Voice, July 12, 2014). Darryl Moore needs to build a bridge and learn how to get over losing to Alannah MacTiernan.
And the Voice needs to stop pandering to his sore-loser whines. Darryl, as I’ve said before, if you actually pay attention and watch the goings on of parliament rather than relying on Murdoch media to keep you informed you’d see that Alannah is doing anything but sitting on the back bench twiddling her thumbs.
She’s active in her community, she’s defending the interests of not only her electorate but WA as a whole in parliament. And contrary to the Liberal line, there is no economic crisis.
In case you missed it, there was this thing called the GFC, due to Labor we came out the other side relatively unscathed, unlike many other countries. We are one of the few countries with a AAA-credit rating and have one of the healthiest economies in the world.
What are the Liberals doing for us? From my standpoint, making me embarrassed to be Australian! Abysmal policies on asylum seekers, environment (I despair at the legacy we will leave our future generations), looking after the big end of town while bashing those at the bottom who have the least to give and a cringe-worthy misogynist leader.
Yep, you have a lot to be proud of there Darryl! Its time for you to find another hobby other than Alannah-bashing because I for one am sick of reading it!
Michelle Prince
Redfern St, North Perth

Hidden art
I WAS very interested in Mayor John Carey’s statement “the council has an expert panel that matches art with appropriate locations” (Voice, July 5, 2014).
I wonder if the art at the intersection of Scarborough Beach Road and Matlock Street in Mt Hawthorn was placed by the experts.
Most, even the nearest local residents, would not know of the existence of this piece of art. Perhaps the location is an indication of what the experts think of this art.
I would like to invite locals to look at this art (or perhaps I should say hunt for this art). Don’t give up. It is there. One question for the mayor and council: “how much did this piece of art cost the Vincent ratepayers?
Jay Funk
The Boulevarde, Mt Hawthorn

Move on
I SEE poor old Darryl Moore just cant accept the fact he lost at the 2013 election to Alannah MacTiernan (Voice, July 12, 2014).
As I read his statement regarding the magnificent management of the previous Liberal government I laughed out loud.
It only takes five minutes on the internet to find out how the Liberals really paid the nation’s debt last time, and their method was far from magnificent.
Please do us all a favour Mr Moore and accept the fact Alannah is the federal member for Perth and it is unlikely you ever will be. It seems you are hopelessly lost and I am hopelessly tired of reading your toxic, irrelevant letters so please suck it up and move on.
Paul Vaughan
West Pde, Mt Lawley