Perth Voice Interactive

AFTER five months the TV is finally fixed for residents at Ray Healy towers in East Perth.

For months the reception’s been on the fritz at the Goderich Street housing department complex, with glitchy pictures starting to plague them around the time of last year’s AFL grand final.

The department had told residents “the matter is quite complex” and it was taking time to get it back up. Under its own guidelines it has 28 days to resolve routine maintenance issues but that blew out massively.

The Voice was told in January a new antenna and booster would be installed “in the coming days” but the problems stretched on another two months.

Next-door neighbour Terry Maller is friendly with a lot of the residents and after some frustrating conversations with the department, got onto his old pal Eleni Evangel, the local Liberal MP for Perth.

Now, finally, after Ms Evangel’s been contacting them urging a quick remedy, the department’s had yet another expert out to attempt to finally fix it all.

“Sometimes it takes a personal touch,” Ms Evangel says, adding that for many of the elderly people in the complex the TV was their “lifeline” to the outside world and the delays weren’t good enough.

For now the telly’s back up and running, just in time for residents to catch the My Kitchen Rules finale.

by DAVID BELL