RAINBOW RIGHTS WA is petitioning premier Colin Barnett to support legislation quashing historical convictions under old anti-gay laws. The legislation making homosexual intercourse illegal wasn’t repealed until 1989, and at […]

A CONTENTIOUS concrete batching plant planned for Bayswater looks likely to get approval, with environment minister Albert Jacob deciding it doesn’t need a full environmental assessment. Ransberg Pty Ltd got […]

THE Lorax lurked on the steps of parliament this week to speak for the trees, imploring MPs to protect privately-owned Bayswater wetlands that are being eyed off for housing. The […]

DISCRIMINATION continued even after anti-gay laws were removed from the books, one Voice reader tells us. The man, who asked to be anonymous to avoid being restigmatised, claims in the […]

LAX rules allowing houses to be demolished before councils find out what will replace them are leaving gap-toothed streets and undermining Vincent’s heritage streetscapes, says mayor John Carey. Until last […]

A PETITION to remove pesky peppermint trees in Yokine has been slapped in front of Stirling council. Fourteen Lonsdale Street locals are demanding the newly planted peppies be pulled out […]

ALANNAH MACTIERNAN’S political career is almost certain to be revived with Labor leader Mark McGowan keen to see her fill a vacancy left by retiring upper house MP Ken Travers. […]

STIRLING council’s attempts to block the demolition of a 1923 house on Third Avenue has been smacked down by the state administrative tribunal. The house is in a “heritage protection […]

STIRLING council is moving to tighten up heritage protection in Mount Lawley, Menora and Inglewood. A review of the suburbs’ “character retention guidelines” and the city’s planning scheme found a […]

STIRLING council says it’s seen off the scourge of multiple dwellings across most of the city. Back in 2012 there was a clamour over a stuff-up by the WA Planning […]