LESS than 10 per cent of Wikipedia contributors are women, leading to an “alarming gap” in content related to gender and feminism. Independent art space Paper Mountain is teaming up with the Lawrence Wilson Art Gallery at UWA to rectify the imbalance with a “Wikipedia Edit-a-thon” this weekend, as part of the global campaign Art+Feminism.…

PROTESTORS complaining the McGowan government hasn’t lived up to its pre-election promise to stop logging in high conservation value forests will gather at Parliament House this Wednesday at noon to present a 10,000-strong petition. The WA Forests Alliance says it has plenty of proof that old-growth forest in the South West is being clear-felled, aided…

NEW laws giving the state government the power to suspend or sack an individual councillor have been introduced to parliament. Currently the local government minister can only suspend an entire council. Discussions about the law started shortly after the McGowan government’s election and Perth lord mayor Lisa Scaffidi’s appearance at the State Administrative Tribunal over…

A CABARET performer whose act involves graphic piercings of his body says he shouldn’t be linked to self-harm. Damien Kenny’s recent performance at the Fringe festival cabaret El Bizarro had the Voice’s reviewer scrambling out of the front-row to the safety of the back seasts, and caused her companion to faint, prompting her to question…

A FORMER Perth council employee sacked four years ago has pleaded guilty to corruption and bribery, following a bizarre saga that included his arrest in a Canberra brothel. Brett Edward Kenny (now called Brett Edward Peters) pleaded guilty on March 13 to “one count of acting corruptly in the performance of his duties as a…

SOMEONE’S playing silly buggers with the Wi-Fi names down near the police building at Curtin House on Beaufort Street. Regular Voice correspondent Andrew McDonald was in the area looking for a Wi-Fi hotspot when he noticed some suspicious signal names. The names are customisable by whoever sets up the modem, and they usually have prosaic…

THERE’S barely a mention on the web of how “CET (Dick) Lucas Park” in Bayswater got its name, or who it was intended to honour. To get to the bottom of the moniker the chook tracked down Mr Lucas’ son, who turned out to be City of Swan mayor Dave Lucas. He was happy to…

FORMER Subiaco ratepayers who were swept into the City of Perth during council amalgamations are fuming the new councillors who’d served them well have been suspended. Anna Vanderbom from the City of Perth Western Residents Association says her members aren’t happy they’ll be represented by three state-appointed commissioners while an investigation takes place into elected…

MAKING an independent feature film is not easy. Most low-budget filmmakers have to call in favours from a mate or two, or in director Peter Renzullo’s case—a few hundred. Mr Renzullo is shooting Anticipation in Perth and is looking for a horde of extras for a crowd scene at the Civic Hotel in Inglewood on…