Save the trees
THE weather’s cooled but some kids at Mt Hawthorn primary school aren’t looking forward to next summer. The reason? The school’s centerpiece 75-year-old Port Jackson fig tree has been axed. […]
Monthly Archives: April 2018
Raising the dead
CONCEPT images for a planned redevelopment of the heritage listed East Perth girls school, and surrounding sites, have been released. But first, hundreds of bodies in the old graveyard will […]
Laws stacked against renters
RENTERS’ rights in WA remain flimsy despite home ownership increasingly out of reach. Many tenants are reluctant to complain about glaring maintenance issues worried rents will be hiked up or […]
Quenda quota
OFTEN eaten by cats and foxes and forced out of their habitat by urbanisation, a population of quendas still manages to survive in Lightning Swamp in Noranda. Bayswater council is […]
Urbanites: get ready for disaster
COUNTRY folk are well acquainted with states of emergency, but with 200,000 people in the city on an average day the City of Perth is focusing on emergency planning in […]
Cat yoga
TAKING a break from the pressures of exams and assignments, 45 teens came down to Morley Library to de-stress with the combination of cats and yoga, with a litter of […]
LETTERS 28.4.18
Dutton: he’s no dud I WAS astonished that the letter “Dutton’s a dud” (Voice, April 14, 2018) could be published as it contains a lot of fake news about immigration. […]
Jewish and jazzy
THE hip young architect whose home I was reviewing was quick to recommend Satchmo Cafe in North Perth for lunch. It dawned on me that I had enjoyed a great […]
Blowin’ in the wind
WHEN the Eastwinds blow, strum and pluck they whip up a storm of world music The band is truly global and features musicians from Estonia, Iran, Japan and Australia. They’ll […]
Grand Master Performance
Riley Lee performs on Shakuhachi in Freo! Internationally renowned shakuhachi player (bamboo flute) Riley Lee will perform in Fremantle at St John’s Anglican Church on 31 May. During his tours […]
