CARS queuing for Covid tests are clogging Mount Hawthorn. The long lines have left residents unhappy with the noise, blocked driveways, and pollution from cars idling near their homes.  The testing clinic is on Oxford Street, but to avoid causing chaos at the street’s busy intersections drivers have been directed to queue on the other…

Parents up in arms CITY parents say they’ve been left in the lurch after Perth council decided to shut the Citiplace Childcare Centre without first consulting them. The 33-year-old centre will close in September following a behind closed doors decision by councillors on March 29. The item was opaquely titled “service review”. The review was…

THE nasty tree-killing polyphagous shot-hole borer has been spotted in Hyde Park, infesting at least five trees so far. The mysterious insect’s origin was unknown but it was first identified attacking Sri Lankan tea plantations in 1868. WA kept the tiny bug out of our borders for a long while but it was first reported in…

A LONG-AWAITED wall will now be built at Beatty Park Reserve to prevent flooding of nearby homes, following a years-long campaign by residents. Homes just north of the reserve were flooded in the bad storm of 2010 when drains couldn’t cope, and water’s threatened properties in some of the rainier years since (Voice, April 2,…

FORMER Perth councillor Keith Yong has been charged with giving false evidence to a royal commission over his testimony during the 2019 City of Perth inquiry. WA Police charged Mr Yong (also known as Yit Kee Yong) over his evidence at hearings on August 5 and 6 when the inquiry was looking into vote manipulation…

Many offices are still empty as big businesses and even some government departments continue remote work arrangements, despite premier Mark McGowan last week saying “people should keep going to the office, going to work, and keep taking basic precautions to stay COVID-safe”. Hospitality businesses are especially struggling from a lack of coffee-chugging and sandwich-snaffling city…

A WAR graves researcher has called for an inquiry into the Metropolitan Cemeteries Board after finding out more than 100 Anzac graves, including a handful of Voicelanders, have lost their headstones to “renewal” at Karrakatta Cemetery. Gavin Wilkinson discovered the missing headstones while searching for the grave of his great uncle, Pte James Burrows, who’d fought…