Perth Voice Interactive
Your free, independent newspaper
Author: Your Herald
-
ARIES (Mar 21 – Apr 20) As much as you would like to have traction and as hard as you paddle, getting anywhere is tricky. In exhaustion you will have your finer moments. They will be reflective moments. You might have to run around the block a few times to get there. Use all your…
-
WITH East Perth railway station close at hand, daydreaming about travel would be a regular occurrence at this cute cottage on West Parade. The famed Indian Pacific leaves the station a couple of times a week, sparking thoughts of east coast travel or linking up with the mighty Ghan, and you could fantisise about striking…
-
International Womens Day – 8 March 2018 It was quite a year for women: 2017. Across the world there was a call to arms for respect and dignity, equality, and empowerment for women. The ‘Silence Breakers’ were no longer silent. It was reactionary: the rhetoric of key leaders around the world stepped into the realm…
-
EARLY stage lung cancer patients unable to undergo surgery are eing offered a life-line with hi-tech radiation therapy. Stereotactic radiation treatment uses advanced imaging technology to deliver a high dose of radiation, very accurately and precisely to a tumour, sparing the surrounding sensitive organ. With conventional radiation therapy a patient would have to undergo 10…
-
TWO years ago any restaurateur wanting to go alfresco on Vincent’s footpaths had to negotiate a red tape obstacle course and pay for the pleasure. The council was raking in $150,000 a year in fees, but the cost and approval process was deterring some businesses from bothering. As of this week the council’s letting restaurant…
-
TERRORISTS could exploit a four-metre gap between bollards at Perth Arena and plough into crowds with a large vehicle, a state government inquiry has found. The inquiry into protection of crowded places from terrorist acts, led by the justice standing committee, grilled Perth city council last week on it’s anti-terrorist measures, and flagged the arena…
-
PLANS are afoot to spend $7.7 million on restoring the old Maylands Brickworks, but it’ll likely involve a substantial residential development. The 1927 brickworks, which have been closed for 30-odd years, is owned by the City of Bayswater and is state heritage listed, with the only remaining ‘Hoffman Kiln’ in WA (there was another, but…
-
PERTH city council CEO Martin Mileham went on indefinite personal leave this week after discovering he’d been the subject of a secret internal investigation. Nicknamed Project Percy, the probe found Mr Mileham had “no case to answer,” but lord mayor Lisa Scaffidi says the fallout has caused the CEO enormous anxiety which has led to…
-
PERTH city council CEO Martin Mileham’s decision to take indefinite sick leave comes just days after he attempted to crack down on councillors speaking to city staff. In report at last Tuesday’s ordinary council meeting, he’d suggested bringing the city’s policies in line with the Local Government Act so any communications would have to go…
-
I AM writing to express my grave concerns about the federal government’s proposed Electoral Legislation Amendment (Electoral Funding and Disclosure Reform) Bill 2017. This bill will have a huge impact on civil society, forcing charities and grassroots organisations to join a government register and follow complex new rules or members could face 10 years in…
Perth Voice Interactive 