A FACEBOOK page purporting to represent white UWA students has popped up, likely as part of a worldwide troll movement to establish pages with little connection to real students. The UWA White Student Union, with a modest 52 likes at the time of writing, states “finally an organisation on the UWA campus exists in order…

MORE than a dozen mature trees will be axed in one swoop in Noranda because Bayswater council has failed to maintain them over the years, green thumbs claim. The council this week decided to chop down 13 trees—half the stock at the small reserve on Noranda Place—because of two potentially fatal incidents involving falling trees…

A VETERAN scrutineer says the WA electoral commission did not run the vote well in the City of Canning, echoing concerns laid against the organisation by former Bayswater councillor Michael Sabatino (see page 1). The Voice spoke with Dean Blanchard, a scrutineer for Joe Delle Donne, the mayor who was booted off council by more…

THERE’S a certain frankness about Wiwince Pigome when she talks of her tortured father, his subsequent premature death, and her murdered grandfather and uncle. There was no quiver in her voice when she spoke about the trauma at a silent vigil  in Perth CBD this week to protest Indonesia’s occupation of her former homeland, West…

VINCENT mayor John Carey wants to abolish alfresco licensing fees, saying it makes no sense to put businesses through the rigamarole and expense of applying for permits given they’re helping liven up the place. It costs $73 to apply for a yearly permit and $88 per sqm used, but Mr Carey says “what we find…

MORE than 200 residents attended a public meeting organised by WA Labor to discuss rail options in the Bayswater/Maylands area as part of its MetroNet transport plan. Maylands MP Lisa Baker says feedback confirms the Caledonian Avenue crossing at the railway is a bone of contention for many motorists. She promises a Labor government will…

TWENTY FIVE years of Pride festival history has been put on display at the Museum of Perth. The folks from the independent not-for-profit museum have dug through the Gay and Lesbian Archives of WA to unearth posters, photos videos and artifacts from a quarter-decade of Pride. The movement started back in the early days of…

SUICIDE claims a person a day in WA: it is the leading cause of death for Australians aged between 15 and 44. Over the festive period Lifeline estimates it will receive a call every 37 seconds, with one in four callers at imminent risk of taking their own life. “Christmas is usually a time of…

IT’S been 15 years since the belltower opened on Perth’s foreshore, its planning, expense and construction plagued with grumbles. A chief criticism these days—that the belltower is too short and unimpressive—must grate with former Liberal premier Richard Court, who’d wanted a much bigger tower. An editorial in the West Australian newspaper on October 20, 1998,…

MAYLANDS crafty sort Angela Loucaides is urging more people to take up the old time arts and crafts before they die out. Ms Loucaides learned needlepoint back in the ‘70s but has watched with sadness the number of Royal Show entries in her category, and many others, dwindle over the decades. “In 1997 [when she…