LISA SCAFFIDI “signally failed in her duties” as Perth lord mayor by not disclosing several gifts and travel packages, according to the corruption and crime commission. In addition to a big hospitality package to the Beijing Olympics from mining giant BHP, the report reveals property developer Hawaiian Investments offered her three nights’ accommodation in Broome…

WITH school holidays here, warm weather looming and Hyde Park’s water playground about to be re-populated by youngsters, Vincent council will have another go at trying to convince Main Roads to slow speeds on nearby Vincent Street. Drivers often zoom down the narrow 60kph street, cars flanked either side making for a perilous gauntlet if…

CAN you spot the flashing speed signs near Inglewood primary school on Crawford Road? Voice photographer Matthew Dwyer says the 40kph electronic signs are only visible when he’s less than a few metres away. The signs were installed in June, along with two more sets at Inglewood primary and kindergarten, as a part of a…

AFTER an informal study tour around the city, Vincent council candidate Anthony Fisk reckons pedestrian crossings are in dire need of an upgrade. He says he spotted 10 sets of lights across south ward without safe pedestrian crossings, many in the old industrial part of West Perth which he wants spruced up. “Vincent council should…

NEARLY 100 people attended a council election forum at Bayswater bowling club Tuesday night. Every candidate but two—Cr Mike Sabatino, looking after a family member, and central ward running mate Jonathan Jones, who was working—was present. The evening kicked off with a three-minute spruik from each of the candidates: some addresses were personal and reflective,…

A MUSIC ROOM at Mount Lawley Senior High School is to be named after brother and sister musicians Luke and Katy Steele, who attended the school in the 1990s. Luke fronts Empire of the Sun, and was formerly with The Sleepy Jackson, while Katy fronts Little Birdy. “Since making it big, Luke has come back…

PERTH lord mayoral aspirant Reece Harley has riled his Perth city council colleagues with his plan to abolish their clothing allowance if he’s elected. Currently, elected members can claim from ratepayers more than $10,000 a year on “personal presentation” expenses such as clothing, shoes, haircuts and mustache wax. Cr Harley buys his own clothes and…

VINCENT council candidate Mark Rossi has been spotted pulling down a poster of rival candidate Dan Loden late at night. He was spotted by deputy mayor Ros Harley and she says she told him, “that is not the way to win an election, you can’t be pulling election material down. “He did deny doing it,…

IRREPRESSIBLE octogenarian Amrik Pala is not giving up his fight with Stirling council to get a seniors’ discount reinstated. The 81-year-old Inglewood ward candidate was fuming when he discovered the off-peak discount for seniors at the Terry Tyzack Leisure Centre had been cancelled (Voice, September 26, 2015). He’s not impressed with the answers he’s received.…