NATIVE title does not exist on Heirisson Island, sinking Aboriginal activists’ claims they were unlawfully evicted. Earlier this year Noongar elder Bella Bropho wrote to Perth city council arguing activists protesting the closure of Aboriginal communities were entitled to camp on the island. She’d based this on a 2007 federal court decision which found Noongars…

MIKE O’HANLON wants the teenager who gave him a black eye to be put to work, not put in a cell. The Perth lord mayoral candidate had been at the Perth cultural centre last weekend with a friend when he was hit. At the time Mr O’Hanlon had been trying to stop his friend from…

THE coat of arms on the Perth general post office is being replaced this week. The building has two coats of arms (one UK, one Australian) and in January the Voice reported vandals had decapitated the unicorn and nearly kicked the lion’s head off the poms’ sigil. After the pieces had been sitting in a…

Mount Lawley Senior High School students collected more than 200kg of food during its Foodbank School Appeal. The collected food will provide more than 270 meals. Foodbank distributes supplies across WA to needy families and the agencies that support them. Pictured are: Ella Monaghan, Modra Addy, Sarah Brook, Neve Kerr, Heather Bland, Zari Calligan. Photo…

HOPE you like your liquor straight, because Whipper Snapper Distillery isn’t allowed to sell it any other way. The burgeoning East Perth distillery makes a whiskey-style drink and one of its flagship products is meant to be a mixin’ liquor, not a sippin’ liquor, intended to be enjoyed with ginger beer, tonic, watermelon juice or…

AN advertisement offering cheap mobile phone and computer deals through the Perth Voice last weekend has been exposed as a likely scam. The ad, purportedly from Pacific Mobile Phones, offered “Buy 3 get 1 free” on a range of latest-model phones, but provided only email or skype addresses as contact points. It has run in…

BEAUFORT STREET’S beloved jewellery and fashion store Behind the Monkey is closing. When the Voice visited this week one customer after another came into the store to wish operator Brody MacLeod all the best or to express regret. Ms MacLeod says it’s sad to say goodbye, but it’s not a sad story: she’s not closing…

A FORMER keyboard player for Eskimo Joe is running for Bayswater council. Dan Bull toured with the globally successful Perth band in 2004 and 2005 and has since played with several other famous Perth bands, including The Sleepy Jackson and End of Fashion. Now a commercial lawyer—he gave away being a career musician following the…

PERTH COLLEGE and heritage advocates are at loggerheads over the proposed demolition of four 1920s-era houses. The exclusive girls’ school has lodged an application with Stirling city council to demolish the Lawley Crescent houses so it can build a multi-million dollar senior learning and leadership centre. Mount Lawley Society patron Barrie Baker says the homes…

MOUNT LAWLEY Senior High School students will experience the devastating effects of road trauma in a unique art cum educational workshop. Created by artist James Berlyn, Split Second will put high school actors and audience members in the shoes of young crash victims. “Being partially paralysed, having a colostomy bag, or being wheelchair bound, isn’t…