BAYSWATER artist Denise Pepper isn’t one to cry over breakages—which is just as well given her chosen medium. She recreates beautiful fabrics in glass and sometimes there are mishaps: “I have a graveyard of glass in my studio,” she tells the Voice. But Pepper is not one to shed tears, even when a piece that…

LOCAL Liberal MP Michael Keenan has played a key role in the passage of new laws that dramatically increase ASIO’s powers and allow journalists to be jailed for up to 10 years. As federal justice minister the Stirling MP was responsible for shepherding the bill through the House of Representatives on Wednesday. It had already…

PERTH city council will press on with plans to create a sculpture park at Heirisson Island, despite the WA government refusing to spend $10 million on a pedestrian bridge to improve access. The council’s urban development committee last week considered three options, considered so sensitive they were hidden from public view and discussed behind closed…

“I DON’T want Bayswater to be known as the rubbish dump of Perth!” blared Cr Barry McKenna. The council has voted to refuse an application to build a waste transfer facility in Bayswater that accepts class 2 type waste, which includes putrescible waste (food), green waste and building site rubble. Instant Waste Management wanted to…

STARVING artists, cash-strapped novelists and musicians with well-worn heels have all turned to crowdfunding to raise cash for their projects, but now local foodies are also trying their hand. The guys from North Perth’s The Classroom have put out their hat, testing the waters to raise a cool hundred grand for their new noodle bar,…

AUSTRALIA’S competition watchdog has ruled Coles’ proposed takeover of the Supa IGA in Dianella is not anti-competitive. If the takeover goes ahead—which now seems certain—Coles will own half the 10 supermarkets within 3km of the store. The Dianella store was one of four WA Supa IGAs in Coles’ sights to be scrutinised by the Australian…

TWO Tibetan Buddhist monks are in Perth this month to spend hours painstakingly creating an intricate mandala with coloured sand, which they’ll then destroy and return to the earth as a contemplation of the impermanence of life. Voice readers can see the monks in action and join in meditative chants, for free. The event runs…

A DECISION made behind closed doors to relocate Morley library has infuriated the Bayswater City Residents’ Association. In a meeting closed to the public, Bayswater council voted to shift the library from the Galleria to the Morley sport and recreation centre before 2016. BCRA president Tony Green says the public was bypassed. “City of Bayswater…

AMIDST the flurry of patriotic flag waving in the lead up to the centenary of the Great War, a local theatre company is taking a more critical look at the conflict. The WA Young Theatre Co’s play The Dreaming Hill tells the tale of Australian soldiers on the Greek Isle of Lemnos. Writer Hellie Turner’s…