THEY’VE done it again: Vandals have damaged the public artwork at Ellesmere Reserve. Near-neighbour Bob Kucera called the Voice reporting the artwork—IMAG_NE by Emma Anna—was vandalised Friday night. “It’s become quite a feature in the area and it’s disappointing to see some low-life cretin come along and do something like that to it,” the former…

BOARDED up brothels on Roe Street are some of photographer Pippa Tandy’s earliest memories of growing up in Perth. Remembering Perth’s red-light district as a teenager, she tells the Voice: “You hurried past.” Then Perth, not Northbridge, it was known colloquially as “the Latin Quarter”, an area of gambling dens and unsavoury characters, where ordinary…

A FILIPINO man and his wife from Bedford have organised a fundraiser for the Typhoon Haiyan disaster, dismayed to hear corruption is stopping funds getting to his home province. Rhay Rom says his relations in Ormoc City and Merida were without food for five days and had their homes destroyed after Typhoon Haiyan struck in…

“ONE man’s terrorist is another man’s freedom fighter,” says Mt Lawley MP and South African ex-pat Michael Sutherland. “Some people think of Nelson Mandela’s early years as controversial, but you have to look at his life in totality. “Apartheid was iniquitous and demeaning towards black people. “I respect Mandela and the monumental changes he achieved.”…

A NEW design has been approved for the old Playhouse Theatre site near the St Georges Cathedral in Perth. It’s second-time lucky for the project, after Perth city council approved an initial design in February 2011. While the Playhouse was demolished the replacement project never saw the light of day. Now a nine-level office building…

IT was a quiet affair at this year’s Perth city council AGM, with the couple of ratepayers who’d showed up easily outnumbered by council staffers. A conspicuous absence was former councillor Lyndon Rodgers, who didn’t show to receive his certificate of service after his re-election bid failed in October. Mr Rodgers, often at odds with…

FACILITIES at Morley’s Beales Park are so “third world” that young female players “change into their playing strip behind towels in the middle of the park”. Noranda Women’s Football Club is currently based at the Noranda sporting complex, sharing facilities with two other clubs. It’s pretty crowded and means the complex grounds are often booked…

A LOCAL doco will delve into the history of Italian cuisine around Perth. Adrian Craddock decided to make Spaghetti in the Suburbs after hearing his nonna’s tales about how important the comfort of food was to a young immigrant growing up in a strange new country. “My nonna came over to Australia in the ‘50s,”…