DOCUMENTARY maker Justin Hunt says society is sitting on a time bomb—a generation of youngsters who’ll struggle into adulthood because their fathers bailed. Hunt says it’s a modern dilemma, as previous generations usually had extended families and close-knit communities to fill the gap left by absent fathers. “You show me a person that is angry,…

A MOVE to slash the number of courts at Maylands Tennis Club from 17 to nine could put an end to fundraisers for groups like the WA cancer council, says club president John Hogben. Bayswater council staff recommend leaving the club with three acrylic and six grass courts, saving the council around $58,000 a year…

AN Oxford Street shop owner has been warned to behave in the public gallery at Vincent city council meetings or risk, “action [being] taken against you”. Council CEO John Giorgi issued the written warning to Debbie Saunders, owner of 50ml cafe, last week. It follows a similar warning he’d sent in March. Ms Saunders and…

WHILE public art has traditionally been the domain of government, the Beaufort Street Network is trying out a new plan to crowd-fund an installation. BSN chair John Carey’s taken to fundraising website Pozible to raise $5000 to buy Sandy Bliim’s sculpture Clytie. The BSN has already raised $10,000 from roving dinners, so the $3340 raised…

ALANNAH MacTIERNAN has refused to rule out running as an independent Senate candidate in September. Scuttlebutt is doing the rounds of parliament that the former WA Labor planning minister—who contested the federal seat of Canning in 2010—will enter the race. “Never say never,” the Vincent mayor said when the Voice called for comment. “To rule…

THE “Montgomery Bible” from the Battle of El Alamein will be on display in Perth this month. WA-born historian Kelvin Crombie will give a talk on the Hebrew bible, presented by Palestinians to General Montgomery after his Allied forces stopped the Holocaust from occurring in the Middle-East. The British general halted Rommel’s forces at El…

THE much-debated Bunnies are here. This week the 2.5m glowing rabbits were installed on Perth city council’s Goderich Street affordable housing project. Perth artists Kat Black and Jasper Cook split the PCC when it was approved last year, with Cr Rob Butler saying he wanted his name recorded as opposing it, “in capital letters”. Cr…

WORKS by Van Gogh, Picasso, Cezanne and Frida Kahlo arrive in Perth June 22 for a major six-month exhibition at the WA art gallery. It will be the only Australian outing of the New York Museum of Modern Art collection. “The development of the exhibition is a wonderful achievement for the gallery,” director Stefano Carboni…

“WE’VE always had a love of dangerous, interesting, revelatory writing,”  publisher Nathan Hondros said at the launch of Northbridge-based Regime Magazine’s 02 edition earlier this year. He and business partner and long-time friend Damon Lockwood produced their first magazine in mid-2012, saying there was no avenue for “more interesting pieces” in the local scene. “So…

Bucket wish I WRITE in response to the lengthy glowing assessment of the Lord Mayor of Perth, Ms Scaffidi, by an obviously awestruck Ron Willis (Voice Mail, June 15, 2013). At the risk of angering her excited admirer, can I suggest the almost perfect Ms Scaffidi forsake some of her photo opportunities and get out…