Baby, we’ve got a problem WHAT is over-development? Is it towering structures reaching into the clouds in nearby suburbs? Is it increasing urban sprawl that digs into out pristine bushland? Is it urban infill that has thrice as many people in a localised urban area with too many people using the green space? However you…

Greatness LET’S make Australia great again. Great again? Please excuse the tweaked Trumpism; it ought to serve some useful purpose. Here’s an explanation: Australia, after all, is a land mass only slightly smaller than the United States and with as much potential, though vastly different. For tens of thousands of years, time beyond our imagination,…

More glory THE graphic content in the Voice article “WA’S glorious history”, seems to be the focus of Angelika White’s complaint (“No glory for whole story”, Voice Letters, January 19, 2019). Other museums have emailed the WA Museum and myself for more information about the door with the glory hole in it. While Ms White may not see…

No glory for whole story TO the Voice directors, please respectfully keep the “glory hole” stories out of the community newspapers. Are you desperate to fill the pages by reporting that a man was recently convicted because he stuck his penis through a glory hole in Coogee? Is your story going to pave the way…

They no longer serve the poor I READ with utter dismay and disgust the Speaker’s Corner “An opportunity wasted” (Voice, November 10, 2018), regarding charity shops reckless waste of donated goods. The lame excuses proffered by one so-called manager beggared belief. He/she should have been supervising the sorting being done by the the work for…

Look back to the future THE answer to WA Tourism’s dilemma – history. Are you commemorating the 56th anniversary of Perth hosting the Commonwealth Games in 1962? Preceding these were the inaugural Commonwealth Paraplegic Games held at the Claremont Showgrounds. As one commentator remarked, “the attendance was the best he had seen at any paraplegic…

We can all make a difference WHAT can the average Perth resident do to contribute to helping homeless? Contact your local homeless shelter to donate items like blankets, toiletries, multi-use water bottles, backpacks, clothing and durable shoes. Contact your local representatives and push for new legislations and housing projects to support the homeless, mentally affected…

Vote first, worry later I WAS mentioned in Voice Letters on November 3 (“We live in a deMOCKracy”), so here is my return of serve. I may initially have misunderstood Mr Westwood; I thought he may have suggested that a democracy must enshrine certain political and cultural values, even though they change over time. That…

We live in a deMOCKracy IN response to Trevor Preston’s letter “Demo-lition”  (Voice, October 13, 2018), everything wrong and undemocratic with our monarchy has been highlighted by recent events. Under the crown, former prime minister Malcolm Turnbull had extraordinary powers that were beyond his brief – as a not-popularly-elected majority coalition party leader – for…