Deny them bail RECENT changes to the parole laws for murderers that murder more than one person on any day or several over the course of days, do not go far enough to provide a deterrent – all premeditated murderers should be denied bail. The attorney general talks about secondary victims of murder, we are…

Survey skewed WITH regard to the article “Sixty wants 40” (Voice, October 12, 2018). The survey about the proposed 40kmh speed limit was skewed to get the result the city wanted. Statistically about 40 per cent of a target group will respond to a survey. However, the city maintains it carried out an “extensive consultation”. Only…

Bad drivers aren’t shot I’VE just read Stirling council is applying for permission to dispose of swooping magpies by firearm. Every year at nesting time we have this problem. It’s been going on for a very long time given that Magpies, like all parents, want to protect their young. I recently read that four sharks…

Swan song “Further damage to the industry,” Clare Watson? (“Burton pans Black Swan season, Voice, September 22, 2018) The theatre industry has already been struck a lethal blow. One of the best ever plays written, Angels In America, was recently performed at the Black Swan Theatre. It was a play in two parts, but incredibly…

Tourism initiative SOME months ago your paper published an edict from my favourite source of local amusement, Vincent council, stating that any public function supported with funds from ratepayers would have to include a “welcome to country” ceremony or similar acknowledgement of our Aboriginal heritage. As a 10-year resident of the city I wondered about…

CHATFIELD is off to Europe for a few weeks so no new toons in the meantime. It’ll be a welcome reprieve from the roasting he’s copped in the last month after a horde of critics decided one of the cartoons he’d had printed in The New Yorker was “sexist”. The toon depicts two people entering…

Wheel of fortune DESPITE all the outrage over taxpayers’ $3 million gift to Floreat Athena Football Club for Litis Stadium, nobody involved has bothered to mention why the stadium itself is significant. Originally known as the Lake Monger Velodrome, it is one of the last venues remaining from when Perth hosted, what’s now known as,…

A trial of words WE are writing in response to recent letters from Tom Goode and Gavin Hicks who oppose the 40kmh trial in Vincent’s south. We fully support the city of Vincent’s trial and hope to see 40kmh speed limits introduced for all side streets in the future. Prior to the introduction of 40kmh…

A simple solution VINCENT mayor Emma Cole has provided two “facts” in defence of the city’s plan to spend ratepayers’ money on a supposed trial of lower speed limits. The first was the well-used and accurate research on the relationship between speed and damage on impact. This is typical road safety muddled thinking. Not only…