Browned off with brewery IT was inevitable that the application [for the Brown Street microbrewery] was going to be approved as it was quite clear from the beginning of the process that Perth city council was playing with loaded dice. When we received the notification of the application we were given just 11 days to…

Short-sighted THE City of Perth is very short sighted with its cuts to senior citizens services. It is clear to all that we are now living in an era where more people are retiring and officially entering the “seniors” age band. That will mean more services are required and there will be more demand for…

Forgive me, father… RELIGIOUS organisations like the Australian Christian Lobby and more broadly the religious right have, by opposing marriage equality, crossed the line from defending Christian rights (which is wholly acceptable) to encroaching on the rights of others. The government is complicit in this, and is making non-Christians obey religious rules. Marriage is a…

Keep it clean IN response to Ian Anderson’s misinformed, misguided and old-fashioned idea about renewable energy (“Recycling ‘facts’”, Voice, March 25, 2017). Rather than criticising clean, renewable energy, Ian should look at the work done by Sustainable Energy at http://www.sen.asn.au. SEN has been working with businesses and government to show that wind and solar CAN…

Finding Lisa I NORMALLY enjoy reading my local paper but I have to take exception to Nic Hayes Speakers Corner, Voice, 18/03/17. Specifically, “we all know the troubles that our Lord Mayor has found herself in…” I am fed up with this journalistic style that people “find” themselves in these positions. Generally it is used…

Hands off my school I AM writing to you to express my concerns about the Labor Party’s plans for the school that I am currently attending, Perth Modern School. I am a Year 8 student at Perth Modern School and I really enjoy the fact that I study there, the great teachers and friends I have…

Promises, promises… A FEW weeks ago your paper included an article about the Barnett government promising a $38 million dollar expansion of Mount Lawley Senior High School as a “stopgap measure” while the new Churchlands College is built (“Libs promise $38m Mt Lawley expansion,” Voice, February 4, 2017). Liberal MPs Michael Sutherland and Peter Collier…

JDAP cares I THANK the Joint Development Assessment Panel (JDAP) members, made up of three industry experts and our two councillors Joshua Topleberg and Matt Buckles for listening to our Precinct’s concerns on the proposed application submitted by Rosewood Care Group at 67 Cleaver Street. It included a 421-signature petition, 40 objections, and 5 comment…

Out-of-scale I WOULD like to thank the Voice for giving front-page prominence to the story of the appalling proposed development in Inglewood on the corner of Beaufort Street and Eighth Avenue (“Seven-storey Inglewood alarms locals,” Voice, December 10, 2016). This development cannot be allowed to go ahead in its current form. While many locals and…

Staturesque IN response to Robert Wood (“Greens failing,” Voice letters, November 19, 2016) and his reference, I assume, to Mt Lawley MLA Michael Sutherland’s stature and not that of his wife and Bayswater councillor, Michelle. I also assume he was not referencing physical stature, but metaphorical stature. If “liberal” MLA Sutherland can get ”liberal” planning…