So sad HOW very sad to open our much enjoyed and read local newspaper the Voice to find such a negative, poorly researched story on the front page (“Unyappy about the cost,” November 1, 2014). This in a week when so much positive community energy was on display, (eg, the Angove festival; the North Perth primary school…

BAYSWATER city council will look at handballing ownership of its Mertome retirement village to another operator. At a lively and passionate special council meeting, the council voted to investigate two options: • seek a specialist operator to manage the redevelopment program; and, • look at transferring ownership to a professional aged care operator. Any recommendations…

Sutherland enjoys support CONTRARY to the baseless claims about the local Liberal party in your story “Merger sparks Lib feud” (October 25, 2014), I can assure you Paul Collins’ views are not shared by local party members. Michael Sutherland is a popular, well-liked and respected local member of parliament. The personally insulting view of one…

Raid a disgrace MAYOR John Carey has tried to defend raiding the aged persons reserve by claiming that in his view the reserve has no purpose because a supposed “massive redevelopment of the site” wasn’t going ahead (Voice, October 11, 2014). I wish to point out the reserve was established by a 1998 contribution from…

Delusions undermine our identity NO doubt there were  thousands of Australians proudly wearing gold and green and proclaiming their “Australianess” during the recent holiday weekend. For most it is just jingoism. They will delude themselves into thinking they have the attributes so admired in members of the Australian defence forces for more than a hundred…

Walk and chew NEITHER myself nor the Labor Party has shown any signs of being soft on terror, contrary to the claims of Mr Livingston (Voice Mail, September 27, 2014). My point is that at the same time as attending to threats from without, we need to be vigilant to the Abbott government’s attempts to…

Put it back I AM disgusted that Vincent council has decided to take five years’ worth of accumulated interest earnings from the Aged Persons and Senior Citizens Reserve (Voice, September 20, 2014) to try to plug up all the holes in its current budget. That equals cash of $745,352, which is just over 20.5 per…

Stolen stroller a buggerboo! ON Wednesday September 16, 2014 a rather sad thing happened to us at the car park close to the driving range of Maylands Peninsula golf course. My wife and son took our grand-daughter for a walk in her pusher. On return, we left the pusher next to the car and found…

Record crowds ATTENDANCE of this year’s AICE Israeli Film Festival was very strong with record crowds attending the 12-day event at Cinema Paradiso. Both opening and closing night events were sold out. Thursday August 28’s opening night screening saw guests treated to pre-screening catering courtesy of Shak Shuka as well as a performance from Sounds…

Where to begin? As a resident near Hyde Park, where do I begin regarding the new bicycle chicanes? Since its first development in 1897, Hyde Park has endured multiple facelifts to keep up with changing social use and conventions. I praise the council for the 2012 lakes redevelopment, but I fail to see how these…