Rooned by the socialists YOU could be excused if you thought the majority of nasty letter writers sat idle while we had the two worst prime ministers in history of this great country. Keating left John Howard with a $96 billion debt and 17 years later Rudd-Gillard-Rudd left Abbott with a $300 billion debt and…

Hard questions are not bias IN his letter (Voice Mail, May 17, 2014) Michael Sutherland makes some interesting claims. 1. That GetUp is an activist organisation of the political left. 2. That there is not a single conservative anchorperson on any ABC current affairs program. How does he know? As a long-time member of the…

Look out for the lefties I REFER to your article “Save our ABC” (Voice, May 10, 2014). The petition  circulated by GetUp to “protect” the ABC is totally self-serving as GetUp is Greens/Labor aligned. GetUp is an electronic online activist organisation of the left. The ex-national director of GetUp, Simon Sheikh, was a Greens Senate…

Too much to pear JOHN CAREY is concerned about tree vandals (Voice, May 3, 2014): that is the pot calling the kettle black Mr Carey, when the City of Vincent is uprooting and dumping the beautiful Bradford Pears in Beaufort Street and replacing them with Flame Trees. What a waste of ratepayers’ money. The Bradford…

Boulevard of Missed Opportunities YOUR article on the Beaufort Street “revival” (Voice, April 12, 2014) only told part of the story, naively stressing the positives without highlighting the missed opportunities. The development will be a vast improvement to the area and deserves some support however there could have been a better outcome for the community.…

Not being negative CONTRARY to mayor John Carey’s rude remarks at a previous council meeting, I am not about just being negative. Asking questions or questioning the decisions of council is not just being negative. I have been going to council meetings for six years and have read more background, more reports and more council…

A club of champions I WAS rather incensed to read that 75 locals had signed a petition against the redevelopment of Menzies Park (Voice, April 5, 2014). Menzies Park has been the home ground of The Cardinals junior football club for more than 50 years to my knowledge. How can 75 people sway the council…

Axe the MPs? WA has 59 members of the Legislative Assembly, one for every 42,000 people: 42 MLAs represent electorates in the Perth metro area alone, which is 40 per cent more than the number of councils now and nearly three times as many as the number of councils proposed. This is confusing for local…

With all due respect PAUL COLLINS of Coolbinia is critical of the proposed amalgamation of councils (Voice Mail, March 8, 2014). Mr Collins refers to “community of interest” locations (eg, Inglewood’s community of interest location being centred on Beaufort Street towards Mt Lawley, not Morley). With all due respect to Mr Collins, the concept of…

Fast job, slow signs THE Labor member for Maylands and her leader, Mark McGowan, are complaining about the speed at which the flashing speed signs are being put up at schools (Voice, March 8, 2014). Was this an early April Fool’s day joke? These signs, popular with school communities, are being rolled out by the Liberal government…