Powerful argument I’D like to correct some potential misunderstandings about the history of the 2007 Highgate East underground power project (“Resistance Fails,” Voice, March 25, 2023). Mayor Cole is reported as suggesting that other ratepayers somehow subsidised underground power in Highgate East. She mentioned that the City borrowed $3.7 million so that some people could pay by…

I tawt I taw a puddy tat…  ON the morning of November 10, 2022 I was walking in Kings Park with my family. On the “Boomerang” pathway in the north-west corner adjacent to Thomas Street, I observed a domestic black cat moving freely around in the park. I followed the cat off the path and…

Not many cats roaming Kings Park IT was disappointing to read the letter to the editor “No time for licking your paws – we need action” in the Perth Voice on Saturday February 11, 2023.  The letter fails to recognise and acknowledge Kings Park and Botanic Gardens is an A-class reserve that is managed by…

I READ your front page story “Kings Park push for cat laws” (Voice, January 28, 2023) with great interest. I record frogs on the FrogID App for Australian Museum so see first hand the carnage. Cats are killing small birds, frogs, all sorts of lizards and wildlife. Every day throughout Australia there is 7 million…

Facts please NOT pleased with failure of the last 25 years to use Australia Day to push for a republic or change the Australian flag, the rally from the usual crowd has moved on to now change the day itself. The problem is our schools don’t teach ‘historical fact’ anymore. The decision to settle a…

Ear-bashing THANKS for highlighting the danger to public health caused by people deliberately modifying vehicles to emit ear-splitting levels of noise (“Roar Wounds,” Voice, November 5, 2022).  Members of the public have the right to go about their business without incurring actual damage to their hearing due to the ‘revving’ of vehicles which have had…

Why him? REGARDING “Street to honour Indian Anzacs” (Voice, September 24, 2022). SORRY, but thousands of Australians and Western Australians died in the Great War.  If this Indian chap gets a road named after him why not ALL the others … or is this a form of reverse racism to satisfy a woke or political agenda?…

No amused THE appalling scene of Australian Greens leader Adam Bandt, his deputy Mehreen Faruqi and many of their followers virtually celebrating the death of our former Head of State, Queen Elizabeth II, within minutes of its announcement permanently puts an end to the myth that the Greens are a “humanitarian” party.  Their behaviour since…

Only the Voice! PLEASE find my contribution for your appeal. I first saw it in the Fremantle Herald a few months ago. I live in Inglewood and over the years I’ve had two or three free local papers.  But now, only the Voice. Is the Voice a separate paper or one published under different names but…

MAYOR Emma Cole’s letter to the Voice dealing with Vincent’s progress in areas of ‘financial maturity, fiscal responsibility and asset management’ is symptomatic of the malaise at Vincent.   While the language would suit any MBA course, it reflects Vincent’s focus on plans, strategies and fancy words, without realising that they are just a means…