Where’s your pride? IT was with much amusement that I read the page 3 headline “Tigers Optused out of final bid” (Voice, July 10, 2021).  To the best of my knowledge the Tiger’s habitat is Claremont Oval in Claremont where it can be seen in royal blue and gold whereas the Lion in maroon &…

This rubbish is now a farce THE farce that is Vincent’s jettisoning of commercial waste collection is coming to a head with council refusing to step in, and the staff channelling Yes Minister. Despite staff saying they would look at extending the residential FOGO system to eligible businesses they neglected to tell the businesses. It was…

THE farce that is the City of Vincent’s abandonment of commercial waste collection is getting more ridiculous with time, and sounding more like an episode of ABC’s Utopia. When one business owner asked if businesses had been consulted before the decision had been made, they were told that the City’s Waste Strategy 2018-2023 was advertised…

Tread lightly upon our hero of the charge AN exhibit in our new Museum Boola Bardip caught my attention: an old cavalry sabre. Apparently the weapon belonged to one Henry Dyson Naylor who as a 19-year-old in the English 13th Light Dragoons was one of the few to survive the infamous Charge of the Light Brigade on…

Together THE letter from CFMEU organiser Vinnie Molina in Perth Voice March 20 (“Hands off heritage”) was like a bolt out of the blue. And this is exactly the point of retaining a strong union. Some people get critical of unions because they push the ‘boundaries’. In another generation past, the unions fought for better…

Hands off heritage THE demolition of iconic buildings often goes by quietly to avoid community outrage. This has been the case in the destruction of many sites of significant cultural and historic significance. The motive behind this so-called development is always profit and greed. Historically the CFMEU has played an important role in green-bans. The most…

City hall is the common problem WOW, I couldn’t believe what I was reading; Vincent council (headed by mayor Emma Cole) decided in  its infinite wisdom, that a hastily, poorly designed public open space is  “underpopulated” because of noise, pollution from cars and 14 “prangs” in five years (that would equate to a prang every 18.6 weeks…

Sounds a bit like garbage IN response to a motion passed at the recent annual general meeting of electors, mayor Emma Cole explained that Vincent could no longer collect commercial waste because it would cost a lot for the city to gear up to do it, and that private operators could do it more efficiently and…

All things slow? I WOULD like to respond to reasons mayor Emma Cole’s gave for the City of Vincent not pursuing any investigation for funding models for underground power (“Buried Again”, Voice, 21 November). A motion was passed at this year’s Annual Meeting of Electors asking the city to investigate models for financing underground power, with a…

Heads up! Can you help? I AM puzzled by a small image – a human face – in the brickwork of The Old Swan Barracks, corner of Francis and Beaufort Sts. Northbridge. Can anybody tell me how long it has been there, who put it there, and who is depicted? Mike Roeger Maylands The Ed says: If…