Royal wave I WANT to thank Optus Stadium and its staff for their help on Sunday evening. My father required assistance getting to his seat on Sunday evening to watch Queen. The staff in yellow outdid themselves. Not only did they find a wheelchair and wheel him to his seats, they even made sure there…

Retreat, regroup … charge SOME 104 years ago on a hot Sunday in February 1916, 200 men came together to construct a little brick-and-tile cottage in Mt Hawthorn. Its purpose was two-fold: as a memorial to those involved in the Gallipoli landing and as a home for a returned wounded soldier. As these men, fortified…

You’ve shamed every mother I WAS absolutely appalled by The Speaker’s Corner “Mental health is in the mouths of babes” in last week’s Voice. How could you publish such inflammatory material? Accusing parents who bottle feed their babies of contributing to “a pandemic of mental health problems” and then further linking that to domestic violence…

For Matthew I WAS working late this afternoon in the back shed. Nat and I had a feeling to set down the tools and pick up a camera and go to the harbour. I did not know Matthew Dwyer well (see pages 1 and 3) but I met him a few times around the port.…

Tart response On Saturday September 14, you published an important article “Misogyny Persists” which referred to the ongoing mistreatment of women within local governments, specifically a woman who was referred to as a “slut” by a local councillor. This story is crucial and needs to be told, yet only a few pages later you published…

Thank you THANK you for publishing Vincent Sammut’s opinion piece (“How I became an anti-Semite without trying”, Voice, August 17, 2019) regarding the emerging definition of anti-Semitism. In relation to Steve Lieblich’s response (“Defining letter”, Voice Letters, August 24, 2019), I note that he claims Mr Sammut and the leader of the UK Labour Party are…

Flawed premise REGARDING the Speaker’s Corner “How I became an anti-Semite without trying” by Vincent Sammut in your August 17 edition of the Voice. Mr Sammut’s piece goes to great length explaining how his stance is a purely political one based on “truthful comments that…expose the injustices”. He rests his premise wholly on the false…

Brrrrrrrr….. I HAVE been visiting the Terry Tyzack Aquatic Centre indoor pool for over seven years. I first started going when a physio recommended walking in the warm waters and doing stretching exercise to relieve my sciatica, which I no longer have, but have kept going twice a week since then. This morning the water…

Great work THANKS for front-page and great all-round coverage in Perth Voice of Naidoc Week themes. With your limited space for newsfeed, you rivalled the ABC Radio and TV in your generous efforts to support the cause of Voice, Truth and Treaty. Fred Chaney, Danny Gilbert and Noel Pearson were guest writers in our national…

Face up to the faceless few THE article about facial recognition software (“Scaffidi raises concerns over face recognition,” Voice, June 22, 2019) had me wondering about what is in store for us and how our privacy is being eroded. The people who run these privacy-eroding technologies are mere humans and can make errors of practice…