Plan before cash splash WITH reference to the Voice article “Beaufort thaw to tackle trade crisis” (June 1, 2019) relating to the Beaufort street business issue. Whilst it is not good to see any local business closing we have to be realistic rather than just throw ratepayers’ dollars at it. The truth is that businesses…

I was skint UNFORTUNATELY I couldn’t take up Joshua O’Keefe’s suggestion to get down to Beaufort Street on Saturday evening and ‘act local’ (“Rally for traders”, Voice, June 8, 2019) Much as I would have liked have “bar snacks and cocktails at Must, dinner at the Dainty Dowager and a cookie from Get Chunky” I…

Keep out I AM appalled at the interference of the Labor state government in the running and taking over control of the Perth city council. It wasn’t until the previously popularly-elected lord mayor Lisa Scaffidi showed some support for then-premier Colin Barnett that the axe fell. Scaffidi was particularly “A”-political for all of the time…

Hubble bubble… BEHOLD, subtle witch-hunting persists. Why the big picture of Perth’s suspended first woman lord mayor when she is not even mentioned in your article (“Call to expedite inquiry”, Voice, April 20, 2019)? More relevant and occupying the same space would have been mug shots of the magnificent six –premier Mark McGowan, minister of…

One vote, one value HERE we go again – another election. Why, oh why do we continue in the ridiculous preferential voting system where we have to vote for candidates we would never do. They get the preferential votes which brings them into power and works towards an upper house fiasco. Brexit has demonstrated the need…

WHEN I saw the headline “Vincent dumps verge pickups” in last week’s Voice, I thought it was an April Fool’s joke, but no. One asks what on earth we are supposed to do with those old, sometimes broken sofas, barbecues, tables, carpets etc. We don’t all have access to trailers or even to vehicles with…

Station toilets – is it that hard? THE current furore surrounding the replacement of the sculpture marking the history of Seventh Avenue bridge with a public toilet, is the result of the implacable position taken by the Public Transport Authority in refusing a toilet on railway land at Maylands. In 2016 Maylands MP Lisa Baker…

A sobering thought ON March 1 the WA Public Health Advocacy Institute, the WA Local Government Association and the Mental Health Commission launched the local government alcohol management guidelines in Perth. The guide supports local governments to address alcohol-related issues within their communities and create a safe and healthy place for people to work, live…

Lisa’s lure “WHERE there is no publicity (i.e. full disclosure) there is no justice,” Jeremy Bentham, 1748-1832. For a year by now, weirdly silent as the lambs, have been our capital city’s suspended councillors while subject to an inquiry set up by the state. And along with the councillors, our first woman and best-ever Perth…

Just a shed PERTH federal MP Patrick Gorman having a wet-pants moment over the redevelopment of the old Bunnings site (“MP calls out Woolies”, Voice, January 16, 2019). Mate, the proposal is basically replacing a tin shed – get over it. Then there is Perth state MP John Carey harassing Coles over their little toys…