Skaters lose out to cars THE hunt’s on for a new spot to replace the Wotton Reserve Skate Park, which will soon be demolished for a carpark for the new Morley train station. Bayswater council opened the skate, scooter and BMX park in 2002, but now the McGowan government’s told them it’ll be knocked over…

NOBODY alerted authorities while a woman in her 50s was being allegedly indecently assaulted on a nightmare train journey last week, it has been revealed. White Gum Valley resident Jamie Hansen (31) has since been charged with indecent assault, brandishing a weapon and threatening to kill train-goers, but the incident has prompted a victims’ advocate to…

ANZAC COTTAGE may be transferred from Vincent council to the National Trust of WA. The move would see it opened up to the public more often but with an entry fee attached. The transfer plan has in-principle support from both main groups associated with the cottage – the leaseholders Vietnam Veterans Association WA, and the…

A MERCEDES BENZ SUV which spent a week clogging up the sole accessible parking bay out front of the City of Perth library clocked up $2500 in fines. Taxi driver Terence Watts called the Voice on Monday to let us know it’s been there “for the last six days… this is so selfish”. “I have…

WITH fears of a surge in homelessness if the McGowan government’s moratorium on evictions is lifted at the end of this month, the WA Greens are trying to get ahead of the game and hear from worried renters directly. East Metro MLC Tim Clifford has launched an online Covid-19 rental health check survey, and expects…

ELIZABETH QUAY was once known as Gumap, Mount Eliza was Kata Moor, and Claisebrook Cove was a freshwater stream called Goon’goong’up, and so narrow you could step over it.  A new exhibition Gnarla Boodja Mili Mili (Our Country on Paper) at the Museum of Perth tells the stories behind 31 Noongar names for places around…

BROWSING the shelves of Fremantle Library for the latest bestseller recently, local resident Charlie Dortch says he was “bewildered and affronted” to come across a copy of one of the most infamous books of all time: Adolf Hitler’s Mein Kampf.  The former curator of anthropology at the WA Museum, Dr Dortch said his outrage grew when…

PERTH will be hosting the only live screenings oft the Muslim Film Festival this year. Festival executive producer Tarek Chamkhi said the Covid risk made gatherings in Melbourne, Brisbane and Sydney too problematic this year, but Perth was still going ahead “due thanks to the state government for the measures which have made us all…

‘Behind these numbers are the very real stories of people who have fallen through the cracks.’ PERTH lord mayoral candidate Basil Zempilas wants to turn the upper floors of Perth’s carparks into overnight shelters for homeless people. Mr Zempilas’s “Pop-up Places for Homeless People” policy is based on a recently-trialled Brisbane model developed by the…

PERTH council electoral rolls not covered by the Power inquiry need to be audited to root out voting fraud, a former Perth city councillor says. Reece Harley was a councillor from 2013 to 2020 and after reading the August 11 inquiry report says the council needs to review electoral rolls from 2013, 2015 and 2017…