Artist Jesse Lee Johns is known for his intricate style and detailed map-based murals. His latest creation is an eight-metre long mural at Beatty Park Leisure Centre, showing the City of Vincent in miniature. If you head along to take a look, you’ll see that Johns has faithfully reproduced many local buildings. The mural also…

AFTER keeping this image to myself for almost six months, I think it’s about time others are blessed by the chaotic energy of this absolute mad lad. Sadly I do not know it’s name: I haven’t been able to ask because it won’t stop barking and let me get a word in edgeways, so I…

IN this special opinion piece on soccer, Football West CEO James Curtis explains why we need  more female-friendly facilities to support the increasing number of women playing “The World Game”. THE football community in Western Australia should be in good spirits heading into 2019. The world game is flourishing in Australia and WA. And if the…

WA a forgotten state for new innovation funds Comment by ANDREW SMITH, editor THE federal government’s new ‘innovation’ fund to assist small news media has kicked off with a huge bias to Victoria and eastern states rural publishers while WA gets nothing. This raises serious questions about the political management of the $60 million fund which…

We are always there, day in day out‚ We do what we are programmed, but have we been programmed right? On auto-pilot, working hard in the city‚ Life races past us, but we are always the same‚ Hardly sleep, always switched on‚ A fresh coat of paint and on the surface we look happy‚ But…

HISTORY buff RICHARD OFFEN is the author of Lost Perth, and the former executive director of Heritage Perth. In this week’s HERITAGE CORNER he tells us all about the “infamous” Central Hotel in Forrest Place. THE Central Hotel once stood on the northern side of the GPO Building in Forrest Place. This hostelry started its…

NEWS outlets across the world followed up on our story about the WA Museum acquiring a toilet door with a “glory hole” in it (“WA’s glorious history”, Voice, December 8, 2018). Used by gay men for anonymous sex, the door was salvaged from the demolished Gosnells train station in 1997 and donated to the Museum…

A LOCAL writing institution in himself and catalyst for a generation of young writers, PETER JEFFERY talks about what led to the formation of the new Vincent Writing Centre and how successful the venture has become. Keep your eyes out for some contributions from the centre’s first anthology in the coming weeks. SOME people say…

JOHN WALKER is 53 years old and lives in Inglewood. He started writing poetry 18 months ago – proving it’s never too late to start – and reckons it’s become fun, therapeutic and expressive. “I have two rescue cats, two fish tanks and about 300 plants in my three-bed villa in ‘The Avenues’ of Inglewood,”…