A FORMER Perth council employee sacked four years ago has pleaded guilty to corruption and bribery, following a bizarre saga that included his arrest in a Canberra brothel. Brett Edward Kenny (now called Brett Edward Peters) pleaded guilty on March 13 to “one count of acting corruptly in the performance of his duties as a…

SOMEONE’S playing silly buggers with the Wi-Fi names down near the police building at Curtin House on Beaufort Street. Regular Voice correspondent Andrew McDonald was in the area looking for a Wi-Fi hotspot when he noticed some suspicious signal names. The names are customisable by whoever sets up the modem, and they usually have prosaic…

THERE’S barely a mention on the web of how “CET (Dick) Lucas Park” in Bayswater got its name, or who it was intended to honour. To get to the bottom of the moniker the chook tracked down Mr Lucas’ son, who turned out to be City of Swan mayor Dave Lucas. He was happy to…

FORMER Subiaco ratepayers who were swept into the City of Perth during council amalgamations are fuming the new councillors who’d served them well have been suspended. Anna Vanderbom from the City of Perth Western Residents Association says her members aren’t happy they’ll be represented by three state-appointed commissioners while an investigation takes place into elected…

MAKING an independent feature film is not easy. Most low-budget filmmakers have to call in favours from a mate or two, or in director Peter Renzullo’s case—a few hundred. Mr Renzullo is shooting Anticipation in Perth and is looking for a horde of extras for a crowd scene at the Civic Hotel in Inglewood on…

• This vacant block has been transformed into a garden of “useful weeds”. A ROSE by any other name would smell as sweet, wrote Shakespeare, but could a field of weeds be a beautiful garden? A group of Perth artists have transformed a cruddy old vacant block in central Fremantle into an ordered garden of…

A STORYTELLING festival boasting Australia’s first all-indigenous line-up of presenters could help overcome a dire shortage of Noongar literature for kids. The Woylie Festival was the brainchild of local kids’ bookshop owner Jennifer Jackson, who wanted to add some works by local Aboriginal authors to her shelves, only to find there were hardly any available.…

IF Rahul Jegatheva’s national Under-19s triathlon title wasn’t a convincing display of his competitive edge, then his mad dash home after the event certainly was. The 16-year-old Perth Modern School student was the first Sandgroper to win his category of the National Aquathlon Championships at Lake Crackenback in the Snowy Mountains on February 24, but…

MEMBERS of the public should be allowed to ask questions at council meetings without bureaucrats getting a sneak peak beforehand, says Vincent council. In its submission to a review of the Local Government Act, the council says recommendations put forward in a local government department discussion paper don’t go far enough and more can be…

A GROUP of young migrants from Aranmore Catholic College in Leederville are the stars of a new music video calling for all cultures in Australia to live in harmony. “Happiness for everyone, walking to the beat of the same drum,” is the chorus of the catchy song, featuring students from the Intensive English Centre at…