THE sixth Light Up Leederville Carnival takes over Oxford and Newcastle Streets this Sunday December 3, with a bumper crowd of up to 60,000 expected. Along with the usual food, live music stages, markets and street bars, at 7.45pm the Leederville Christmas lights are switched on, and everyone’s invited to bring some form of light…

Disability Awareness Week 2017 IT’S a disgrace that one in two Australians living with a disability are unemployed compared to the national average of 5.4 per cent, says Greens disability spokesperson, senator Jordon Steele-John. On the eve of national Disability Awareness Week, Mr Steele-John called on the Turnbull government to be more proactive in helping…

Disability Awareness Week 2017 North Lake man Brandon Tomic is one of thousands of Western Australians achieving their goals through the National Disability Insurance Scheme (NDIS). With his sights set on enhancing his skills and confidence to live independently, 19-year-old Brandon, who has been diagnosed with Autism Spectrum Disorder, has started his own business ‘Brandon’s…

THE old East Perth power station should become an Aboriginal cultural centre and not a Fritz Lang tribute to WA’s mining industry, Perth councillor Reece Harley says. Last week former state architect Steve Woodland unveiled plans for a $100 million interactive mining museum at the old power station, situated on the banks of the Swan…

A MYSTERIOUS World War II tunic discovered in the roof space of an Inglewood home has sparked a fascinating historical investigation. “As we were renovating that space, we had to take the ceiling down,” Courtney Kemp from Ta-Da Transformations told the Voice. “This thing fell on our head—it was a dusty old tunic.” When the…

MAYLANDS is being targeted by paint bombers. Over the last month a public artwork has been vandalised twice and another artwork and three venues were splattered with paint last weekend. Artist Daek William had just finished fixing up his popular mural at Gemma’s Health and Wellbeing Spa, when it was paint bombed early Sunday morning.…

Vincent residents can now get a $40 cash back on their rates if they swap to a smaller bin as part of the city’s waste reduction trial. Vincent mayor Emma Cole says they want to reduce the amount of waste going to landfill. “We are encouraging residents to reduce waste and save,” she says. “This…

THE new balance of power at Perth city council is leading to change, with the council voting through a previously-stymied plan to cut alfresco fees. This week councillors reduced the fee charged to restaurateurs for setting up an alfresco from an average of $140 per square metre, to a flat rate of $40 per square…

WHEN Kristal Walker tested positive for HIV seven years ago, she knew very little about the illness and says “I thought I was going to die”. Nowadays, modern medication given to people living with HIV is largely side-effect free, can keep the illness under control, and renders the viral load completely undetectable. In recent years…

IT took petty vandals just three days to wreck the yarnbombing on trees in Maylands town centre. Bayswater councillor Catherine Ehrhardt, the city’s placemaker Emma Snow and Creative Maylands’ Kate Thomson had a walking bee recently, installing knitted, rainbow skivvies and polls on some Eighth Avenue trees. A few days later, three of them had…