NORTH PERTH child rapist Vincenzo Mule has been sentenced to 10 years’ prison for kidnapping and sexually assaulting two young children and will be eligible for parole after eight years. He lured the four-year-old girl and the five-year-old boy from a now-closed North Perth childcare centre, fined $40,000 for not adequately monitoring children. Mule took…

87-YEAR-OLD Betty Smith has been collecting used stamps for charity for nearly 30 years, recently handing over a record 33kg box of them to help the needy. The Inglewood resident is a familiar face at businesses in East Perth, the CBD, West Perth and Subiaco, as she goes stamp hunting twice a week. “I don’t…

LAST week in our Letters page we accidentally referred to Kate Thomson as a candidate for Bayswater’s west ward, but she’s actually running in south ward (that was our mistake: she knows where she’s running). Our apologies, Kate.

“MR KIMBERLEY” aka Sam Lovell AM has donated his personal archive of photos and memorabilia to the WA State Library. One of the stolen generation, he was taken from his family in 1936 when he was only three years old. He grew up working the cattle stations along the Gibb River Road. When working as…

AFTER 10 years of documenting crappy architecture, tasteless coco palm arrangements, terrible street art, and countless graffitied “cock and balls” motifs, The Worst of Perth founder Andrew McDonald is calling it a day. theworstofperth.com started September 27, 2007, when Mr McDonald promised to post “the worst examples of Perth design, art, culture and architecture,” as…

STIRLING WITH sitting councillor Rod Willox retiring after 25 years, there’s a big field of nominees for Stirling’s Lawley ward. Lawley Ward (1 vacancy): SUZANNE MIGDALE works in marketing for Fairfax and wants rates frozen for two years and compensation for seniors who lost their rates concession. She opposes any increase to the height of…

The “Safer Maylands” Facebook page was started up by Bayswater police in 2015 with hopes that community members would take over the day-to-day running of the site, but this election the community page hosted a paid-for ad for candidate Kate Thomson. If coppers endorsed a party-aligned candidate it would surely raise eyebrows, but it’s a…

TWO pet projects of Labor MP Lisa Baker collided this week when a pack of greyhounds dressed in rainbow clothes swung by her Maylands electoral office. The greyhound advocates/same-sex marriage supporters came to Ms Baker to chat with her about improvements to the greyhound racing industry, as it currently results in overbreeding and a lot…

AN old-fashioned village bake-off is in the works for November 11, with Perth MP John Carey saying he’s had a tidal wave of interest since casually floating the idea. He says whenever he puts a political post on Facebook he’ll get a couple of responses, but when he mentioned we should have a local baking…

Voice photographer Steve Grant snapped Ellenbrook family Lamchalf and Mulay Sonsang and their kids Moopweser and Hsamulan checking out a 12-metre kaleidoscope at the western promenade of Elizabeth Quay. There’s a bunch going on in the city over the school holidays, with ping pong tables down at Northbridge Piazza, animatronic dinosaurs at the convention centre…