PERTH council CEO Martin Mileham has hit back at suggestions they’ve neglected the east end of the city, saying the council’s pumped several millions into the area over the years. Perth MP John Carey has been holding “City Summit” forums asking locals for suggestions to improve their area, and says a lot of locals he’d…

FEDERAL Perth MP Tim Hammond has backed a plan to crack down on robotic ticket scalpers following more shady deals, this time for former Beatle Paul McCartney’s Perth concert in December. Automated “bots” slipped through a gap in Sir Paul’s website to snap up a large number of seats that had been intended for a…

MORLEY GALLERIA traders want Bayswater to prioritise a fire safety audit of the shopping centre, saying it is an accident waiting to happen. Last week the Voice reported Bayswater councillor Chris Cornish had met with CEO Andrew Brien and requested they check if any of the flammable aluminium cladding, which contributed to the Grenfell tower…

VINCENT council has to spend around $400,000 on emergency building repairs at Beatty Park, just a year after the leisure centre’s $17 million upgrade. In mid-December 2016 a huge chunk of render collapsed overnight, sending rubble crashing onto the eastern pool deck where spectators sit during the day. Parts of the centre are new but…

OPERA on a barge in Claisebrook Cove, arts markets in East Perth and creative pop-up shops are some of the ideas locals have come up with at the first-ever City Summits. The community workshops, where locals discuss ways of revitalising the city, have proved popular, with 90 people attending in East Perth and 60 in…

ARTIST JD Penangke will teach Nyoongar culture through song at NAIDOC Week. This year’s NAIDOC theme is “Our Languages matter,” focusing on the role language plays in cultural history and the way it links Aboriginal people to the land through story and song. Since colonisation, more than 100 distinct Aboriginal languages have died off. Today…

DONALD TRUMP has blocked Perth Voice cartoonist Jason Chatfield on Twitter. Mr Chatfield can no longer tweet the US president or read his tweets. Unlike many celebrities, Mr Trump claims to manage his own Twitter account. Chatfield says he was blocked after the president, “had been tweeting this slew of wacky, incomprehensible garbage ([some] of…

A NEW business incubator at Leederville’s YMCA HQ aims to remove one of the barriers for young people getting into performance and art. HQ manager Andrew Rigg told the Voice a couple of staff came up with the idea about two years ago after noticing the large number of incubators popping up around Perth were…

ANIMAL photographer Alex Cearns is teaming up with artist Matt Mawson to hold an art exhibition raising money for the Dogs Refuge Home of WA. Many of the pooches abandoned there need expensive surgery and the money will go towards their medical fees. Cearns from North Perth’s Houndstooth Studio, whose animal photography takes her around…

PERTH MP John Carey has torn strips off Perth lord mayor Lisa Scaffidi’s council allies, describing their cosy relationship with the former Liberal state government as a “protection racket”. While debating a bill on Wednesday to have councils audited by the auditor general, Mr Carey singled out Perth as an example of why codes of…