PERTH wunderkind Adam Taggart has been named in the Socceroos’ extended 30-man squad for the World Cup. The 20-year-old Newcastle Jets striker won the Golden Boot after scoring 16 goals in a breakout 2013-14 A-League season. Before moving to the NSW outfit, he played for Perth Glory from 2010-12, making 10 appearances. Football West CEO…

SELF-DESCRIBED Mt Lawley paedophile Harry Holland is appealing a child pornography conviction, arguing his Rockspider magazines have social history value. Police found three issues of the magazine in Holland’s house in 2010. Also known as both Colin Nugent and Emu Nugent, Holland has owned the magazines since the mid-1980s. While the publications have no images…

THE street prostitution name and shame list is empty, with Vincent city council putting a drought of recent convictions down to the issue being “largely resolved”. In 2013 the Alannah MacTiernan-led council resolved to publish the names of people convicted of soliciting a prostitute around Smith and Stirling Streets in Highgate. The names stay up…

CCTV has been rolled out on Beaufort Street, with 47 cameras installed along its length. The cash came from a $184,000 WA government proceeds of crimes grant. The coppers helped pick the best spots for the cameras. It’s hoped they’ll help cut down vandalism and biffo, and perhaps even the murder of trees. “CCTV might…

A NEAR-DEATH experience for a chihuahua has prompted Stirling council’s decision to install bicycle barriers outside the playground at Yokine Reserve. A joint cycle-pedestrian track skirts the playground’s western entrance, which is on the bend of a steep hill that restricts visibility. Cr Joe Ferrante told colleagues he’d been cycling downhill towards the blind corner…

A QUARTER OF A MILLION people have signed a petition calling on the Abbott government to not cut funding to the ABC. The whopping document was dropped off simultaneously at 60 federal MPs’ offices around Australia, including Labor’s Alannah MacTiernan in Perth. More than 1600 Perth electors signed the GetUp! petition. “We want the ABC…

MAYLANDS residents are lobbying for a WA liquor commission hearing on Woolworths’ plan to open a 990sqm Dan Murphy’s at the Peninsula Tavern site. The $3.5 million Railway Parade redevelopment will include a family-friendly bistro, which locals are happy with, but many oppose the giant bottleshop that comes with it. After winning planning approval, the…

THE internet has killed The Language Centre Bookshop in Leederville, which pulls down the shutters on 32 years on June 30. When the Voice met sanguine owner Annie Folk on Monday, the 204sqm store was cloaked in shadow, its lights only turned on for customers. Ms Folk says a combination of falling sales, soaring utility…

A 28-METRE crash barrier will be installed in the grounds of Inglewood pre-primary following two road accidents in seven months. Earlier this month an accident occurred near the Hamer Parade school just before closing time. Last year a car ended up against the boundary fence. As well as installing the $7000 barrier, Stirling city council…

TEDx is coming to Perth concert hall, as long as the organisers of the techy conference can get organic gluten-free vegetarian food options and high-speed internet at the new venue. Technology, Entertainment and Design conferences first started in 1984 with the tagline “ideas worth spreading”. Notable TED talkers have included Bill Clinton and Bill Gates,…