FACILITIES at Morley’s Beales Park are so “third world” that young female players “change into their playing strip behind towels in the middle of the park”. Noranda Women’s Football Club is currently based at the Noranda sporting complex, sharing facilities with two other clubs. It’s pretty crowded and means the complex grounds are often booked…

A LOCAL doco will delve into the history of Italian cuisine around Perth. Adrian Craddock decided to make Spaghetti in the Suburbs after hearing his nonna’s tales about how important the comfort of food was to a young immigrant growing up in a strange new country. “My nonna came over to Australia in the ‘50s,”…

VINCENT mayor John Carey is furious Perth City Council has gone behind his back to secretly poll his ratepayers. Perth-appointed pollsters have been phoning Vincent residents asking a series of questions about amalgamations, including whether they wanted their small council’s suburbs to be kept together, and how they’d feel about being in Perth. Mr Carey…

PERTH gallery staff and politicians are mulling over the fallout from the WA art gallery’s dramatic cancellation of its three remaining shows from the Museum of Modern Art in New York exhibition. The six-exhibition modern masterpieces series—which has already featured art legends Van Gogh, Picasso and Salvador Dali—was cut short when rising insurance costs and…

RESIDENTS around Haig Park Circle bought in thinking a restrictive covenant would keep nearby land as a car park, but now a developer wants a 60-unit block on the site. Subiaco-based Kingsway Pty Ltd bought the 2233sqm site from the East Perth Redevelopment Authority for a song, paying just $205,000 precisely because the covenant restricted…

PRIMARY schools in Voiceland are losing around $154,000 as part of the WA government’s swingeing budget cuts. Figures released by WA education minister Peter Collier to Labor MP Ljiljanna Ravlich reveal the dollar amount of every cut. A 30 per cent reduction in resource allocation, introduction of a long-service leave liability levy, procurement savings and…

PARKING on verges near Maylands train station is causing accidents on Railway Parade says a local business owner. Blackcurrant Clothing owner Catherine Ehrhardt says she sees numerous accidents every month on the busy thoroughfare. She sent the Voice a photo this week of the latest crash, which happened when the driver of a burgundy car…

THE lingerie football league has been branded sexist and damaging to women’s sport by a Vincent local calling for games at Perth Oval to be scrapped. Michelle Dean told councillors, “the LFL require bikini photos of their potential players before they’re accepted”. “They’re required to sign an ‘accidental nudity’ clause if they want to be…

stories by DAVID BELL: BIG lamp out, big pen in. A controversial artwork has finally been chosen for the even more controversial unit/office development at 1 Albert Street in North Perth. The artist’s first attempt, a 300kg lamp, received a thunderous thumbs down from locals with 16 of 20 submissions opposing Robin Yakinthou’s piece. A…

AN historic 1910 billiard table from the WA parliament—played on by billiards legend and MP Bob Marshall—has been loaned to students at Edith Cowan University. The full-size table, which was gathering dust in the long-disused parliamentary snooker room, is now in the central cafe at ECU’s Mt Lawley campus. The $15,000 table has been restored…