… and they have no home PORTRAITS of homeless Western Australians were hung in federal Parliament this week, a call to Canberra’s politicians to act on growing numbers of women experiencing homelessness. The Eye Contact exhibition was organised by five WA Rotary Clubs in hopes of putting a face to the issue, focusing on the…

BAYSWATER Women’s Hub marked Women’s Shed Week by celebrating all the projects, builds, repairs and repaintings its members have accomplished this year. The BWH is home to a tool library and a women’s workshop. Over the past year or so they’ve transformed the old kiosk, changerooms and bunker at Maylands’ Shearn Memorial Park from a…

THIS week from the archives at the Vincent Local History Centre: A look back at bigamy, a now-rare crime that was once a commonly reported malfeasance in the newspapers of olde. A PERTH man was recently charged with bigamy, which is the act of going through a marriage ceremony despite being already married.   Bigamy…

EX-WA singer Jewel Owusu is making waves for all the right reasons. Since making the move from Perth to Melbourne in August last year, Owusu has featured on radio station Triple R, turned up on several Apple Music playlists, opened for ARIA nominated performer Vera Blue in Federation Square last month and performed at several…

FORMER Stirling mayor David Boothman has been named the 10th Honorary Freeman of the City. The award is bestowed on citizens in recognition of service to the city, and current mayor Mark Irwin said that across Mr Boothman’s 27 years on council he’d served on almost every committee. Mr Boothman was recognised for his efforts…

13-YEAR-OLD Fremantle athlete Ava Rodgers already has a trophy cabinet bursting at the seams, but she’s aiming to hit new heights at the triathlon national championships this month. Rodgers was selected for the School Sport triathlon state team after a bumper athletic season that included winning the Rockingham Foreshore Triathlon in the 12-13 age category,…

THE City of Perth logo is to be stripped from signs advertising the construction of a new pedestrian bridge beside the causeway with lord mayor Basil Zempilas blaming increasing frostiness between the McGowan government and his council. At the February 28 council meeting Mr Zempilas said the McGowan state government has shown an emerging pattern…

SMITH STREET residents have informally marked the start of the eighth year of the Stirling Towers lying empty. Nearby resident Raymond Clarke told the Voice he was annoyed the derelict former public housing towers now hosted rats, bats, squatters, vandals, and interlopers who snuck in to look around.  Even the security measures intended to keep…

THE Safe Night Space for women in East Perth has been granted another six months’ funding from Perth council to keep operating until November 30. A split council also voted to look into continuing the service in other locations after it vacates the Rod Evans Centre, a proposal that was described by Cr Brent Fleeton…

FILM fans lured by signs promising a free movie and a sausage sizzle in local parks have instead been confronted by evangelical flicks followed by a sermon and recruitment ceremony. In recent weeks the film offerings have popped up at Gibbney Reserve in Maylands, McKenzie Reserve in Embleton, and Mills Avenue Park in Bayswater. There’s…