IT started out in 1965 with a handful of blokes who were into hot rods and modifying cars. Fast forward to 2022 and the West Coast Street Rod Club has hundreds of members and is busy preparing for its annual Father’s Day Hot Rod Show, which has been running for the past three decades. Forget…

THE Galup (Lake Monger) story is coming to Vincent in September. Galup (or Kaarlup, a place of fires) is known to Noongars as a traditional camping and meeting place, and as the site of a colonial massacre in 1830. Noongar theatre-maker Ian Wilkes and artist and filmmaker Poppy van Oorde-Grainger created a multi-platform project telling its…

A SPATE of dog attacks has prompted Stirling council to consider “covert” park patrols to catch owners who illegally let them off the leash. After Stirling recorded 75 serious attacks in one year, councillor Tony Krsticevic moved a motion calling for a report on ways to better deal with off-leash dogs, citing concerns about attacks…

PERTH’s favourite Chook, The Perth Voice is a very rare bird. Very few places have their own independent news outlet, like the Chook, delivered free every week to thousands of homes in the cities of Vincent, Bayswater and Perth.  To do this the Chook relies on advertisements from healthy small business. Regrettably many of them,…

PERTH needs more people, Perth lord mayor Basil Zempilas says, and he’s called for an investigation into what’s keeping residents out and how to bring them in. There could be juicy bonuses for developers in store to lure them into building in the CBD instead of on the outskirts of Perth.  A bit over 30,000…

PERTH needs more people, Perth lord mayor Basil Zempilas says, and he’s called for an investigation into what’s keeping residents out and how to bring them in. There could be juicy bonuses for developers to lure them into building in the CBD instead of on the outskirts of Perth, with Mr Zempilas foreshadowing “incentives for increased…

LONG-EMPTY social housing in East Perth has been refurbished and reopened, with seven Federation-era cottages in the Parry Street heritage precinct getting $3 million in conservation works. Some have been empty for more than seven years (“Running on empty,” Voice, July 21, 2018).  Locals were tired of seeing the old places vacant and crumbling while homeless…

IN this week’s story of olde from Vincent’s Local History Centre historians, we have the tale of Leederville Oval from its early days as a wetland through to hosting women’s sports while the men were away at war, and the big ambitions to host high level plays in the 1960s and today.  FEW footy grounds…

CARNABY’S black cockatoo advocates have held a candlelight vigil on the steps of Parliament and handed over a petition calling for an emergency plan to protect the birds’ habitat. The petition seeks a halt to clearing of pine trees above the Gnangara Mound aquifer, and protection for southern woodlands subject to bauxite mining. The state…

FRENCH guitarist Ingrid Riollot moved to Australia in 2018 to marry guitar maker Damon Smallman and the couple now reside in rural Esperance.  It’s a pretty unlikely location for a world-class guitarist who’s criss-crossed continents while wowing audiences and scooping up a multitude of awards; likewise for the workshops of luthiers Smallman & Sons, whose…