IN this week’s Speaker’s Corner Coolbinia resident Jan Ravet shares some thoughts about high density housing, prompted by the ongoing proposal for five-storey apartments and shops at the corner of […]

AFTER reading our opinion piece by Jan Ravet on “The hidden cost” of infill development (Voice, April 15, 2023), reader Bruce Taylor pens this counterpoint he titles “The hidden cost of low […]

WITH the Development Assessment Panel soon to decide on a five-storey block of units opposed by neighbours and the local council, Coolbinia resident JAN RAVET argues there are little-considered social […]

   Dr MIKE BAMFORD’S principle area of work is in population ecology of vertebrates (amphibians, reptiles, birds and mammals) and he has been an environmental consultant since 1987. Dr Bamford […]

IN this week’s Speakers’ Corner environmental scientist MARY GRAY responds to recent coverage of the state government’s lack of a plan to protect native vegetation. Ms Gray was awarded an […]

DAVID BUTTERFIELD was conscripted as an infantry gunner when he was called up for National Service in 1966. In this week’s THINKING ALLOWED he recalls what that time was like, […]

GREG ASH is a Mount Lawley resident and member of the members-only Mount Lawley golf club. He says how the club manages the hundreds of trees and shrubs that line […]

THIS week Canadian psychologist Jordan Peterson, dubbed “dangerous” by WA media, was in Perth for two public lectures. The West Australian newspaper’s description of him as a “gateway to far-right […]

MARY GRAY is an environmental scientist who was awarded the OAM in this year’s Queen’s birthday honours for her service to conservation and the environment. In this piece she reminds us […]

COLIN MENDELSOHN was the founding chair of the charity Australian Tobacco Harm Reduction Association. In this week’s Speaker’s Corner he argues that a blanket ban on nicotine in vapes is […]