AARON SENZIO’S our footy writer. He loves the game, but reckons the AFL should take a lesson from the local boys on how to put on a show that doesn’t leave your ears bleeding and your enthusiasm waning. WHAT a weekend of football it was in WA! Two thrilling games; Saturday’s national league clash between West…

Candi Dasa’s normally bustling streets are despairingly empty; locals are in a dark place. BARBARA SABA is a WA psychologist/hypnotherapist who has spent a lot of time in the Balinese town of Candi Dasa where she runs retreats for her colleagues. But since Covid-19 Perth’s favourite ‘backyard’ has been off-limits to visitors, meaning locals are doing…

JUNE WINSOME SMITH lives with her partner James Kozak in Maylands. This isn’t the couple’s first appearance in the Voice, being dubbed “tree warriors” after they staged a sit-in and saved the life of a still-thriving, Grevillea Robusta tree in their unit complete from impending, and unlawful, destruction (October 10, 2019). In today’s SPEAKER’S CORNER…

IN this week’s storytime edition of Speaker’s Corner, North Perth sustainability and community gardening advocate Colin Scott tells us a parable about root vegetables and root causes. THE regional village was doing quite well for itself selling potatoes.  Many people were employed growing them and local kids had a pathway to earn income and then…

IN November a group of 11,000 scientists co-signed a letter stating that climate change was happening faster than previously thought, declaring a “climate emergency” requiring urgent change to how we live. Here in Perth, the local North of the River group of the global Extinction Rebellion movement have recently emerged from lockdown and have written this week’s…

GORDON WESTWOOD is Maylands resident and not-so-loyal subject of Her Majesty Elizabeth the Second, by the Grace of God Queen of Australia and Her other Realms and Territories, Head of the Commonwealth. IT is very odd the United Kingdom of Great Britain is desperately trying to convince themselves and everyone else through their disreputable mainstream television…

JESSE NOAKES is an advocate for homeless people who helps those who’ve reached the end of the road elsewhere. In this week’s SPEAKER’S CORNER he says Perth’s homeless people were let down during the Covid pandemic – and they won’t forget it. AS the pubs and gyms open up and the freeway returns to its…

DYING ALONE is an entry to the Museum of Perth’s Covid-19 Digital Archive written by JULIE McCLYMONT, about her father James Clarko who was unable to see his wife Edith and their children in his last days.  THIS story describes the loss of our elderly father, affected by hospital and aged care restrictions on visiting…

Dr ANNA SMET is the animal welfare manager at Racing and Wagering WA. In today’s Speaker’s Corner she rejects last week’s “Grey area” by animal lover Andrea Pollard who said not enough has been done to protect racing greyhounds from life-threatening injuries. AS the state’s principal racing authority, Racing and Wagering Western Australia (RWWA) is…

MOST sports around the country are shut down, but greyhounds in WA are still running every day without a live audience in race meets closed to the public. In this week’s Speaker’s Corner, Coalition for the Protection of Greyhounds’ WA divisional manager Andrea Pollard reminds us these animals are still being badly injured. IN a…