This first article broke the news of an alternative school that had its funding cut by the Federal Government three months into the school year.

 Funding snub a blow to teens (Village Voice Balmain, June 2007)

This second article reported happier news, brought about by Village Voice readers

All photographs by Belinda Lopez

Calling out for help (Village Voice Drummoyne, June 2007)

Profile of a female Thai Boxer in Leichhardt, Sydney.

No Shrinking Violets here (Village Voice Balmain, May 2007)

Frank Marjason, 92, may be new to digital photography but he captured the living conditions in the Aboriginal missions of Queensland with a box brownie in 1937.

An Inherent Creative (Village Voice Drummoyne, May 2007)

Cookbook matriarch ponders life stirring the pot (Village Voice March 2007)

A selection from a series of articles published in the Village Voice (Drummoyne, Five Dock and Concord) about Canada Bay Council and the sale of land in the Strathfield Triangle, before and after it was covered by the Sydney Morning Herald and other suburban papers.

• Accusations of bias levelled against council (March 16 2007)
• Cantali’s claims rejected by colleagues (Village Voice Drummoyne, May 2007
• Cantali vs Council in Triangle Saga (Village Voice Drummoyne, July 2007)

Callan Park is a 104.5 acre open park in the Leichhardt municipality in Sydney, and has stirred community activism, and the interest to politicians, developers, and mental health workers.

Uni lease shows ‘contempt’ for community (Village Voice Balmain, July 2007)

Big Ideas with the Callan Park masterplan finally in sight (Village Voice Balmain, June 2007)

PR Ping Pong (Village Voice Balmain , May 2007)

WHOS lease waits on election (article on Planning Minister Frank Sartor) (Village Voice Balmain, March 2007)