IGA apartments ‘need more green’
ALANNAH MacTIERNAN is unhappy about a $16 million redevelopment just metres from her electorate office on Beaufort Street. This week the local development assessment panel approved plans to demolish the […]
Monthly Archives: June 2014
Council takes tougher line on heritage
THE circa 1894 shops at the corner of Newcastle and Charles are to be heritage listed without the consent of the owner, who wants to develop the site. Vincent council […]
Rules to change
HISTORICALLY Vincent council has listed buildings on category B only when the owner agrees. Mayor John Carey has flagged he wants to change the rules so council can unilaterally list […]
A song for heroes
A SERVICE will be held for Aboriginal soldiers this week, with the local Aboriginal-language choir Madjitil Moorna choir composing a song in their honour. The choir started back in 2006 […]
Back home
AFTER decades of private ownership the old Trades Hall is back in union hands, with the CFMEU shifting its HQ to the restored 1911 building. The Beaufort Street hall was […]
For exceptional seafood
RED CRAY ON BEAUFORT, Mount Lawley: If there is one thing brothers Gurpreet and Jagdave Singh know how to deliver, it is exceptional seafood. For 10 years, their fabulously popular […]
A noble cuisine
ROYAL CAMBODIAN, East Perth by JENNY D’ANGER: DAYDREAMING of the bone-melting heat of the tropics and the noise and pulse of a town on the Mekong, was preferable to the […]
