Author: Your Herald
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FOR one day of the year, Aboriginal people are made to feel welcome, and their ancient culture embraced, at Wellington Square. Tuesday’s Sorry Day reconciliation event—marking the date 18 years ago when the Bringing them Home report into stolen children was released—saw hundreds show up to the square which has a long and not always…
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BAYSWATER city councillor Chris Cornish has roasted Lisa Scaffidi over her acceptance of BHP Billiton’s corporate hospitality, worth about $16,000 at the Beijing Olympics seven years ago. The Perth lord mayor has been referred to the WA crime and corruption commission by the Australian federal police, who were alerted by their US counterparts in a…
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ONE of the last sneaky free parking spots in the inner-city may soon cost thrifty parkers $2.40 an hour. Vincent council’s parking department wants to spend $43,650 on ticket machines it can spread through the Fitzgerald Street carpark that’s tucked in a “discreet location” behind the Italian Club. A hidden oasis of free bays for…
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PERTH’S Asian-Australian community leaders are stepping up for this year’s St Vincent de Paul CEO sleepout to raise funds for WA’s homeless. Perth councillor and lawyer Lily Chen is sleeping out for her first year and has already raised $12,300 of her $13,000 target. Leona Gu from the GTL Group has donated in past years…
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Polite applause WHILE Chatfield’s “Lisa Michelle” (Voice, May 16, 2015) might differ in style from the “Mona Lisa”— and anyway, Perth’s lord mayor is facing the opposite direction—his effort is plausible and worth applause. Neither can Ms Scaffidi be taken for a woman of Algiers, yet by acquiring her portrait Perth city council might well…
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SILENT discos, foreign film festivals and street art are just some of the things councillor Stephanie Coates reckons can kickstart a civic renaissance in Bayswater. She says the area in and around King William Street is tired-looking and in need of some council love. “When we asked the community who would like to host a…
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IT’S been a fair few decades since Bob Poolman was in short pants at North Perth primary school but his memories of the place are so good he’s donated a rare collection of art to raise funds. Having bought some jars of olive oil from the P&C’s annual fundraising drive—which he’d read about in the…
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A WOMAN allegedly throwing rocks at cars in Highgate will undergo a mental health assessment before facing court on disorderly conduct and damages charges. A BMW driver swerved on busy Lord Street Wednesday morning when a rock smashed into his passenger door. After stopping he spotted a woman nearby and alerted police. The man then…
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A MAYLANDS actor could be playing to an empty theatre after a French-style farce involving iiNet and NBN contractors. For three weeks the Old Mill Theatre has been unable to take phone bookings for its June 5 performance of Summer of the Seventeenth Doll, because its phone has been disconnected. Internet service provider iiNet thought…
