Author: Your Herald
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WHAT does it mean to grow up in a war zone? How do you play? Do you dare to dream?” director Melissa Cantwell asks. From the Rubble is a multi-art performance about women living in conflict zones, inspired by the work of WA award-winning writer and journalist Sophie McNeill. As a foreign correspondent with SBS…
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A NAKED life-sized Freud slumped in a chair, tiny sculptures and huge tapestries are just some of the artworks at PICA’s An Internal Difficulty, Australian Artists at the Freud Museum. Back home, WA artists Thea Costantino, Pilar Mata Dupont, Susan Flavell, Tarryn Gill, Travis Kelleher and Andrew Nicholls took two years to create their works for…
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PEAK hour traffic and road works had me hot and bothered as I arrived at this Woodroyd Street home. But there’s something about Mt Lawley, with its many trees and gracious old homes that has a soothing effect. By the time I was on the wraparound verandah of this delightful four-bedroom home, I could feel…
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BAYSWATER mayor Sylvan Albert has blasted Colin Barnett for a “shambolic” handling of now-abandoned council mergers. The WA government’s plan to slash the number of WA councils from 30 to 16 local was officially cancelled Tuesday, with the premier returning to Treasury $60 million that had been set aside. “The blame lies firmly with the…
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THE Leederville laneway festival has been cancelled following a Vincent council error, leaving the promoter out of pocket and considering compensation. Last week the council approved the event by the skin of its teeth, with a 4-4 decision coming down to the casting vote of mayor John Carey (Voice, February 14, 2015). But this week…
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WITH council mergers dead and now half-buried, we caught up with some of the street coordinators who’d volunteered to run Vincent’s campaign to not split. Eighteen months ago they joined more than 1000 locals opposed to the northern half of Vincent being shipped off to Stirling and the south going to Perth. Geoff Cooper, Joel…
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SEVEN bike repair stations have popped up around Vincent so riders can do a little tune up on the fly. They’re fitted with screwdrivers, wrenches, allen keys, tyre levers and a pump and cost Vincent council $5500 and the WA transport department $3500. They’re operating now at Woodville Reserve, Oxford Street, Beatty Park, Forrest Park,…
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MELBOURNE, Sydney, Brisbane, even in the Perth CBD: just about everywhere in the civilised world, scooter parking is free or mega cheap, but you’ll still pay full price at Perth train station carparks. Authorities often offer cheaper scooter and motorbike parking to acknowledge they don’t produce as much congestion or pollution as full-size cars. UWA…
