Author: Your Herald
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Wiped out, overnight I WRITE on behalf of the Italo-Australian Welfare & Cultural Centre Inc (IAWCC) in response to “Language shake-up,” (Voice, November 29, 2014). For 36 years the IAWCC has run its community language program for Italian in both mainstream schooling and after-hour school programs. Throughout this period, the IAWCC has strictly adhered to…
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THERE’S so more to Dr Seuss than green eggs and ham, as a Perth exhibition of works from every facet of the great man’s life will show. It includes rare early works through to iconic illustrations from the Dr Seuss children’s books, along with limited edition prints and bizarre sculptures. But don’t expect originals: those…
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THE smells and sounds of Korea rippled around the walls of the Cori Anna Restaurant and my lunch companion and I enjoyed the feeling of being in a world away from home. Kimchi is a staple of Korean cooking, and the fermented cabbage features in a number of dishes on this menu. We kicked off…
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ELSTREE Film Studios is known as the birthplace of Star Wars, and over its 87 years has been the studio of choice for legendary directors such as Alfred Hitchcock, Steven Spielberg and George Lucas. Well, any director looking for a picture-perfect setting for a wholesome family movie, perhaps with a dog and happy, contented children,…
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LUCKY the guinea pig has taken a bigger battering than John McClane in Die Hard. A cruel owner had abandoned the tiny cavy, suspending him from Shelley Bridge in a plastic bag and leaving him to suffocate and cook in the hot sun. He’d tried to claw his way out but fell from the bridge,…
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WA Consumer Protection has issued a warning about a tree lopping company it’s charged with trying to fleece an 88-year-old Coolbinia man out of $1000. Talbot Bashall, 88, was flustered when men from West Australian Tree Services knocked on his door, demanding payment for pruning a tree on his verge. Mr Bashall (right) claims he…
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EVERY council was supposed to get one, but Perth city council reckons it never received a letter from Byron mayor Simon Richardson asking it to support marriage equality. The NSW-based mayor has been writing to councils across the nation to try to get them on board with an equality proclamation he wants to submit to…
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EIGHTY PER CENT of funding for community language education is being spent teaching Italian in Catholic schools. WA multicultural minister Mike Nahan, who’d ordered a review into the $1 million program, has criticised the WA education department for the imbalance, saying it has “not run this program well”. “The Italian community has an after-school program,…
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A SUPREME court appeal by local councils to prevent amalgamations has completely fizzled, with chief justice Wayne Martin swiftly dismissing all four points of the plaintiffs’ arguments. A morning of arguments saw Mr Martin return from lunch with a near-instant discounting of the councils’ case. Lawyer Chris Shanahan had argued that WA local government advisory…
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THE Voice understands Stirling city council will not pursue legal action against the WA government over boundary changes. The council sought seek legal advice on a boundary change that will see some of Mt Lawley and Inglewood, move into a new Bayswater mega council. But the Voice understands that in a closed-doors meeting held Tuesday,…
