Author: Your Herald
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MAYLANDS locals are pushing for a plaque to recognise the contributions of Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander service personnel at the local war memorial. Around 1000 Aborigines are believed to have served in WWI and 5000 in WWII, but the figure could be far higher, as at the time the department of veterans affairs was…
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TEMPLE David in Mount Lawley has a new rabbi. Israeli-born Adi Cohen says he took on the job in Perth because it represented a challenge to strengthen the local Jewish community. “When I came here for the final interview I saw the potential in the place,” he says. “It’s very easy to take a role…
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PLANS to erect a 29-metre telecommunications tower near a Morley suburban street has the local ratepayers’ association fuming. Commander Telephone Services wants to erect the tower beside its warehouse on Boag Road, 185m from houses on Drake Street and around 210m from residences on Walter Road West. The tower would be used for private communication…
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Far from perfect ARTHUR MISTILIS draws a long bow saying Stirling is “a perfectly working council” (Voice Mail, November 1, 2014). One doesn’t have to look far to find that assertion wrong. 1. The council dithered over the Scarborough foreshore revitalisation for about 20 years. Finally the Barnett government had to appoint the MRA to…
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FROM the comfort of our footpath table we watched the queue outside Milkd lengthen down the street and thanked our lucky stars we’d beaten the morning rush. Then everyone realised the person at the head of the queue wasn’t queuing at all but merely leaning against the wall waiting for someone inside. Doh! Our table…
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WHY give an exhibition a name nobody can say and which causes immense difficulty for keyboard-challenged journalists on old computers? To demonstrate that the Perth arts community isn’t silenced by the closure of many of its galleries in recent years, says Merrick Belyea. “We are not silenced we still have a voice, but it’s an…
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THIS year’s Pride parade is set to be the biggest yet, with a resurgence of interest from the many and varied sides of the the LGBTIQ community (lesbian, gay, bisexual, transgender, intersex, queer). “It’s going to be fabulous…a lot of colour and a lot more participants,” Pride co-president Michelle Rigg says. Perth’s cultural centre will…
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NO sooner had the vendor of this Maylands home mentioned dolphins than two appeared—as if by magic. Actually it really was magic watching the pair working the still waters for fish. With a couple of pelicans, an assortment of water birds and maggies warbling overhead, Harry Potter couldn’t have conjured a more mesmerising scene. “Feel…
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AROUND 100 Perth Kurds—a quarter of the city’s estimated Kurdish population—marched through Perth’s CBD on Saturday to protest against Islamic State. Joined by supporters, the marchers carried placards opposing IS’s oppression of Kurds in the northern Syrian town of Kobane. IS militants have taken hundreds captive over the past year as part of a brutal…
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THE Film and Television Institute has sacked four managers with a combined 20 years’ experience. The FTI board’s October 30 decision follows the Abbott government’s decision to slash $240,000 in funding, about 15 per cent of FTI’s budget. The people to go are business, marketing, production support and customised training program managers. Last month FTI…
