Author: Your Herald
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AUSTRALIA’S competition watchdog is worried about Coles’ proposed takeover of the Supa IGA in Dianella. If the takeover proceeds, Coles will own half the 10 supermarkets within 3km of the store, one of four Supa IGAs in WA in Coles’ sights. “The [Australian Competition and Consumer Commission’s] preliminary view is that the proposed acquisition may…
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CHRIS BARTY was three-and-a-half years old before he could walk. It took him two years to learn to operate a manual car. Barty was born with spastic diplegia, a form of cerebral palsy he says is “equivalent to having the legs of an 85-year-old”. Now 25, he has come on leaps and bounds and is…
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HE is Maylands’ best-kept secret. Down on Tranby Reserve, in the old forgotten interpretive centre building, artisan Matt McVeigh is beavering away, making sets for the stage production of Cloud Street, painting landscapes, and designing mechanical kangaroos. He moved into the building in 2010, courtesy of a subsidised rent arrangement with Bayswater city council, and…
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VINCENT city council’s rejection of four units on a Mt Hawthorn block is being appealed to the powerful but unelected state administrative tribunal. The infill plan is intensely unpopular with residents around Lynton Street, who’d shown up in force at the council to urge rejection: “We do not want to have multi-dwellings in our street,”…
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Left right out on ABC LISTENING to Amanda Vanstone on Radio National the other week I could not help but think, if the rest of the mainstream media is so right-wing that it makes the ABC seem left, why does Amanda Vanstone get a radio gig and how does she get away with a reference…
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SHAKESPEARE’S St Crispin’s Day speech (Henry V) has been a rallying cry for battle down the ages, and was even used recently by rugby coach Walley Lewis to gee up his “troops” pre-game. More than 400 years after it was penned it resonates with the turbulent brutality of conflict around the modern world, showing little…
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I WAS cold and hungry and I needed a lot of meat, and Pleased to Meet You fit the bill. Down on Roe Street, the yank barbecue joint was set up by La Cholita and Who’s Your Mumma founder Clint Nolan. The place has a friendly communal eating hall feel, with strangers sitting at long…
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“UNDER a spreading chestnut tree,” Longfellow famously wrote and the sight of one of these magnificent trees in this Dianella garden had me wanting to pen a few lines of my own. But on reflection, it’s best not. Sitting on 810sqm the garden of this Morley Drive home is the sort you can graze on…
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PARENTS are worried $200,000 allocated for a safe crossing on Guildford Road could be sabotaged because of a funding stoush on Bayswater council The road is so dangerous to cross that several parents refuse to walk their kids to local schools and are driving instead, despite the short distance. Karen Bedell crosses Guildford Road six…
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THE installation of signs to slow down traffic on Beaufort Street has been delayed by a lack of state government funding. More than two years after WA main roads committed to fund and install 40kph flashing signs on the stretch between Walcott Street and 150 metres south of Queens Crescent the project remains on the…
