Author: Your Herald
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Be sad no Moore SOMEONE needs to buy “Dazzling” Darryl Moore (Voice Mail, May 31, 2014) a copy of Coping With Loss by Anita Naik. It has been almost 10 months since Alannah MacTiernan trounced Mr Moore by 8.8 per cent in the federal election, yet we continue to see letters from the failed candidate…
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FROM roadkill to life—albeit still—isn’t a quantum leap for artist Marian Drew. For years the Brisbane-based artist has used dead native animals in her works, to highlight the loss of species from urbanisation. “It helps people know what’s actually there living with us,” Drew tells the Voice. But the allure of death, however beautifully posed…
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FRIED chicken with buttermilk pancake, peanuts, maple butter and fried egg? You’ve got to admire an eatery that can not only come up with the combination, but actually pull it off. My lunch companion was in seventh heaven with her huge serve of crispy, fried chicken topping a thick, sweet pancake, runny egg drizzling down…
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THICK limestone walls, a trio of cute peaked roof pitches and a bullnosed roof had me wondering whether this Pakenham Street, Mt Lawley abode was a heritage home made new. But no, it’s a mere teenager. No expense was spared creating this four-bedroom/two-bathroom home 13 years ago. The limestone isn’t cladding but rather huge blocks…
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LOCAL artist Ken Sealey’s plan to run a small hotel from his Highgate home remains alive, with Vincent councillors deferring the decision. Planning staff were deadset on refusing the plan, but councillors picked up some oddities in the rules being applied and held off for now. Mr Sealey, who crafted the big blue head outside…
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THREE Bayswater sports clubs that face losing their grounds are filthy with the Bayswater city council and Bayswater Soccer Club for freezing them out of major plans for Frank Drago Reserve. The soccer club is keen for the reserve to become the new $25 million home of soccer in WA (Voice, May 24, 2014) and…
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FIFTY-TWO people have applied to be Vincent CEO. The job is vacant after councillors decided 7-1 not to renew veteran CEO John Giorgi’s contract. Following that decision some of Mr Giorgi’s supporters reckoned the council—which may disappear in mergers—would have trouble filling the role. “In fact it’s been quite the opposite,” says mayor John Carey.…
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A WOMAN quoted in last week’s story about smoking accessory merchant Cloud 9 was not the “old lady” alleged to have racially abused the shop’s owner. The woman quoted—who was also unhappy to see her name published—says she has never spoken to the owner. The Voice apologises to the woman for causing her distress, and…
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PERTH city council CEO Gary Stevenson has taken WA premier Colin Barnett to task over council rates. The premier has criticised councils for raising rates too high but Mr Stevenson says WA government cost-shifting is forcing councils’ hands. At Tuesday’s finance committee meeting of the council, Mr Stevenson pointed out that while “the premier went…
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BAYSWATER ratepayers will “likely” pay more for waste collection following the doubling of the WA government’s landfill levy, mayor Sylvan Albert has conceded. With the fee skyrocketing to $55 a tonne, Bayswater’s bill for the 18,000 tonnes of waste it sends to landfill every year jumps from $495,000 to $990,000. “It’s likely that it will…
