Author: Your Herald
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FOR the first time owners of vacant blocks in Vincent were charged double rates this year. Fed up with empty lots plaguing the city like broken teeth, mayor John Carey proposed the plan to encourage landowners to do something constructive with their land. “There is a cost to the community,” he says. “Vacant blocks can…
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The owner of a Beaufort Street convenience and smoking accessories store is feeling the heat from some local reaction. Since opening Lucky 9 and Cloud 9 under one roof on May 1, the owner, who did not want his name used, says he’s had visits from the WA police, WA health department and Vincent city council.…
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LANDOWNERS in Vincent face a relatively mild 3.62 per cent rates increase this year. Mayor John Carey says “we’ve got the lowest rates rise in seven years”. Last year’s clocked in at 3.92 per cent, and before that it hovered in the mid-fours. The milder increase can be put down to cash coming through from…
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Hard questions are not bias IN his letter (Voice Mail, May 17, 2014) Michael Sutherland makes some interesting claims. 1. That GetUp is an activist organisation of the political left. 2. That there is not a single conservative anchorperson on any ABC current affairs program. How does he know? As a long-time member of the…
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“IF women have so many choices today, why do they all come in pink?” asks photographer and academic Deedee Noon. Her exhibition Pinkification: Rethinking Pink grew out of an entry a couple of years ago in FotoFreo. The series of portraits looks at the impact, and conflicting messages, of “pink is for girls”. The portrait…
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THE Sextet Dukes is putting the cool back into the ukelele, an instrument invented by Portuguese labourers slaving on the plantations of Hawaii in the 1880s. Relegated for years to child’s toy status they’ve been enjoying a resurgence of credibility thanks in part to Paul McCartney playing one at a George Harrison memorial concert. The…
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WE had the good sense to phone ahead for a table as we drove to the Beaufort Street Merchant in Highgate. Wafted to a corner nook at the back of the huge industrial-grunge theme eatery we felt quite smug as lesser mortals queued. The oft-heard lament around Perth is of poor service, but the folks…
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SHOPPERS flocked in when Perth’s first department store, Boan’s, opened in 1895, and by the end of its first day there wasn’t much left on the shelves. By 1912 the Boans brothers’ modest store had been replaced by a spiffing new building extending between Wellington and Murray Streets. And with so much stock, including bulky…
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FESTA della Repubblica is the Italian national holiday, making June 2 the most important day on the country’s calendar. It happily ties in with WA Day, ensuring celebrations for this year’s Italian Festival in Perth are enjoyed by many over the long weekend. The day marks the historic vote in 1946 when post-facsism and post-war…
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THE four Lenzarini brothers arrived in Australia with next to nothing in their pockets but a determination to make something of themselves. Leaving behind the lush green mountainous region of their home in the province of Lucca, Garfagnana in Tuscany, the flat brown harshness of WA in the 1950s was confronting to say the least.…
