Author: Your Herald
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BEGGARS may soon be outlawed in Perth, with the city council considering asking the WA government to “reintroduce a law to make begging an offence”. Begging is illegal in Victoria, South Australia, Tasmania and Queensland. The PCC’s finance committee is looking at bringing together homelessness agencies to assist in “dealing with the issues causing begging”.…
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WORKS are underway at the Oxford Street park. Vincent council’s giving the area a facelift, with: • more shadzed seating near the playground for parents to have a coffee and keep an eye on the kids; • the park extended to the coffee shop so there’s not a road separating it from the park; •…
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TEN security cameras have been installed at the Terry Tyzack aquatic centre following a spate of car break-ins. The state-of-the-art cameras, positioned around the centre and car park, will be linked to the WA police “blue iris” CCTV network and have day and night capability. Stirling mayor Giovanni Italiano says the extra surveillance will give…
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PERTH city council has rejected Subiaco’s proposal for an all-in merger, instead preferring to take just the juiciest parts of its neighbour’s infrastructure assets. Perth lord mayor Lisa Scaffidi stressed her council’s first preference remained its own submission to slightly expand its borders to take in a small slither of Vincent along with Burswood, UWA,…
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Not being negative CONTRARY to mayor John Carey’s rude remarks at a previous council meeting, I am not about just being negative. Asking questions or questioning the decisions of council is not just being negative. I have been going to council meetings for six years and have read more background, more reports and more council…
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GIVEN it had been just a week after her fourth round of chemo and my friend’s mouth was also swollen from unrelated emergency dental work I was beginning to think bringing her along to a food review might have been a mistake. Especially after she bit her numb lip, mistaking it for chicken. Rocking up…
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SCRIPTWRITER Ross Lonnie wanted to write a play about the Second World War and was struggling when, out of the blue, he was sent a transcript of his father’s war diary. Once he started reading, Uncle Jack fell into place. “[The diary] is beautifully written—so understated, no hint of self-pity,” Lonnie says. “It’s an account…
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A SERIES of solid cast-iron bicycle seat moulds remain under the floor of the converted warehouse at the rear of this Mt Lawley property. The expansive building has been put to a number of uses over the years, including a bike and a kapok mattress factory, and a dairy. It was a gymnasium in 1939…
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PLANS for WA’s first waste-to-energy plant are in doubt after the WA environmental protection authority ordered a 12-month review of the facility over “potential air quality issues” and public concern. The eastern metropolitan regional council wants to build the $25 million plant 15km north-east of Perth in Hazelmere, at an existing recycling site, to convert…
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THE kids from North Perth primary are coming back for your olives, after last year’s inaugural harvest produced an award-winning oil. What started as a small fundraiser plan to raise money for a new playground went massive when Voice readers offered up their trees, groaning with fruit, for plucking. The kids collected more than…
