Author: Your Herald
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VINCENT councillors have voted to ban themselves from attending interstate conferences for this term. Mayor John Carey proposed the ban, which won unanimous support, because of the amount of work to be done before amalgamations next year. “To demonstrate that there’s a serious commitment to the community, we’re saying there’ll be no external council trips.”…
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THE reserve at Wade Street could soon be known as Boat People Park or Tu Do Pak (a shortened version of Liberty Park). After long debate the park was last year chosen for the Vietnamese Community WA’s monument to thank Australians for welcoming refugees at the end of the Vietnam War.
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PLANS to make Beales Park a permanent home for Noranda Women’s Football Club have been scrapped, following concerns from local residents. The Morley club wanted to build a changing room and pavilion at the park, after club president Chris Blake complained “women had to change into their playing strip behind towels in the middle of…
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THE WA senate re-election is a cruel blow for the Liberal party which has every right to be “particularly aggrieved” says Notre Dame University political lecturer Martin Drum. Western Australians are expected to return to the polls in April or May to elect six senators after the Australian Electoral Commission admitted it had lost 1370…
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PERTH dog lovers have established a WA Italian greyhound club, the first of its kind in Australia. Founding member Francesca Perino—who owns 33cm tall Nica—says they formed the club after people flocked to their page on Facebook. The tiny hound—just taller than a ruler and as light as 3.6kg—is often mistaken for a baby whippet.…
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Umbrage for Armadale AT the Vincent council meeting of February 25 there were a number of speakers, of whom some were challenged by the mayor about being “appropriate” and/or “disrespectful”. Can someone please explain why the mayor’s favoured candidate for the by-election, James Peart, was not pulled up for the extraordinarily elitist and disrespectful comment…
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MY mum is a huge fan of those feisty females you see in sit-coms, such as Bea in Golden Girls, but her favourite is Endora, Darrin’s mother-in-law from hell in Bewitched. My husband was, many many years ago, quick to peg the name to his then-new mother-in-law—but he’s the only one game or stupid enough…
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WHO said Perth’s art scene was full of namby-pamby hipster fops? The back-room staff at Perth Institute of Contemporary Arts have muscled-up and romped home in this year’s Rottnest Channel Swim. “We did the Rotto swim to advocate the importance of art in a healthy community” The “PICAnauts”, including curator Leigh Robb and communication manager…
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EINSTEIN’S theory of relativity and South African apartheid come together in a joint PICA and WA art gallery exhibition, The Refusal of Time. Johannesburg artist William Kentridge’s father was an ardent opponent of the country’s officially racist divide and was one of a few white South Africans who offered legal representation to those suffering under…
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AUGUSTUS ROOKWOOD is one of the bad wizards in Harry Potter and rooks generally get a bad rap in literature. But this terrific home on Rookwood Street, Mt Lawley is more like a book you love to cuddle up with in bed. The gorgeous 1920s manse has been brought back to its former glory and…
