Author: Your Herald
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THE barbed wire fence strewn with pig skins and heads stretches on for 2km against a bleak New Zealand landscape, a confronting and disturbing sight for passers-by—and for viewers of ‘Meat Fence’, an exhibition opening this week at the Perth Centre of Photography. Photographer Justin Spiers describes the meat fence as a bizarre collection of…
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SOARING liquidambar peering over a high corrugated iron wall is one of the many attractions of this cute apartment. The glorious trees are dressed in their summer green at the moment but it won’t be long before they don blazing orange, yellow and red in a glorious prelude to their winter nakedness. “A sense of…
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A MAN who fell and sliced his arm on blade-like bike racks on Beaufort Street has lodged a compensation claim against Vincent city council. The suit has prompted the council to remove the 21 racks, which resemble boomerangs embedded in the footpath. Installed in 2012 at a cost of $15,000 the racks prompted “numerous complaints”…
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THE disappearance of children from art due to tightening laws and regulations is the subject of a new photomedia exhibition by local artist Connie Petrillo at the Perth Centre for Photography. Public concern over the subject of children in art—especially photography featuring nudity or suggestive posing—has been at fever pitch since Bill Henson’s contentious 2008…
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“IT’S not a merger, it’s a takeover” was the unhappy sentiment around Vincent HQ this week. Until last week it was assumed that come July 2015 both Perth and Vincent would be dismissed and neutral commissioners take over until an election in October 2015. Instead, WA local government minister Tony Simpson has announced he’d prefer…
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A ONE-WARD approach could spell the end of the ordinary citizen running for council. If Perth and Vincent merge it could lead to just having one city-wide ward where elections are a free-for-all. Mayor John Carey says having only one ward would require spending $40,000 to $50,000 to letterbox every house in the newly merged…
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LOCALS are already so contorted and steamed up about traffic and parking issues related to the popular Bikram Yoga in North Perth that Vincent council has refused to allow an expansion next door. Council planning staff supported the application but CEO John Giorgi stepped in to advise the council it should refuse it. He says…
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PRIDE fairday will move back to its old home of Hyde Park this weekend. The fairday’s been around for 20 years as a more laidback event in the Pride calendar, but after 11 years at Russell Square it’s moving back to Hyde Park. Pride co-president Daniel Smith says it moved partly because the fairday no…
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SUNDAY’S Pride fairday will hold a minute’s silence in solidarity for LGBT people living in Russia. Amidst the Sochi Olympics—which has become synonymous with shoddy hotel rooms, suspicious yellow tapwater, dangerous infrastructure, false structures, painted tarpaulins depicting buildings, thousands of stray dogs and armed security reminiscent of Iron Curtain Russia—the city’s mayor has proudly claimed…
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THE prostitution name and shame list will stay, with a divided Vincent council voting to keep it as it appears to be working. Last year the council started publishing the names of men convicted of soliciting street prostitutes following a flood of complaints from locals around Stirling Street. Names stay on the Vincent website for…
