Author: Your Herald
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A FORMER sub-contractor for Stirling city council has been gaoled for 15 months for bribing a council employee. In November a jury found Kim Laurence Walter, 56, guilty of providing a council contractor a $43,450 bobcat to use on his hobby farm. The court found the bobcat was a “sweetener” in return for Walter’s company…
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RON D’RAINE’S “giraffe kiss” captured hearts worldwide when it featured on the front page of the West Australian 19 years ago, and people still clamour to buy the photograph that was taken at Perth Zoo. But at Copenhagen zoo they feed their giraffes to lions, in front of primary school children, in the name of…
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BLOCKS of flats could be banned in low density parts of Mt Hawthorn, Leederville and North Perth under a plan being investigated by Vincent council. The WA government’s push for more density in the inner city suburbs has led to locals fronting the council, unhappy with whoppers planned for next door. Cr Josh Topelberg points…
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ANGOVE STREET’S history has been evoked in a new mural by Perth artist George Domahidy. Building owner Hank Ekamper—who contributed to the costs with Vincent council—says he wanted something that touched on the trams that used to run down the street. “It’s beautiful, we’re very happy with it,” Mr Ekamper says. It’s the second mural…
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Is it all about Alannah? WITH little more than three months having elapsed since the federal election, the federal member for Perth Alannah MacTiernan must already be feeling irrelevant, twiddling her thumbs on the opposition benches in Canberra, that she has to attack our national anthem—on Australia Day of all days—to get some media attention?…
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“JACK SPRAT could eat no fat, his wife could eat no lean…” I know how Mrs Sprat feels, ordering Circa’s Venetian fried custard for dessert I doubt there was much lean in it. But finding its lime sauce too sharp for my weakling taste buds I did a swap and thoroughly enjoyed the yoghurt panna…
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“OUR youth love luxury. They have bad manners, contempt for authority, they show disrespect for their elders and love chatter in place of exercise. They contradict their parents…and tyrannise their teachers.” Opinion is out on whether this was a lament by Socrates or Plato, but it is safe to say the oft-heard groan “kids of…
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ADULT kids still living at home with mum and dad has reached such epic proportions in the US and Canada that Crowded Nest Syndrome Day was proclaimed in 2012. Kathleen Shaputis, founder of the day and author of The Crowded Nest; Surviving the Return of Adult Children jokes you know things are crowded when: •…
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SCITECH’S new toddlerfest hopes to get the little ’uns interested in science with activities for kids zero to five. Rather than toddlers having to get their heads around E=MC2, Scitech’s aiming to get kids engaged in science through a more sensory experience. There’ll be playdough maths so kids can experiment with shapes, farm animals to…
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FEDERAL Labor MP Alannah MacTiernan has condemned Perth lord mayor Lisa Scaffidi for dismissing the concerns of heritage supporters (Voice, February 1, 2014). At last week’s Perth city council meeting Ms Scaffidi told people fighting to save the Michelides tobacco factory that if they wanted a say on the building’s future they should buy it.…
