Author: Your Herald
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MAYLANDS activist Alex Bainbridge will contest WA’s senate re-election as a Socialist Alliance candidate. After the lost-votes snafu the high court is now fermenting a final decision but a fresh poll is widely regarded as about as certain as Tony Abbott’s victory was in September. Mr Bainbridge says the election must be held soon so…
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JAMES PEART will have another tilt at the Vincent council by-election, after narrowly missing out in October’s eight-way race. A south ward vacancy was created when Cr John Carey was elected mayor. The nearest two contenders were former Labor adviser Katrina Montaut with 907 votes and Mr Peart with 828. Mr Peart, who’d coordinated volunteers…
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KATRINA MONTAUT has expressed doubt about running for council again, despite being first runner-up in October. Ms Montaut, who worked for ex-Perth MP John Hyde, says she’s been approached to run again but isn’t keen as she isn’t part of the inner-circle on council: “I don’t know how easy it would be to effect much…
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OLIVER TWIST and the orphans sang Food Glorious Food in the musical version of Dickens’ classic novel. (Oliver Twist and the Orphans? Good name for a boy band). Veggie Mama, in Mt Lawley, is to vegetarians what steak and pudding must have been to the hungry mites in the London poor house: Heaven. Since turning…
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MY alfresco dinner guests refused to believe the opera coming over the fence was live, the sound was so glorious, and the volume off the richter scale. “It really is the opera singer from a couple of houses away,” I insisted as Penny Shaw continued to belt out an aria for the birthday boy next…
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IT’S not often we ordinary folk get the chance to look down on the royal family, but from this 15th floor eyrie you’ll have a birds’s eye view when the Queen, or her heir, next stay at Government House. Or you could check out the comings and goings at the Duxton Hotel—where Prince Harry allegedly…
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A NEIGHBOUR came close to tears when she stood to oppose a new development mooted for the corner of Shakespeare and Hobart Streets. Vincent councillors knocked back the 18-unit project on Tuesday night but the decision will be appealed to the powerful but unelected state administrative tribunal. The Mount Hawthorn project attracted the ire of…
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IF you find it hard to hail a cab at night over the festive season, you can thank the federal immigration department. It turns out that a crackdown on international students working illegally has had a significant impact on the number of people available to drive taxis late at night. Veteran cabbie Stephen Satchell says…
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A NORTH PERTH woman who courageously shared her experience of post-natal depression and anxiety on YouTube has been congratulated by the national mental health commission. Judi Barrett-Lennard bore all in a video for the commission’s 2013 report on mental health and suicide prevention. “I gave birth to my son in 1984 and became overwhelmed and…
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A NEW heritage lobby group “Save the Horseshoe” has sprung up to oppose plans to demolish some of its balustrading in order to allow pedestrians to move more freely between it and a new plaza and the station. Local artist Andrew Nicholls started the Facebook group, which has prompted some confusion since the 110-year-old bridge…
