Author: Your Herald
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Reece Harley will run for Perth city council. Soon turning 27, if elected he’ll be the city’s second-youngest ever councillor (Chas Hopkins first won at 26 and later went on to become lord mayor). With recent data showing almost half the city’s residents are aged 20–34, Mr Harley says the PCC needs youth in its…
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A divided development assessment panel has approved a six-storey project on Brewer Street, tossing aside the usual three-storey plus loft height limit for the area. The elected members on the DAP—Vincent councillors Dudley Maier and Josh Topelberg—voted against the plan but the two state-appointed members Megan Bartle and Clayton Higham gave the 37-unit Danny Psaros…
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Bayswater’s historical societies are irked their city is being portrayed as heritage-unfriendly by the Mount Lawley Society and Stirling city council. Under the proposed Barnett council amalgamations, Mt Lawley will become part of a new Bayswater-Bassendean super council. The MLS wants Mt Lawley to stay in Stirling, because it has heritage protection areas, and has…
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Drunk, loud, loitering women leading “idle lives” in early 1900s Perth is the topic of a new book by ECU lecturer Leigh Straw. Dr Straw became interested in researching the era while investigating a 1929 murder. Poring over newspapers of the day, she was struck by the number of mugshots of women staring back at…
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SINBAD’S on Beaufort Street has closed under a cloud of complaints. Stirling city councillor David Lagan says he’d been inundated with calls from residents about noise and illegal parking at the Inglewood kebab shop. “They were playing music really loud—much louder than the nearby Civic Hotel—and there were cars strewn all over the street and…
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A batty idea HOW will a $30,000 buggy kill bugs? (Voice, August 31, 2013). I suppose by gaining access to mozzie breeding grounds abutting the Swan River and spraying one of DDT’s siblings. Is this part of the City of Bayswater’s environmental or ecocide strategy? I recently read in the Voice’s sibling newspaper (the Fremantle…
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The elephant in the room was in fact a pelican, according to Stormboy director John Sheedy. The play that starts September 21 at the Heath Ledger theatre marks the 50th anniversary of one of Australia’s most beloved stories, and is, says Sheedy, a fitting tribute to the book and author Colin Thiele. “There’s a reason…
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Sutherland puts South Africa trip ahead of Stay in Stirling rally The fur is flying over Mt Lawley Liberal MP Michael Sutherland missing a Stay in Stirling rally last week that attracted 400 locals opposed to being merged with Bayswater. The MP had flown to South Africa for a conference the day before the rally…
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When his old church refused to let him become a member because he was gay, Graham Douglas-Meyer started up his own. Based out of the North Perth lesser hall, Open Arms Fellowship is in its early days with just a few members, but Pastor Douglas-Meyer is hoping his flock will grow. “I had that sense…
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‘Gross act of vandalism’ A proud Bayswater resident hijacked the Stay in Stirling rally last week. Former city councillor Sally Palmer was unhappy her city was being painted by rally organisers as somewhere undesirable for heritage suburbs like Mt Lawley. Around 400 attended the Astor Theatre rally to protest the WA government’s plan to…
