Author: Your Herald
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CHARM, Perth by JENNY D’ANGER: Two blokes at the next table of this Murray Street, Perth eatery were lamenting over their teenage/early-20s kids. Messy, lazy, disrespectful, but happy for mum and dad to give them a handout. And how embarrassing when his oldest daughter turned up for a family restaurant meal in Banana in Pyjamas…
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FULL MOON THAI, Mount Lawley: Once in a blue moon, you stumble upon something rare and unique. Stepping into Full Moon Thai on Walcott Street is such an event. Once inside, you know that you’ve come to a place that’s unlike anything else you’ve ever seen, or ever will see, and where the space is…
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Sundowning Syndrome is an increasingly recognised state in which people with Alzheimers become agitated at sundown and prone to wandering. Maylands couple Arielle Gray and Tim Watts, and mate Chris Isaacs were looking at creating a play around “the call of the wild”, when they came across the syndrome. “We were fascinated by that natural…
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Britney Spears’ Red is the Colour of My Love ran through my head as I checked out this Collins Street, Yokine home. “Dark as the night, hot as the sun,” it goes. Which perfectly describes the deep glass splashback running around this kitchen. It’s a red so rich and dark it’s almost black. Turn on…
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City Farm has sacked its manager and seven staff have walked after being handed new contracts with heavily reduced hours. Cliff Morris, CEO of Men of the Trees—the organisation the farm answers to—says drastic action was needed because the East Perth site is haemorrhaging cash. But Michael Forte, axed after managing the farm for nearly…
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Valuable urban art at Perth City Farm is in danger of being lost says a local art group whose protests have—temporarily at least—halted the destruction of an 18-year-old mural. City Farm had planned to allow a visiting European artist to paint over the work, as it was looking tired. Lady Bananas from Artists Anonymous Collective…
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Human rights lawyer Julian Burnside is in Perth to propose an alternative to the major parties’ “cruel” refugee policies. “We seem troubled by people drowning at sea trying to reach Australia,” he told the Voice. “We seem less troubled by the idea that if we’re nasty enough we can deter them from leaving their country…
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A young activist has taken her own life a week before a marriage equality rally she’d helped organise. Equal Love WA co-convenor Amber Maxwell, 20, died Saturday August 24 at 5.44pm, shortly after attending a refugee rights rally. The transgender woman had been at the forefront of the local LGBTI rights campaign and was known…
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A 6WD amphibious vehicle will be used to fight mozzies plaguing Maylands foreshore. Bayswater city council will shell out $30,920 to buy and ship the all-terrain vehicle from Queensland. The model has been used successfully for nearly 20 years in Queensland to reach otherwise inaccessible breeding areas. The council allocated $166,970 in its 2013/14 budget…
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Installing full-scale models of trams in the Hay Street Mall has paid off for Perth city council, with emails flooding in. The PCC opposes the Barnett government’s plan to run trams through the mall and so does 93 per cent of the public, according to the emails. The PCC reckons light rail should go down…
