Author: Your Herald
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LIBERAL MP Eleni Evangel is taking on bureaucrats inside the WA government to get a 40kmh zone installed outside North Perth primary school. The public transport authority will only slow traffic on roads that directly abut a school. Because a small park separates busy View Street from the school’s southern frontage it is technically ineligible.…
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TWO men in their seventies have been charged following a police blitz on street prostitution in Highgate. The crackdown has led to 13 arrests, including those of a 77- and a 72-year-old man. The ages of men charged ranged from 20 to 77, from as far-flung as Clarkson, Karrinyup and Hillarys. The dragnet included two…
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A $13 million unit block planned for Aberdeen Street has attracted the ire of the local Business Improvement Group Northbridge and the nearby The Deen (formerly the Aberdeen). BIG N and the Deen objected to the 68-unit block worried it’ll kill licensed venues nearby when new residents inevitably complain about noise and behaviour. Their submission…
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Voice cartoonist Jason Chatfield is still in the States following his hosting gig at the Reuben Awards, the Oscars of the cartooning world. He and his comic wife Sophie Miller (we’re not being rude, she’s a funny woman) are enjoying a belated “Hawaiimoon” so she probably didn’t appreciate our early morning SMS to Jason, who…
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WORLD Environment Day was established by the United Nations General Assembly in 1972 to mark the opening of the Stockholm Conference on the Human Environment Since then, it has been held every year on June 5 and is celebrated around the world. The United Nations Environment Program (UNEP) sets a different theme and host country…
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OXFORD HOTEL, Leederville by JENNY D’ANGER: Somewhat like that disturbing TV commercial for beer with the tongue that goes out at night in search of a yearned-for flavour, my tongue is obsessed by memories of burnt caramel and fig icecream. I keep my mouth tightly closed at night fearing it will come loose and scrabble…
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RINA FRANZ blends romanticism and scientific gloom in her latest exhibition Absent…landscape. The Perth painter was enjoying a six-month residency in Basel, when she became obsessed with the plight of the shrinking Swiss glaciers. “Only two glaciers in that region have not been affected by the global rise in temperature,” she says. “Scientists estimate that…
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KILL a tree in Perth and you could be out of pocket a quarter-of-a-million dollars. Perth city council has unanimously approved a new policy that dramatically increases the stakes for vandals and lazy developers. Previously, only a “minimal monetary value” was requested to fund a replacement. That’s led to mature, healthy trees being replaced by…
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VINCENT ratepayers are looking at a 4.14 per cent rates increase this year—well above Australia’s 2.5 per cent inflation rate. The budget was previewed Tuesday night with some councillors concerned about where the cash is going. Cr John Carey was scathing of the amount put aside for bike infrastructure, saying the couple of hundred thousand…
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THE Barnett government’s decision to remove the Grand Palace restaurant from the Perth Esplanade has cost WA taxpayers $6.3 million—so far. Figures obtained by the WA Labor opposition last week revealed the WA planning commission handed a $5m initial payment to the restaurant lessee in February 2012. A final settlement figure for buying out the…
