Author: Your Herald
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IT must be Perth’s most controversial toilet with locals packing the public gallery to debate a new loo going in at the small but overpopular Hobart Street reserve. One-hundred-and-twenty-seven people (many from the North Perth precinct group) opposed the public toilet, worried about who it might attract. Other public lavs in parks around town are…
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They’re so PC—but in a good way A GROUP of Perth volunteers is refurbishing thrown-out computers and sending them to children in developing countries. Since 2004, the group has sent more than 2000 refurbished PCs to orphanages, schools and charity organisations in Tanzania, Burma, Kenya, Cameroon and Zambia. It diverts thousands more from landfill by…
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HOWZAT RON WILLIS of Mt Lawley takes issue with Wisden on the Ashes for, amongst other things, claiming to be ‘the authoritative story of cricket’s greatest rivalry’. IN 2009 Wisden Cricketers’ Almanack shot its albatross—the history of the Ashes urn. Wisden on the Ashes, 644 pages edited by Steven Lynch, took the carcase. One hoped…
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CINNAMON CLUB, Leederville by DAVID BELL: This Leederville eatery is chronically underpopulated. The food is good but the dishes are typically a few bucks above what you’d pay at the wildly successful Two Fat Indians chain. The service is also a little patchy. Despite the place being near-empty we did have to wave wildly to…
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PRINCESS ANNE, a corgi riding side-saddle behind her, rears her horse; the hounds are off, and the hunt is on. Acclaimed Queensland artist Melissa Egan’s art is part realism/part satire and sending up the Queen’s daughter was meant to have been just one of a number of royal-themed pieces. “[But] after one princess I thought,…
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NOT too many people get the chance to buy the home they grew up in, but the vendor of this palatial home in Flinders Street, Mt Hawthorn did just that. Not that her girlhood self would have recognised the place, after the single-storey ‘60s home was transformed into a spacious, two-storey modern abode, sitting proudly…
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CAMPING out in cars in Vincent’s streets has been banned after backpackers ruined it for everyone with boozy, messy sleepouts. More backpackers have been camping out on streets now that FIFOs have started filling up local hostels. Mayor Alannah MacTiernan was unsure about the ban, saying she didn’t want the genuinely homeless to be targeted…
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FOR years Perth has been the only major city in Australia without a jazz festival (OK, Darwin too). But after a few local jazzy sorts like Graham Wood from Ellington Jazz Club and saxophonist Jamie Oehlers got together, Perth will see its inaugural International Jazz Fest kick off later this month. Mr Oehlers says, “there’s…
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BIG BROTHER is watching you in Beaufort Street. Stirling city council has added another four CCTV cameras to the Beaufort-Walcott Street intersection, taking the total number of cameras in the area to 13. The cameras are clustered around the eastern side of the crossroads, stretching up to the NAB bank. The new hi-tech fixed cameras…
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A COUNCIL-sponsored community bus is on the cards to deal with a “problematic and grossly inadequate” public transport network. Vincent city council staff say there’s a “poor connecting transport network in the city, in particular the east-west connections”. The situation wasn’t helped when Transperth nixed the 401 route saying it was underused (the council says…
