Author: Your Herald
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VINCENT mayor Alannah MacTiernan is fighting a high-powered push to ban right-hand turns from Beaufort Street into Walcott Street. She says the idea—being promoted by Mt Lawley Liberal MP Michael Sutherland—will affect Vincent residents while having little effect on those in neighouring Stirling. Mr Sutherland’s electorate ends at Walcott Street. Ms MacTiernan says a red-light…
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A EUROPEAN oil and gas conference in Scotland is relevant to Perth, lord mayor Lisa Scaffidi says. Perth city council will soon vote on whether to spend up to $15,000 flying her there and back as part of a WA business delegation. The conference theme is, Offshore Europe the next 50 years. The Barnett government…
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JAMIE’S Italian restaurant won’t say how many of its high quality linen napkins are being stolen. A source who’d dropped by the insanely popular eaterie for a feed Saturday night said they’d seen “several” of Oliver’s logo-stamped towellettes go missing. The source estimated “hundreds” must get stolen every week. We called the restaurant Monday but…
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NAOMI CLARK of Beaufort Street, Highgate—Vincent mayor Alannah MacTiernan would like to hear from you because she reckons you’re bogus. In a letter published in the Voice last week Ms Clark was critical of Cr John Carey, mocking his support for publishing kerb crawlers’ details as “an obvious ploy to move to the right and…
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RACHMANISM is alive and well in Perth, according to a local man who personally knew the world’s worst slum landlord. Peter Rachman was a Notting Hill landlord in the 1950s and 1960s, infamous for exploiting tenants with derelict dwellings and high rents. The word “Rachmanism” is now in the Oxford dictionary to describe, “the exploitation…
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ALANNAH MacTIERNAN has apologised to artist Matt McVeigh for not advising him earlier of Vincent city council’s decision to cancel his commission. “The council stands by its decision,” Ms MacTiernan wrote in a message posted to the council’s website. “But firstly, I apologise to Matthew that he was not advised of the council’s decision (which…
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IT’S been a long road and a year-and-a-half of paperwork but the future of the Vastese Bakery in North Perth is safe. The Alma Road bakery has been in the Saraceni family since 1961, baking for cafes, restaurants and boutique retailers, along with selling locals their daily bread. But in 2011 someone complained about the…
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AN Australia Day fireworks without any fireworks has been raised as a possibility by a Department of Fire and Emergency Services staffer. In the Australia Day post-mortem conducted by Perth city council a brief note on page five states, “there were… significant bush fires in the state which required DFES attention”. “It was raised at…
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FOR the first time Jane’s Walk is coming to Maylands. The international event takes place May 4, celebrating the legacy of urban activist Jane Jacobs who died in 2006. Jacobs pioneered a grassroots movement to protect Greenwich Village’s old neighbourhoods from so-called “slum clearance” where old blocks were to be razed for upscale apartment blocks.…
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JUST over a million bucks will be spent sprucing up the first stage of Leederville’s town centre. With little done in the precinct since the formation of the Vincent city council, mayor Alannah MacTiernan says, “it is clearly Leederville village’s turn to get an upgrade in the public spaces in the town centre, it being…
