Author: Your Herald
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PASTY-FACED computer enthusiasts will leave their command centres—their bedrooms—to attend Perth’s first ever hacker conference this weekend. WAHCKon will revolve around a series of talks from fellow hackers and IT security professionals. Founder Peter Hannay say his conference focuses on preventive security and won’t be a hacker’s guide to the universe. “It will be hacking…
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Lighten up WOW! I have read some negative letters over the years but Naomi Clark’s criticism of councillor John Carey being regularly seen in the Voice (Voice Mail, April 27, 2013) is very strange. I always thought it was the editor who decided what is published in the paper, not councillors. As a long-term resident…
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THE ROSEMOUNT, North Perth by STEPHEN POLLOCK: Sunday lunch at The Rosemount is the dining equivalent of Status Quo—a three-chord onslaught of burgers, nachos, pizzas and steaks. The kind of menu that makes your brain purr and your heart scamper into the corner, pleading for a vat of krill oil. With ‘er indoors busy watching…
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ARTHUR MILLER’S Willy Loman, in Death of a Salesman, is an unlikeable person. He verbally abuses and bullies his wife and sons and is a liar and a braggart in his efforts to sell himself as a big man with a big future. But he is utterly human and his emotional pain is palpable, leaving…
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IN another lifetime I worked around the corner from this home in Crawford Road, Inglewood. A mix of lovely older homes, leafy streets and plenty of parks, it was an area I quite fancied moving in to. Or maybe I’d fancied the close proximity to a couple of great pubs where the afternoon shift would…
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THE Barnett government is distancing itself from a $4 million pre-election promise made by its unsuccessful Maylands candidate, Sylvan Albert. In a March 1 media release, the high-profile candidate and Bayswater councillor had stated the “Liberals [will] commit $1 million a year over four years to eradicate mosquitoes in Maylands”. Cr Albert failed in his…
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LEGAL action is brewing between Vincent city council and local artist Matt McVeigh, with a letter sent to council alleging breach of contract. The council originally voted to pay Mr McVeigh $30,000 for a work of public art. He was advanced $5000. Vincent mayor Alannah MacTiernan said McVeigh later told the council he couldn’t create…
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THE lacrosse under-18s national championships are on at humble Halliday Park this week. A neighbourhood snoop called the Voice to say the local club had been out painting the field markings last Sunday. Trouble is, Bayswater city council mows the park behind the Bayswater hotel twice a week and next day the painstaking linework ended…
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TWO men allegedly sexually assaulted a woman at Forrest Park in Mt Lawley last Sunday morning but police are refusing to provide details. Early in the week the Voice received calls from two locals concerned about the incident. They’d heard the woman had been walking her dog when three men attacked her, but that turned…
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BAYSWATER deputy mayor Barry McKenna has hinted his council is prepared to go to the supreme court to stop a concrete batching plant being built in the city (Voice, April 20, 2013). The unelected but powerful state administrative tribunal is on the verge of approving a concrete batching plant, over the objections of the elected…
