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Looking for Maylands’ lost 18

June 26, 2015

NO official records can be found in national archives of 18 soldiers whose names are on the Maylands cenotaph.

Historian Bob Corby has been helping the Maylands Historical Society identify the 110 names on the cenotaph, a symbolic “empty tomb” monument, and has so far tracked down 68 from official records.

But he’s been unable to find any documentation in the Australian War Memorial or National Archives that sheds light on 18.

“That is not to say records do not exist, but more that there are so many possible combinations in searches,” he says.

Mr Corby notes work can be tricky because of oddities in the records and the changing borders of suburbs. For example, he’s uncertain about a “J Hardey” whom he believes could be Joseph Hardey, a pearler who’d lived in Mt Lawley, “an area which may earlier have been described as Maylands”.

There are also many duplicate names on the list so Mr Corby’s trying to pin them down to make sure the records match the Maylands soldier on the memorial.

He’s hoping the public might have information on the following soldiers: Ainsworth F, Arthur I, Banford FL, Bruce A, Clayton W, Davies FH, Griffin AW, Harding G, Harrindale R, Hill A,

Jeffery J, Leadon W, Manson W, Ross C, Scryver H, Secombe FW, Theraway W, Webb W.

If any names ring a bell give the Voice a call on 9430 7727 and we’ll put you onto Mr Corby.

by DAVID BELL
Students mentally stressed

June 26, 2015

ANXIETY, not cyber-bullying, is the most common mental health issue affecting high school students, says psychologist Iva Filipovska.

Since 2012, Ms Filipovska has been the permanent psychologist at Mount Lawley SHS and has worked in the sector for six years.

“Cyber-bullying tends to be very prevalent in middle school, when kids first become exposed to social media,” she says.

“But I find the most common mental health issue affecting senior pupils is anxiety caused by exam and study pressure, and family and relationship issues.

“But it’s not just the older pupils that are affected and I see quite a lot of pupils from year seven—which the school has recently started accepting—suffering from study stress and anxiety.”

In a bid to provide extra support she has created a website with sections on cyber safety, meditation and relationships.

“I thought it would be useful to aggregate all the information on a single site which students and parents could reference,” she says.

“Students have found it very useful.”

Ms Filipovska says it’s too simplistic to blame homework.

“I think the workload is in general less than in Europe and anxiety is a complex issue that can be triggered by a number of things,” she notes.

“Each case, and person, is different and has to be assessed on its own merits.”

by STEPHEN POLLOCK
Inertia is toast

June 26, 2015

THE current Perth city council might’ve brought us Opera in the Park, but lord mayoral candidate Mike O’Hanlon brought us Ghostface Killah in an alleyway.

Last year the 32-year-old entrepreneur—who owns toasted sandwich bar Toastface Grillah—hosted the Wu-Tang Clan rapper for a secret impromptu gig on the back of his ute in Grand Lane, outside the cafe.

Mr O’Hanlon was also a founder of the William Street Bird, started his own company O’Hanlon Electric Motorsport, and is behind the entertainment app Hipflask which lets users know what events are happening around them.

Embedded in the local entrepreneur tech scene (he runs Gramercy Studios software above Toastface Grillah), Mr O’Hanlon would like to see the sector given a boost by the council.

As part of his election pitch he’s flagged dipping into the council’s whopper $100 million in reserves, to invest 10 per cent in high-risk local ventures, and provide loans to businesses that qualify for federal research and development tax incentives.

Mr O’Hanlon says with the federal government cutting research and support “we don’t have to do much, financially speaking, to become to most attractive place in Australia for R&D projects”. The benefit to the city could be huge with more jobs and better consumer confidence.

“When people have jobs and they are happy, they go out,” he says.

“They visit places, they buy lunch and dinner, they purchases houses, they go to shows, they make investments.

• Entrepreneur Mike O’Hanlon is the first candidate out of the blocks to challenge unbackable favourite Lisa Scaffidi for the lord mayoralty of Perth. Photos by Matthew Dwyer.

“New businesses are at the heart of the economy. The iron ore boom is over and the city of Perth is in exactly the right position to encourage and support the new opportunities that will rent some of the empty real estate that we’re seeing all over the place.

“Go for a bike ride through West Perth if you want to see what I mean.”

He also wants more transparency and will encourage elected members to speak publicly on issues they care about.

“First order of business will be to remove the gag from councillors’ mouths that prevents them from talking to the people about what they think we should be doing,” he says. “That way, when I bully them into submission regarding my dodgy mates giving me free trips to watch a chicken race in Bali, they can call up the newspaper and say ‘oi, this bloke is a crook!”

Mr O’Hanlon says the environment and social responsibility also loom large.

“A lot of people would look at the problem of homelessness and think ‘shit, this is too hard, I’m going to just dehumanise them and speak about other things’. If we can turn a generation of homeless people into a generation of people who work with homeless people, we’ll have done something fantastic for humanity.

“This is a big issue and we need a holistic approach, but I’ll stake my name on my promise to address it properly.”

He cites an interview by Andrew Denton as a big reason he decided to run: “Xanana Gusmao raised the idea that at some point you may have to swallow your humility and stand up for the things you believe in. I have thought about these words many times in the years since I heard them.”

by DAVID BELL
Letters 26.6.15

June 26, 2015

Spending saves
MY latest supermarket receipt states in a bold print I saved $3.90. Illogical reasoning arrives at this amount. It assumes I would have bought certain items at the original recommended retail price, before various discounts. Not necessarily so. I spent what I spent. “Saved” nothing. Here the story ends.
Belle Watson
Fitzgerald St, Perth

‘appy now
I AM happy to help save the City of Bayswater $5000 (Voice, June 20, 2015). The app it wants is already available and free (snapsendsolve.com). Which is lucky because I suspect $5000 is much less than what the final cost would actually be to develop a decent app.
James Peart
Brown St, East Perth

Business belted
YOUR story on the Vincent rate hike (Perth Voice, June 6, 2015) did not give the full story. Without trying to sound like a caller at a bingo night, I think it is important to present a fuller picture.
Overall, Vincent rates will go up by 6.5 per cent which is the largest increase since 1999. However, most of us will only experience a modest 2.8 per cent increase. This is because the city is introducing two significant changes next year which will see about 2100 ratepayers on the minimum rate pay between 2.8 per cent and 28 per cent more, and will see about 1600 businesses pay 8.5 per cent more than this year.
The argument put forward for the significant increase in minimum rates is that Vincent has not kept up with other local governments. There may be some merit in this argument.
Two arguments have been put forward for increasing commercial rates. The first is the rates collected from businesses should reflect the total gross rental value of those businesses. The claim is businesses represent about 26 per cent of the gross rental values so they should pay about that proportion of rates.
However, an analysis of the draft budget shows that businesses represent 26.7 per cent of gross rental values but are asked to pay 28 per cent of the rates. This results in a $370,000 “subsidy” by businesses.
If the proportionality principle was correctly applied most residents would pay about 4.8 per cent more than last year, and businesses would only pay about 3.2 per cent more than last year.
The second argument for increasing business rates is businesses are paying a smaller proportion of the rates after the 2014 revaluation of all properties in the city. The implication being they were paying their fair share a couple of years ago but have now become bludgers. Perhaps businesses were paying too much in the past and the independent revaluation has corrected the anomaly.
Rather than accepting the independent valuations and accepting there will be winners and losers every three years, the city is arbitrarily setting a benchmark without any supporting information to justify what businesses should pay.
So the take-home message from all of this could be that even though overall rates have gone up by 6.5 per cent most of us will have a modest rate increase because businesses have been slugged more than their fair share.
Dudley Maier
Highgate

Cornish credit
GREAT article by Stephen Pollock regarding the “report it “ app being promoted by the tree-loving councillor Chris Cornish (Voice, June 20, 2015).
The “plant tree here” category within the app would certainly be useful to inform the city about what, if it was looking and listening, it should already know.
Chatfield’s cartoon on page 4 unfortunately identifies Cornish as the problem, when in fact, he is a significant part of the solution: it is elected representatives Albert and (I love trees, but) Sabatino who are the problem as they undermine—by voting to kill trees—the city’s “Garden City—Quality Lifestyle “ motto.
Greg Smith
Rose Ave, Bayswater

How?
IF God made them male and female how do we end up with transgender?
Raymond Conder
Central Ave, Inglewood
The Ed says: Sigh.

Rule Britannia
IT is interesting to note John Simpson Kirkpatrick of “Simpson and his donkey” fame, who saved hundreds of diggers at ANZAC Cove, Gallipoli and was killed on May 19, 1915 aged 22 years was one of 40 per cent in those Australian forces who were born in England.
They would have sworn and signed an oath of allegiance to Australia and to the King of England, his heirs and successors like their fellows.
I wonder how many of those lived another 60 years to irreverently lose their Australian citizenship under prime minister Gough Whitlam?
A home to honour those heroes? I think not!
Gordon Westwood
Coode St, Maylands
You’ll be wonton more

June 26, 2015

IT was one of those miserable winter days, where black clouds hung over the city like a bull’s scrotum.

In need of a gastronomic cuddle, my buddy recommended we head to Viet Hoa, a restaurant he’d frequented for 20 years after first visiting with his mother in the days of grunge and AltaVista.

“The décor’s exactly the same,” he said, as we walked past cracks and sallow wallpaper.

The large eating area was chock-a-block and a queue spilled out the door onto William Street, so I assumed it was one of those places where the décor was irrelevant.

• Viet Hoa is popular—and with good reason. The food is ‘faultless’ and the prices unbeatable.

The no-nonsense laminated menu had a huge array of dishes—everything from sweet and sour chicken to Scotch fillet with lemongrass—and included satay, beef, poultry, seafood and noodles.

The type of restaurant where you go cross-eyed and end up ordering a prime number.

My friend said Viet Hoa was renowned for its soups, so for mains we ordered wonton ($12.50), roast duck egg noodle soup ($13) and combination laksa ($12.50).

Service was super-fast, almost instantaneous: perhaps the waiter had created a wormhole with the nib of his cheap pen.

We tucked into beautiful pieces of golden fried squid ($8.50)—non-greasy and light—and beef skewers in wine ($8.10).

The skewers had a pungent, smoky aroma and I initially thought my jocks were on fire, but was relieved to find all the smoke had been siphoned into the delicious cubes of beef.

I enjoyed the subtle addition of wine and the dry, beefy kick in my mouth.

The last entree was the most interesting: huge, boneless fried chicken wings stuffed with minced chook, spring onions, bean shoots and coriander ($9).

Imagine perhaps a demented love child of King Arthur and Colonel Sanders.

They were strangely addictive and the batter was light and crispy (no translucent patches on my serviette).

It wasn’t long before a huge bowl of fragrant loveliness arrived. My wonton soup was deeper than the River Styx, crammed not with lost, wailing souls but with beautifully steamed parcels of pork, spring onion, bean shoots and fired shallots.

The broth was light, delicious and teeming with subtle flavours and spices.

It’s rare that I cannot finish a dish but this was so large I waved my tartan Y-fronts in surrender.

The food at Viet Hoa is faultless, the portions huge and all at a price to make a Scotsman smile.

Just watch out for those dangling black clouds.

by STEPHEN POLLOCK

Viet Hoa
349 William St, Northbridge
http://www.viethoa.com.au
Micro power

June 26, 2015

NORTH PERTH artist duo Snapcat has been chosen for the prestigious Perth Institute of Contemporary Arts Salon 2015.

Comprising Anna Dunnill (26) and Renae Coles (28), over the past few weeks the pair has been amusing and baffling Perth with their “Tiny Parades,” micro marches about little issues like celebrating obsolete technology or mourning all the Perth people heading to Melbourne.

PICA’s Salon Vernissage is the annual bigwig soiree for its elite art1000 and art5000 donors (those who’ve given $1000 or $5000 to the gallery). It’s a rare commercial event for the quirky gallery with first dibs going to donors on opening night, and it’s a big hairy deal for an artist to be commissioned to create a work for it.

“It’s definitely a new opportunity for us,” Coles says. “Every single artist on that list is incredible, it’s such a great line up.”

Continuing on their Tiny Parades theme, the pair created colourful wall murals in the shapes of banners from famous marches throughout history, harking back to suffragette marches, human rights protests and celebratory parades.

The idea for tiny marches came about when, “we had an idea to make one huge giant parade to take over the city and realised it wasn’t in our grasp at this point in our careers nor in our budget.
“So we laughed at the idea of creating a tiny parade.

“It was ridiculous but we really liked the idea of two people taking on the world in a very serious way.”

As part of the research they met with members from the Refugee Rights Action Network, frequently seen protesting on streets and campuses around town in not huge numbers.

They were worried the activists might think they were taking the mickey, but the actual protestors appreciated the project.

“One of the guys from RRAN said, ‘I’ve been to many tiny parades, because often in Perth only 20 people show up, there’s not enough people who care.

“He’d had a very real experience of what we’re intentionally doing.”

Other work at Salon includes Polish artist Gosia Wlodarczak’s digital works, Iranian Hossein Valamanesh’s curious graph/geography mashups, Sydney artist Kynan Tan’s 3D printed sculptures, and Perth Voice favourite Abdul Abdullah’s self portraits with a monkey.

If you’re one of the hallowed art1000 donors the opening gig is July 4, otherwise you can see the arts with the rest of us from July 5 to August 16 at PICA in the Perth cultural centre.

by DAVID BELLY
Brand new in ’ella

June 26, 2015

THERE are three main features that set this modern Dianella house apart from the rest.

It has a home theatre room, air conditioners can be controlled with a phone app and the main bedroom’s ensuite is like no other of its kind I have ever seen.

Walk into the ensuite and find his-and-hers (or his-and-his or her-and-her, it gets so complicated) basins, dark grey porcelain tiles creeping up from the floor to ceiling and a “walk-through” shower made for sharing.

Two shower heads are placed side by side behind the vanity unit.

No need to worry about space because the owners will have a walk-in wardrobe and a private little outdoor retreat off the main bedroom.

Built only a month or so ago, the three-bedroom house is obviously brand new with the smell paint and fresh carpet still lingering.

It is a clever house with north-facing windows in the open living and dining areas to take full advantage of the sun.

The microwave and dishwasher have been integrated into the design so the kitchen looks complete. My favourite parts are the stone-top benches and the built-in wine rack.

Kudos to the designer because there are storage spaces at almost every turn of the head. Walk in to the house from the double-lockup garage and there is a little coat room with shoe racks.

The study nook is in a wide part of a hallway to the bedrooms from the living area.

Easily set up a barbecue in the alfresco dining area because there is a gas point and space for a bar fridge and grill.

by EMMIE DOWLING

6a Croydon St, Dianella
From $715,000
Mervyn Missell | 0404 889 325
Acton Mount Lawley | 9272 2488
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Focus on North Perth

June 26, 2015

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Golden Ravioli
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The place for coughee and cake

June 18, 2015

A LEBANESE cafe in Maylands may have to scrub off its $2000 mural because of laws that ban the promotion of smoking.

The WA health department is investigating Rotana on Eighth Avenue—which has a sheesha lounge at its rear—to determine if it needs to remove a courtyard mural portraying clouds of smoke billowing from a woman’s nose and mouth.

The tobacco control branch visited last month after receiving a complaint.

Rotana acting manager Matthew Peters says the venue’s already been ordered to remove posters—featuring the same image—as well as signage displaying the silhouette of a hookah.

“It would be a bit ridiculous if the mural had to come down, it’s not advertising or glorifying smoking, it’s a work of art,” he claims.

• Rotana acting manager Matthew Peters beside the controversial cafe mural. Photo by Matthew Dwyer

“There’s no actual smoking implements in the mural at all.”

Jerome Davenport was asked to paint the mural after Rotana staff saw him painting the Faces of Beaufort Street, at Barlee Street carpark, in Mt Lawley. The 25-year-old non-smoking artist doesn’t understand the fuss.

“It’s not an advert—it’s art. It would be unfortunate if it had to come down.”

Davenport’s urban art features in several international magazines, including London Street-art Design Magazine and Raw Artists New York.

Rotana, located in the famous Old Bakery building, opened last year.

“The owners spent a lot of money on the re-fit, and we are trying to build up the business,” Mr Peters says.

“So to be hit with this in our first year is disappointing.”

by STEPHEN POLLOCK