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QUIT SMOKING IN The Perth JUST 1 HOUR Call now 1300 953 881 Voiceo www.QuitSmokingPerth.com.au N 719 Saturday March 24, 2012 • Phone 9430 7727 • [email protected] • www.perthvoice.com Judges too soft on vandals:contacted him about the Ellesmere MP by DAVID BELL Reserve vandalism to get back in COURTS are letting the touch. public down by failing to gaol After the Voice’s story about vandals wrecking the four-month- serial vandals, says Mount old $5590 scrabble seat, Mr Kucera Lawley Liberal MP Michael received a couple of anonymous Sutherland. calls suggesting who might’ve “Unfortunately the courts have been behind it, but the sources let the police and the public down have since got spooked. with only two of the 141 people The fi rst time the vandals hit arrested during the fi rst two stages the popular sculpture in January of Operation Eraser being gaoled. they broke a couple of the letters. “There have been two occasions About three weeks ago someone recently where magistrates have attacked it again, pulling the given serious graffi ti vandals a broken tiles completely off and ‘slap on the wrist’. scattering them around the “This sends the wrong message neighbourhood. to those that are thinking of “There was a very strong getting involved in criminal suggestion made to me that it damage to property.” could be a fellow who got charged He’s really The former lawyer says one recently with a whole lot of graffi ti Dianella offender was already in the area, but I have no details,” on bail for wilful damage and Mr Kucera says. trespass on public property. “The couple of people that rang Attorney-general Christian me saying they had info regarding Creepy Porter has raised the possibility of it, they haven’t got back to me, introducing mandatory sentencing and I’d be delighted if they did • Mural artist ‘Creepy’ is brightening Perth’s walls. Photo by Matthew Dwyer for serial vandals if courts keep because I’d be more than happy to letting them go. pass it on confi dentially to police,” painting large-scale pieces around real or a dream. The mural is part In 2009 the Barnett government the former assistant commissioner by DAVID BELL town for a few years now. of an ongoing plan by the Perth doubled the maximum fi ne to says. His distinctive cartoonish city council to liven up laneways $24,000 and the gaol term to two He was chatting to Vincent LOCAL street artist Creepy is stubby people with spidery limbs with artwork and infrastructure. years, but Mr Sutherland says the mayor Alannah MacTiernan last working on a new mural down also adorn the Norfolk Basement, At-risk youth have also been courts are not following through. week and says he’d like to see an at the WA library car park wall. Murdoch uni, the Western Power invited to come along to art Meanwhile, Bob Kucera, his “adopt a park” program set up Just back from a solo exhibition building in Northbridge, and walls workshops he runs, and they’ll Labor rival for the Mount Lawley so locals can keep an eye on their in Berlin, Creepy is Kyle Hughes- in Barcelona, Berlin, Melbourne, contribute to part of the mural to seat is appealing to those who’d reserves. Odgers to his friends and has been Sydney and New York. be integrated with his larger work. The Voice dropped in on Creepy The decision to go with a Perth while he was putting the new artist will keep locals happy. There Find the Fake Ad & win a chance for a piece up on Tuesday. was a lot of discontent over the He says a lot of his work is $70,000 Grand Lane mural project feast for two Bills creeping up? inspired by folklore and he loves being awarded to Melbourne IF this were Greece, there’d be rioting over to incorporate different methods artists Bonsai and Twoone. It the cost of living increases being hoisted of pattern creation from cultures was defaced shortly after its SIENA’S on the masses. But if your bank balance is all round the world. installation last January, with a starting to read like Lucas Papademos’s This piece, Creepy tells us, is a long section scratched out. Leederville popularity ratings, get on the street delivering fi the Voice and earn some spare cash. We need gure in the midst of that semi- Creepy will be down there people in MT LAWLEY and NORTH PERTH so sleep state when you just drift off painting the mural until March See competitions page for details call Stephanie on 9430 7727. • North Perth area 10 or start to wake up, when you’re 26 if you want to stop by and say not sure if what you’re seeing is hello. Learn To Dance SALSA LATIN & Hot Salsa moves in progressive format BALLROOM Thursday 8 - 9pm Loftus DANCE Jive, Cha Cha, Tango, Waltz & more Mon 7.30 -8.30pm 8.30 -9.30pm Loftus Cost $10 Per Class Loftus Recreation Centre www.paddo.com.au 99 Loftus St Leederville Enquiries: 0403 810 793 Stirling the new WA’s Largest Renewable Energy & home for soccer? Sustainable Living Fair and a change of guard at the 2011 by STEPHEN POLLOCK local government elections saw it STIRLING is the new back away. Hobo-fi frontrunner in the race to be Gibney Reserve in Bayswater Sunday 1 April had also been mooted, but FW the new $25 million “home of chair Bob Kucera said negotiations by DAVID BELL football” in WA. there had stalled. “We’ve had WHILE Perth city council Football West—the state’s peak Join the celebration in the name of some architectural plans drawn investigates the best places to body for soccer—has identifi ed up, loosely based on Vasto.” host free wifi hotspots around sustainability. An extensive & fascinating Vasto Reserve in Balcatta as FW CEO Peter Hugg says it Perth, Austin in the US state “ticking all the boxes” for its new will present a business case to the of Texas may have a solution. range of exhibits along with a heap of state-of-the art HQ. WA government for funding. “Homeless people as The facility would include a children’s activities, roaming theatre “Every family needs a home wireless transmitters,” the 5000-seat stadium, three pitches, and this facility would help put New York Times reports. offices and an accommodation & musical entertainment for the family. WA soccer on the map,” he says. A marketing agency has block. It would serve as a training “Soccer in WA deserves a hired homeless people to and administrative base for Perth FREE seminars all day. professional base.” walk around carrying mobile Glory, which currently trains at Stirling council recreation hotspots, offering free internet McGillivray Oval, and a home fi manager Brett Spencer con rms to people attending the South Entry by gold coin donation ground for a local Football West talks are ongoing: “...officers by Southwest technology Oak Lawn, UWA State League team. are aware that a grant has been conference. They wear t-shirts FW is also considering other applied for by FW from the emblazoned with their name sites, including Inglewood Hackett Drive, Crawley Football Federation to assist with saying “Hi, I’m Clarence, a 4G United’s stadium, Frank Drago the feasibility of developing a Hotspot” with instructions on Reserve, Ashfi eld Reserve, UWA, sustainable proposal to establish how to log on. 9am-5pm Curtin and Murdoch University. the home of soccer in this state,” Perth lord mayor Lisa But the Voice understands he said. Scaffi di, who pioneered the the “greenfield” Vasto and a www.perthsunfair.com.au Mr Hugg says having two free-wifi -for-Perth-plan, cooperative Stirling council are Perth A-League teams remains a wasn’t keen on the hobo Enquiries: tipping the scales. fantasy. “I think that’s still a long Supported by: hotspot initiative. The Voice 0404 942 443 Negotiations between the way off,” he says. “We can start shot her an email with a council and FW have been talking about a second team when link to the article. “Only ongoing since late 2011, with FW Perth Glory matches are sold out in America, as they say!” presenting sketches. every week.” The capacity at Perth she replied. “As in, ‘not in FW had initially wanted to Oval—Glory’s homeground—is Perth’?” we asked. “Yes,” she base itself at Litis Stadium in 20,500. The average attendance confi rmed. Vincent but resistance from locals for 2010-11 was 8488. Pop, pop, pop-up shops UWA School of Music presents by STEPHEN POLLOCK AN increasing number of Juniper Chamber Perth entrepreneurs are Orchestra opening pop-up shops in a Violin virtuoso Paul Wright bid to avoid crippling rents. The three-month, heavily discounted leases offer Join the Juniper Chamber Orchestra as they premiere a new work by Mary businesses a chance to fi nd their Finsterer, one of Australia’s most original and internationally recognised feet in the crucial fi rst quarter of composers. This concert will be the Australian premiere of her composition their launch. Red, Green, Blue. Cultural retail hub 140 William Street expects to be Leading the ensemble of nationally recognised artists is Perth’s own Menuhin home to around six pop-up School, Guildhall and Juilliard-trained virtuoso violinist Paul Wright. shops by April, with All of the The beloved Trout Quintet by Schubert and the rarely heard Verkarte Nacht will Cbove Creative and Miss Brown also be performed.
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