The Perth Voice East

Michael Donna Sutherland Faragher The Perth Your State Member Member for East Mt Lawley for Mountt Lawley MetropolitanMetropolita Region Christine Dymock 0424 875 180 Peta Cron 0449 177 951 WESTERN AUSTRALIA 9371 2000 raywhitemtlawley.com.au VoiceNo 738 Saturday August 4, 2012 • Phone 9430 7727 • [email protected] • www.perthvoice.com • EAST Authorised by B Morton, 640 Murray St, West Perth 6005. Award Winning Property Management Bid to stop school growth Ms Hamilton claims it one block of each other will cause the level of public consultation: secure a $3 million federal grant. by STEPHEN POLLOCK will increase traffic and make massive congetion [sic] on the roads “Such a signifi cant decision for an At a special council meeting held surrounding streets unsafe for and potential risk to those children urban community should and does late last year, councillors narrowly A BAYSWATER resident has fi started an online petition to stop children walking to school. who walk or ride to school,” Annette deserve a far more sign cant [sic] voted (5/3) for an expansion. She wants residents to lobby Martin wrote. level of public consultation. Shame The school agreed to provide the expansion of St Columba’s WA local government minister John “St Columbas doesn’t have much on both the city and school for more parking, including six bays Primary School. Castrilli into reversing the decision. play space to support doubling keeping this quiet.” on Almondbury Street, 17 on Milne Tina Hamilton’s petition The petition, on www.change.org, their numbers and will this result The council-approved Street and 35 on-site. Principal Greg criticises Bayswater city council for has garnered 42 signatures since in claiming play space from the next expansion—which defied staff Martin says the school spent $12,000 approving a doubling in students being posted two weeks ago. door state primary school oval?” advice to reject—means the Roberts on an independent report to address from 240 to 490. “Two primary schools within Lee Lincoln was concerned about Street school can double-stream and tra c issues. • Photographer Danny King uses “black humour” to skewer Aboriginal stereotypes in a new exhibition, Look Closer, on till September 2 at the Perth Centre for Photography. See the full story on Voice Arts, page 6 Stephanie needs deliverers to get round to get round Stephanie needs deliverers and she pays cash. with the Voice Yokine Give her a calll on 9430 7727. Yokine area 12 New loo Find the Fake Ad & win a chance for at last a feast for two by STEPHEN POLLOCK MANY a politician has been accused of talking crap, but Vincent mayor Alannah MacTiernan will broach the See competitions for details issue of a new toilet with residents at a public forum next week. Cross-legged residents have been pushing for a public loo at Engineers show can-do nous Auckland/Hobart Street Reserve for some time. by DAVID BELL “We’ve done the modelling and it’s going to stand up, yep! We’re using tuna cans and the whole The council is proposing PERTH’S engineering community will come idea is to use the cans’ weight. It’s self-supporting so to install a unisex toilet and together this weekend to build sculptures from we’re not using any glue to stick the cans together so improved parking in and around donated canned food. it’s built on its own foundation.” the North Perth reserve. He admits he’s a bit of a fi sh out of water when it Funds have been allocated in The inaugural Canstruction aims to gather canned the budget for the works. goods for Foodbank WA. North Perth electrical comes to cans and mortar building. “I’m actually an electrical engineer... so for me The forum, chaired by Ms engineer Jaya Wijono says his team has been hard MacTiernan, will be held August at work designing a big “thumbs up” sculpture, to be involved with this project it’s outside my technical expertise!” 11 at 2.30pm at the Auckland/ running the calculations to make sure the thing Hobart Street Reserve. will actually stand up: “We’ve actually modelled You can get along and watch the 12-hour building ff Feedback will be included in the design to get it ready for the construction. session when it kicks o tomorrow, Sunday August ff 5 at 7am at the convention and exhibition centre. the sta report when the item What we’re designing is a thumbs up structure and goes before council later this fi The sculptures will stick around for viewing until basically it means that it’s thumbs up to the ght year. • Bob the Builder is a canny fellow. against hunger. 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Mr Clifford says helps him Available Now Available “They get the ball and take it up and “empathise” with people from tell players what to do.” all walks of life. The year 7 Newman College student “I started off doing the hard yards in construction, getting (favourite subject: “physical education”, up at 4am, and driving two hours to work,” he says. least favourite: “maths”) says it took “Gradually I worked my way up until I was overseeing Pig Ears him by surprise when he won selection large-scale environmental lining projects in the mining Bag of 50 after three days of gruelling practice. Bag of 10 sector.” “Oh yeah, I was shocked. At the end The 30-year old moved back to Mt Lawley in 2010, Now Now of the tryouts they said all the names of abandoning the “disorientating” FIFO life-style. 50 the people who got in. I went to mum He now works at the WA attorney-general’s department $20 $87 and dad and went ‘I made the team!’” in an auditing/research role and studies politics, economics Dad David says his son has been and journalism at ECU Mount Lawley on his day off . playing for six years: “It’s incessant! His campaign will focus on the soaring cost of living, Every day of the school holidays since creaking public transport and the rich-poor divide. he’s been six,” he says. “I talk to a lot of young people who can’t aff ord to go fi Luke rst got into basketball when to university because the cost of living is so high,” he says. his dad picked up some tickets for a few “Many of them end-up ditching tertiary education and Wildcats games. “He hated noise and getting a job they don’t want instead. fi crowds and had both ngers in his ears “Young people should be able to make a choice, without all game,” Mr Simonette chuckles. a fi nancial cloud hanging over their head.” “He couldn’t wait to get out. Mt Lawley—a marginal seat held by Liberal MP Michael fi “Second week he had one nger out, Sutherland with 52.2 per cent of the two-party preferred fi fi CanidaeC id other nger rmly implanted in his ear. vote— is home to a diverse mix of voters, including students, fi All Natural “Third week he’s got both ngers retirees and white-collar workers. Hills Science Diet Pet Foods out and he’s starting to clap. The Greens secured 14.2 per cent of the vote at the 2008 2kg Dog Food “By the fourth week he’s yelling out election and Mr Cliff ord is hoping to match or better it. Now Available fi Conditions apply ‘defence!’ and by the fth week he’s He says his mining background is not at odds with yelling at the refs! Greens’ policy, which advocates raising the Gillard All items available while stocks last “We bought him a ball for Christmas.

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