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Month: March 2015
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LISA BAKER was booted out of parliament for the first time this week. The Maylands Labor MP was ejected from the legislative assembly for interrupting police minister Liza Harvey during an answer about the number of full time staff in the women’s policy office. Ms Baker claims Ms Harvey quoted incorrect figures regarding the number…
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A BODGY press release from Perth city council claims it’s spending the most on its cyclists. In the statement, lord mayor Lisa Scaffidi boasts of a $3.4 million spend on cycle infrastructure across the city. “That is the highest per capita spend for any capital city in the nation, and more than double that of…
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ARANMORE primary school is greener than a Prius-driving Incredible Hulk. The Leederville school has just been accredited as waste- and water-wise and for the past few years has been establishing a sustainable vegetable garden. The garden now boasts a worm farm, apples and olive trees and herbs (that’s erbs for American readers). Garden co-ordinator Lynn…
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IT’S a rare thing to hear in East Perth, but resident Terry Maller reckons the situation’s vastly improved down at the trouble-ridden Wellington Square. The former Perth city council candidate says he’s at the park every morning, and the number of people sleeping around the toilet block has dwindled to near-nothing over summer. Police patrols…
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PROMINENT US atheist Matt Dillahunty is coming to Perth with a warning for Australia’s atheists and secularists: don’t get complacent. The magician and TV host of the Atheist Experience was raised in a southern Baptist home and spent 25 years as a fundamentalist. He says the complacency of American atheists at the end of the…
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Mindless THERE is no doubt that staging a presumably very loud musical event in the micro space of a side lane in Oxford Street is rather absurd and mindless. Particularly that, just across the street, a section of the huge carpark could have been made available, thereby giving more room to the fans and not…
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NEW NORCIA BAKERY, Mount Hawthorn by JENNY D’ANGER: IT was hard to picture austere, dark-robed Benedictine monks sitting down to dainty pastries and gurgy cakes as I gazed in awe at the sweet selection at the New Norcia Bakery. But apparently the sourdough bread, with its wonderfully chewy crust, is something the religious pioneers at…
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THERE were some unhappy faces among North Perth’s traders as word spread they may never be getting light rail up Fitzgerald Street. The Liberal government went to the last election on the platform of building MAX (Metro Area Express) light rail from Perth CBD to Mirrabooka, across to QEII hospital and to Victoria Park. Now…
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DAVID HELFGOTT has visited Mt Lawley Senior High School to open a new $2 million music practise room named in his honour. It was a slightly nostalgic trip for the pianist, who’d briefly attended the school in year 11 in 1963. “He told me what mark he got for woodwork,” laughs principal Milton Butcher. “So…
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