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Month: August 2023
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STIRLING councillor Bianca Sandri’s early resignation has been confirmed with the Electoral Commission of WA announcing her Inglewood ward seat is up for grabs at the October 2023 election. We speculated Cr Sandri would likely step down when she took up her new role as planning director at Bayswater council, but didn’t hear back from…
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AS I walked along Royal Street in East Perth, I spotted a large group of police officers up ahead. I thought it must be a serious incident with so many boys in blue, until I got closer and noticed they were standing outside Domino’s waiting for their lunch. It seems in 2023, pizzas have replaced…
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THAT Past Lives is thought-provoking is probably best summed up by the hours it took me to come to terms with its ending. Being a romantic at heart I always want the happy ending, so it was a jolt when Past Lives took another direction. It took some deep thinking before deciding director Celine Song…
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SITTING alone in a huge cinema to see A Good Person, I was worried it was a dud as there was no-one else at the 4pm session. But writer, producer and director Zac Braff has bought together Florence Pugh and Morgan Freeman in a beautiful, emotional film about addiction, forgiveness and redemption. You can’t go…
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ON March 6, 2010 Renee Pettitt-Schipp wrote a searing account of the previous day’s activities on Christmas Island, where she was working as a teacher. “Yesterday we went to the memorial service for the people involved in the boat tragedy in December,” she wrote. Fifty asylum seekers had lost their lives when the boat known…
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IF you’re driving around York, you might see a bloke quietly sitting in the middle of a field with a 1970s reel-to-reel tape recorder. It’s not Mick Molloy filming an Australian version of Mission Impossible, but local musician Simon Charles, who likes to include the sounds of nature in his music. An in-demand composer and…
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SEVEN-YEAR-OLD Duke Storer is the highest solo fundraiser in this year’s HBF Run for a Reason – raising more than $10,000 for Cystic Fibrosis WA . After a three-year covid break, this year’s Run for a Reason attracted 33,100 participants who raised more than $1.2 million for Australian charities. Duke’s mum Rebecca says her son…
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THIS Mount Lawley home is reminiscent of a scene from the TV series Mad Men. Maybe it’s the 1960s-style furniture and paintings, the textured ceiling, the wood panels in the kitchen, or the archway leading to the lounge. Everywhere you look there seems to be a nod to the Swinging Sixties and you wouldn’t be…
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PUBLIC art advocate Helen Curtis has called on Stirling council not to halt its ‘percent for art’ provision that requires developers to contribute to public artworks. Stirling council’s policy came into effect in January 2023. It applies to big developments worth more than $2 million and requires developers set aside 1 per cent of the…
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THE City of Vincent is offering a helping hand for local pubs and restaurants wanting to go smoke-free. Vincent launched its Fresh Air – You’re Welcome: the Smoke-Free Town Centres project in November 2022 as an initiative of its Public Health Plan. As part of the project, parts of Mt Hawthorn, North Perth, Leederville, William…
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