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Author: Your Herald
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I READ your front page story “Kings Park push for cat laws” (Voice, January 28, 2023) with great interest. I record frogs on the FrogID App for Australian Museum so see first hand the carnage. Cats are killing small birds, frogs, all sorts of lizards and wildlife. Every day throughout Australia there is 7 million…
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SOMETIMES I start to roll my eyes when I read the pretentious and often embellished backstory to a new restaurant or food product. Like the beer that was brewed by celibate monks in a cave in Syria for 12 years using yeast extracted from the Turin shroud. Thankfully The Woodfired Baker in Maylands has a…
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AN unlikely friendship between 101-year-old retired cray fisherman Bill Newbold and 16-year-old Coogee artist Finn Brophy has been the catalyst for a touching artwork. They were paired up as part of The Centenarian Portrait Project by Teenagers, which sees young, budding artists chat to centenarians and create a portrait of them to help dispel negative…
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Fremantle “reality teacher” Shree Prem Vishrant has extended his popular Meetings in Truth and is now holding satsang twice per week in South Fremantle. The free public meetings at The Meeting Place on South Terrace on Wednesday and Thursday nights start at 7.20pm every week, with entry by donation. Vishrant is WA’s only enlightened…
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IF you love river views, this swanky East Perth apartment could be just the ticket. Situated on the 21st floor of Reflections West complex, you have glorious views of Langley Park, Swan River and beyond from the massive entertainer’s 23sqm balcony. Sun-down drinks and canapés with friends and family would be a regular occurrence…
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THE cost of a ‘no’ vote in the upcoming referendum on an Indigenous Voice to Parliament would be the rolling back of decades of reconcilation, says advocate Thomas Mayor. Mr Mayor has been on a national “Voice, Truth and Treaty” tour since 2017 arrived in Fremantle this week to speak at today’s (Saturday January 28)…
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BAYSWATER council is set to tap into the troubled carbon offset market to help fund a groundbreaking $2.4 million urban forest at Riverside Gardens. At Tuesday’s ordinary meeting the council voted to negotiate a partnership agreement with Greening Australia, who would transform the four-hectare site through Western Australia’s first Nature in Cities project. The council…
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BAYSWATER will retain its four wards, but drop the number of councillors from 11 to 8 under mandated reforms. At Tuesday’s ordinary meeting the council voted to keep the wards but adjust their boundaries to accommodate future growth, shifting the boundary between North and Central wards to Tonkin Highway in 2023; and moving part of…
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PEOPLE power has helped Maylands parents convince Bayswater council to beef up its Safe Routes to School report. A petition of 243 signatures was presented to Tuesday’s meeting calling for the council to produce a comprehensive report that let the community know what safety measures were to be implemented and when. In mid-2022 the council…
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BAYSWATER mayor Filomena Piffaretti has paid tribute to former Bayswater councillor Graham Pittaway, who died on January 14, aged 81. Mr Pittaway was elected to council in 2000 and was awarded a Medal of the Order of Australia for “service to the community through local government and a range of health business and educational organisations”…
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