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WEST PERTH’S ageing but tidy Murray Hotel has been bought by the state government to house around 30 homeless people. The purchase comes as the timeframe for completing the government’s flagship “Common Ground” long-term supported-living facility in East Perth has been pushed back another year to 2025 and other homeless facilities remain at high levels of…
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TWO HUNDRED flood risk hotspots have been identified around Vincent, with works underway to address the most urgent. Lynton Street in Mount Hawthorn was turned into a canoeable river in 2021, and nearby Menzies Park was a lake for a day. In recent year’s Vincent’s copped a heavy downpour of criticism from residents who feel…
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A WEE win in Vincent’s war on water was marked last weekend when residents gathered to celebrate a new floodwall at Beatty Park. It’s been a long campaign by residents to get a wall to prevent run-off from the park, starting shortly after homes on Emmerson Street were flooded in the great storm of 2010. …
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AUTHOR Shirley Eldridge was better placed than many to deal with revisiting past trauma, but still found reliving the events of a 1967 murder “horrific”. Eldridge’s background is in counselling psychology. She’s worked at Lifeline, trained counsellors, and run suicide prevention courses overseas before settling in Perth and turning to writing. But even decades later,…
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TWO sculptures by WA artist Addam have been unveiled in Hamer Park and Inglewood Oval as the capstone on the park’s $6.3 million redevelopment. Addam’s work melds sculpture and jewellery and this is her first public art commission. Addam was selected by Stirling council to team up with veteran public artist Rick Vermey as a…
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WITH warm weather seeing people flocking back to the beach, this week the archivists at Vincent Local History Centre continue the series on memories of summer by bringing us back to a time before the beach was a popular swimming spot. BEACH culture is synonymous with Perth, but this has not always been the case.…
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I wonder if Ragnar comes back from the dead?” asked my wife as we drove to Inglewood. She’s become hooked on Vikings over the festive break – binge-watching the first three seasons in as many days. I’ve done my bit to jump on the pagan bandwagon – trading in my Holden Astra for a longboat, eating…
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KIDS driving you nuts at the tail end of the school holidays? Sick of going to the beach and the hot weather? It might be time for a little edification and air con – step forward the WA Museum Boola Bardip. They’ve got some cracking summer exhibitions for a broad range of ages and interests…
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FANCY some luxury family living in Dianella? This four bedroom two bathroom property ticks a lot of boxes – from the top-of-the-line kitchen to the plantation shutters and built-in floating cabinetry, a lot of thought and money has been put into designing this home. It was built only 18 months ago and still has that…
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COME rain, hail or shine, you’ll find them sitting in a tub of ice every weekend at South Beach in Fremantle. Some might call them masochists, others just plain crazy, but they are part of the “Breath and Ice” group, formed two years ago by Fremantle local Florian Obst. The group start with a 30…
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