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PLANNING minister Rita Saffioti has overruled Perth council to allow Ruah to move its drop-in centre in Northbridge. The centre is on Shenton Street opposite Russell Square but Ruah wants to build a seven-storey centre for women and children escaping domestic violence. To free up the site, the drop-in centre will now move 270 metres…
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A PROPOSAL to switch back to in-person elections at Stirling council has been killed off. Not a single councillor would back colleague Elizabeth Re’s motion to consider ending their 20-year all-postal voting experiment. Cr Re had argued that after 20 years postal voting hadn’t lived up to the promise of increasing voter turnout, and research…
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A PROPOSED adult shop hoping to win Perth city council’s approval is promising “a beautiful, clean and luxurious space” with shop fronts displaying “elegant and tasteful clothing with no adult toys”. The owner isn’t named in the application, but the business is registered under “Gape Pty Ltd” and they want to open up “Pink Rabbit…
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TWO shisha lounges wanting to operate along Beaufort Street have been rejected by Vincent council under its crackdown on smoking in town centres. One of the pair, Petra Lounge at 624 Beaufort Street Mount Lawley, opened in August 2021 without authorisation from Vincent council to operate a shisha bar or build a smoking patio out…
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THIS week’s history corner from the City of Vincent Local History Centre looks at the past lives of the North Perth Town Hall, from its early days as the region’s bureaucratic hub, to its bawdy nights as an RSL venue, and its time as a hub for the Jewish community during World War II. IF…
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THE consulate general of India is seeking to rename a road near Kings Park to honour an Indian private who died serving with the ANZACs in the Great War. Nain Singh Sailani was a Hindu Gurkha from Shimla in northern India. He came to Australia in 1895 aged 22 and worked as a builder in Geraldton…
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IN this week’s Speaker’s Corner, greyhound welfare advocate Melissa Harrison from Free the Hounds tells us the Covid-era has seen a surge of betting that’s brought a huge spike in the greyhound racing industry’s turnover, and now the largest e-petition ever signed by WA residents has been lodged to stop greyhound racing. THE largest e-petition…
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IMAGINE a fifth dimension, between Nandos and KFC, as tasty as the Milky Way and timeless as roast chicken – you’ve just entered the Oporto Zone. Yes, Oporto does seem to exist in the twilight zone between other fast food joints with its flame grilled Portuguese-style chicken, but for me its vastly superior to the…
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THE concept of ‘home’ became all-encompassing during covid. People trying to get back home, people missing their spiritual home – whether that be the church, pub or gym – people losing their job and home, people unable to work to afford a home… So even though the play Homeward Bound is ostensibly about an astronaut…
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PERTH’S Theresa Bates was so disillusioned with the slow diagnosis of her mother’s dementia and the poor follow-up support, she decided to take the bull by the horns and do a three year degree in dementia care. Ms Bates says she was totally in the dark about what to expect and how to prepare for…
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