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THE death of Perth Zoo’s Tricia the elephant this month prompted a lot of reflection about the ethics of keeping intelligent animals in zoos, but it wasn’t long ago that her fellow elephants were paraded around local parks for our amusement. After Tricia’s death Vincent’s Local History Centre historians dug out this image from the…
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COLIN MENDELSOHN was the founding chair of the charity Australian Tobacco Harm Reduction Association. In this week’s Speaker’s Corner he argues that a blanket ban on nicotine in vapes is creating a black market that’s out of control. ATHRA is a big advocate of using vapes to help people quit smoking, and while it received…
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THE Beaufort Street roadworks seem to be going on forever. It took me three prog rock albums, a steering wheel drum solo and endless diversions through the leafy burbs to finally reach Finlay and Sons in Inglewood. Situated on the corner of Dundas Road and Beaufort St, it’s a stylish cafe with a pavement alfresco…
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SNOO’s debut single might be the most un-rock and roll song ever – it’s about rescue cats. As singer Lizzy Harskamp explains, they are pretty much a band of animal lovers, reflected in the film clip for their single After Dark, where they poorly audition for the musical Cats and get into all kinds of…
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Do you fancy living in the iconic Roschanmaure building in Mt Lawley, just a street back from Hyde Park? This heritage listed property was built in the 1950s and has loads of gorgeous period features and yesteryear charm. Featuring two bedrooms and one bathroom, it’s part of only 12 in the building and just one…
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But ADC keeps Lyric parking concessions A CINEMA historian has decried new designs for the development that’ll sit atop the remains of Maylands’ Lyric Theatre, with more of its heritage fabric to be hacked away. The Lyric Theatre was built at 43-53 Eight Avenue in 1923 and is listed as a “category 2” site on…
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A FRUGAL budget’s been passed by Perth council with a modest rate increase “believed to be the lowest announced to date of all metropolitan local governments” according to the council’s finance staff. Residential and office ratepayers will see their bill rise an average of 1 per cent, and retail, hotel and commercial rates will go up…
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ONE East Perth resident speaking up about pedestrian safety has led to a huge $2.8 million upgrade of the Trinity shared path in East Perth. These days more people are using the path that borders the river side of Trinity College and state Perth MP John Carey was contacted by an East Perth resident who’d…
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FOR many years Lindsay Calyun stayed quiet about what happened to him as a member of the Stolen Generation, taken from his family in East Perth in 1965 and sent to the Roelands Mission 170km away. He says for a lot of his life the subject just wasn’t something to talk about, and he had to…
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A GLOBAL search is underway for hundreds of missing artworks created by Noongar kids who were members of the Stolen Generation. Back in the 1940s at the Carrolup Native Settlement teachers Noel and Lily White used art to build a connection with the Noongar children who’d been forcibly taken from their families. Many would go…
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