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AN austere budget’s been passed by Vincent council with a steep 7.6 per cent rate rise and the end of the beloved free hour in council carparks. The council’s trying to catch up on having frozen rates during the covid era, wants to pay off old debt, plans to put aside money for underground power,…
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A LONG-dormant corner of Maylands will be turned into a $40million aged care facility, and the iconic heritage-listed servo out front will be preserved and turned into an activity room. Built in 1931 and closed nearly 10 years ago, Williamson’s Motor House on Guildford Road is heritage listed for its rare Mediterranean influences and Moorish…
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CANDIDATES and voters using sham leases in council elections will be clamped down on as part of major new local government reforms intended to clean up messy and chaotic councils. Local government minister John Carey this week announced the final package of the long-awaited reforms to the creaky 25-year-old Local Government Act 1995. The reforms…
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THE State Treasury building will be transformed into an open artists and writer’s studio with a dual residency by artist Tessa MacKay and screenwriter and director Roderick MacKay. For two weeks they’ll be taking over treasury’s “The Mark” venue, which overlooks Stirling Gardens in the Perth CBD, telling stories and chatting with the public while…
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THE kids loved the new Wellington Square playground as soon as it opened and now the adult experts have confirmed: Yes, it is fun, with the playground winning two awards at the Australian Institute of Landscape Architecture WA awards. The intergenerational Noongar-influenced “Koolangka Koolangka Waabiny” (Children’s Children Playground) won the landscape award for playspaces and…
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THE last time I was at the Tradewinds Hotel for a Christmas party someone tried to kick down the cubicle door while I was inside. Thankfully that was many moons ago and you can’t cater for the odd bad apple, but I was still a bit apprehensive returning there for lunch on Friday, so I…
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A NOSTALGIC peek at life during the school holidays in the Bassendean burbs is one of the highlights of this year’s Revelation Perth International Film Festival. Captured on 16mm film, Bassendream whisks us back to the massive backyards and endless summers of our youth, capturing the last day of the school holidays in Perth in…
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THE Voice always loves a first. So we were excited about this award-winning four bedroom 2.5 bathroom home being listed for sale for the first time. Nestled between Beaufort Street and Hyde Park, it’s a bit of an executive, inner-city Tardis. We normally don’t start reviews in the back garden, but this is a…
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Top of the class ADC and the Warburton Group’s vision for the Perth Girls School site have been approved by DevelopmentWA.Girls School plan approved ‘The new Perth Girls School project design will celebrate the site’s rich and important Aborigi-nal and European cultural history’ DEVELOPMENT plans for the major mixed residential, cultural, and entertainment superhub at…
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LABOR’S state planning minister Rita Saffioti will intervene in Perth council’s decision to reject a Northbridge homeless drop-in centre’s relocation to James Street. At its May meeting Perth council rejected homeless service provider Ruah’s plan to move the Shenton Street centre a 270m walk away, so it could build a seven-storey women and children’s refuge…
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