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TREE-starved Bayswater council has abandoned aspirations to reach 20 per cent tree canopy cover by 2025 with a majority of councillors deciding it’s unrealistic. Back in 2014 the council voted to set the aspirational target, as it had a paltry 13.2 per cent canopy cover and was one of the least green council areas in…
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MENTAL and physical health is at risk if Bayswater continues to lose trees to infill development according to the expert report by UWA’s Australian Urban Design Research Centre. The report used public health data to estimate that about 9.2 per cent of adults in Bayswater are at “high” or “very high” psychological distress. The report…
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Mum’s desperate plea over stolen pendant A HIGHGATE woman is pleading for the return of a stolen necklace that captured the handprint of her late daughter. The woman, who asked not to be named, found her car broken into on the morning of June 22. Her black Guess wallet was stolen, and inside was a…
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AFTER seeing our story of Bunnings’ plan to move into the Pickle District, Andrew Main informs us this actually marks the hardware company’s return to their home patch. The Bunning brothers came to WA in 1886 and purchased their first saw mill, and “Bunning Bros” became incorporated in 1907. The next generation of Bunnings sons…
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ANZAC Cottage has had its share of controversies and the tales of trouble surrounding this historic Mount Hawthorn house will be told this July 10. A community coming together to build a house for a wounded war vet sounds like a cause everyone could get behind. But progress was still dogged in the early days…
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HANA JESTRIBEK is the co-founder of Little Hawk Cafe. Despite taking a chance with a hipster cafe in a semi-industrial area of Beaconsfield, it proved a roaring success – and then Covid came along. With WA in the midst of its pandemic, she says the impact on the hospitality sector – and its workers…
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THE Beaufort Street Community Centre recently handed over 12 mums and bubs quilts made by the resident Stashbusters quilting group. The quilts, made from fabric donated by community members, will be used by single new mums living in a supported environment. The Stashbusters meets fortnightly at the BSCC, which is a non-profit centre offering a…
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WHEN are you too old to wear a hoodie and when is it uncouth to wear one? Those were the philosophical questions I pondered when my wife gave me the ‘look’ as we drove to the swanky Petition for lunch. Apparently a hoodie is too casual for this upmarket CBD restaurant, but I didn’t…
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I WONDER if Goldman Sachs employees felt like the insect protagonist in Cicada when they were recently ordered to return to the office full-time after working from home during the pandemic. Cicada, a picture book by Perth oscar-winner Shaun Tan, follows a depressed insect who works in a grey cubicle in a grey soulless corporate…
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AN apartment with a balcony in Maylands for $150,000? No, we’ve not lost our marbles, this one bedroom one bathroom apartment has been priced to sell. The Voice was expecting the inside to be like Lilliput in Gulliver’s Travels, but there’s actually a decent amount of space in the open plan living/dining/kitchen area. It’s nice…
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