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DISCONTENT over the Perth Festival taking fossil fuel funding is growing this year, with activists gathering outside events mirroring long-running protests at previous Fringe Festivals. Artists and activists from Extinction Rebellion WA and Drummers for Climate Action put on their own performance outside Perth Concert Hall on March 5 ahead of the Perth Festival’s Become Ocean…
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IN this week’s Speakers Corner, Free the Hounds president MEL HARRISON says dogs continue to race on tracks hardened by sweltering weather. THE recent WA heatwave has been tough on everyone, but many West Australians would be unaware of the impact the weather has had on the racetracks that our greyhounds run on at Cannington…
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AFTER 126 years, the oldest art society in WA – The West Australian Society of Arts – is still going strong and will hold its annual exhibition in Fremantle this month. Featuring oil, pastel, watercolour and acrylic paintings from about 150 WASA members, the exhibition includes a diverse mix of amateur and professional artists. The…
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I’m very jealous of the man cave in this glitzy Claisebrook Village townhouse. Technically it’s a guest/spare bedroom on the third floor, but it’s clearly been requisitioned for rocking out with guitars, amps, a keyboard, turntable and records. And while you’re head banging and playing the blistering solo to Stairway to Heaven, you can gaze…
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TWO eye-pleasing patches of Mount Hawthorn may soon have their aesthetic preserved as “character areas”, with a workshop to discuss the details coming up on March 9. Kalgoorlie Street’s block of homes between Ashby and Berryman Streets – along with all of Wilberforce Street’s residences – would be covered by the character areas if residents…
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SENIORS living in Mertome Village are feeling “very hurt, unwanted, and disrespected” over a massive $250,000 rates bill they believe they were never supposed to pay. Bayswater council built Mertome on Winifred Road in 1972 and it was likely the first council-provided aged care service in WA. For most of its lifespan the village was…
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FORMER Bayswater mayor Dan Bull says the council is trashing its “Garden City” motto by allowing too many healthy verge trees to be cut down. Bayswater used to make it near impossible for residents to remove a tree from the council-controlled verges; sometimes even getting a thorough pruning was tricky. At the October 2021 council…
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PERTH council house was lit up with the depiction of a sunflower this week in support of Ukraine as the former Soviet state faces Russian invasion. The sunflower is Ukraine’s national flower and it became a prominent symbol of peace in 1996: When Ukraine completed nuclear disarmament, sunflowers were planted in fields atop dismantled nuclear…
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EAST PERTH residents have had a long-running wish granted with more lighting coming to their suburb, kicking off with a blinged out pedestrian bridge over Adelaide Terrace. More light’s been a main request from locals for years, and in February 2021 East Perth Community Group treasurer Lesley Warren told councillors the bridge is meant to…
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PLANS for East Perth’s Common Ground homeless support accommodation have been approved despite some lingering concerns from nearby locals. On March 1 the joint state government/Perth council Development Assessment Panel approved the 112-unit tower, which is based on a 1990s New York model of providing high-support housing to chronically homeless people. There are some conditions…
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