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Author: Your Herald
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IF you wander around Cathedral Square at a certain time of day, you might feel your time has come early as you are engulfed by billowing white clouds and ecclesiastical music. Don’t worry, you’re not ascending to heaven or at a Spinal Tap concert, it’s all part of an atmospheric and slightly mystical art installation…
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LET’S face it, strata levies are a real pain in the neck. So it’s nice this free-standing townhouse in Maylands doesn’t have any, allowing you to spend your money on more luxurious things like wine, shows and slap-up meals. With three bedrooms and two bathrooms, there’s plenty of space in this abode and you won’t…
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‘Too much corruption’ AFTER elections marred by stolen votes and forged signatures, a veteran Stirling councillor says it’s time to bin postal ballots and bring on in-person voting. Cr Elizabeth Re, serving since 2005, says “it has been recognised that ballots have gone missing, or people have been found guilty of taking them out of letterboxes”.…
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INGLEWOOD’S Julius Caesar Re has been awarded an OAM for his lifetime’s work popularising soccer in Australia. Mr Re is considered a “visionary” by the Football Hall of Fame WA for seeing a game with potential and helping professionalise the sport. involvement in soccer dates back to when Mr Re’s oldest brother Frank was one…
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A WRENCH has been thrown into Aldi’s expansion plans with Bayswater council voting against letting the supermarket set up in the Guildford Road industrial area. Aldi sought a change to the council’s planning scheme to allow a shop in the industrial zoned site at 508 Guildford Road, currently a Reece’s Hire (“New Aldi sparks fear…
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RESIDENTS living around Peninsula Farm in Maylands are worried it’ll turn into a party zone as it becomes more commercialised. The National Trust owns the site and for 10 years has mainly hosted a few annual community events like an Anzac Day sunset service, Christmas Carols and an Easter Family Day. Corporate The outdoor space has…
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WHILE the Winter Olympics will open to great fanfare in China this weekend, a group of local protestors were planning to rally outside East Perth’s Chinese consulate on Thursday to raise some uncomfortable questions for the communist superpower about its human rights record. A coalition of Uyghur, Hong Kong, Tibetan, Taiwanese and Chinese human rights…
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WA will get the rare opportunity to showcase its writing talent – and its patchy public health record – during an online writing festival today (Saturday February 5). WA author Michelle Johnston’s book Dustfall will be the focus of the local stage of LitFestBergen when it kicks off at 9pm. Published in 2018, the novel…
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GROWING concerns over crime has prompted Bayswater council to draw up a new crime prevention plan with high tech measures a big focus. New councillor Josh Eveson pushed for the new plan saying it was in response to “ongoing concerns from our community about crime and safety. “People deserve to feel safe in their homes…
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BAYSWATER council has decided against punishing a tree-pruning Maylands ratepayer by plonking a big three-metre sign on their front verge. Bayswater staff advised councillors to take a tough stance over what they called a “vandalised” public tree on the verge outside 1 Sussex Street, but the owners claimed a misunderstanding leading them to think they had…
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