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THERE are some interesting cafes at the quieter end of Oxford Street in Leederville. Three Sisters Vietnamese and Pixel Cafe spring to mind, and this week I stumbled upon Dear Green Cafe, which serves Asian-style brunch dishes. The cafe is diagonally opposite the old Midway taxi rank, which is now caked in graffiti and overgrown…
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DON’T let the pandemic put you off calling triple zero if you think you are having a stroke, says the Stroke Foundation’s Erin Godecke. After a stroke, 1.9 million brain cells die each minute, but people with symptoms aren’t calling 000 because they are worried about catching covid at hospital or putting unnecessary pressure on…
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THIS Northbridge apartment is perfect for someone who wants to be in the thick of the action. Situated on James Street, you are in the heart of the city with all the cafes, pubs and clubs literally on your doorstep. But don’t worry, this two bedroom one bathroom apartment is on the fourth floor, so…
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THE Friends of Coolbinia Bushland are gearing up for another Djilba of restoring remnant bush, and are inviting folk along to get to know their rare urban woodland on Bradford Street. The group’s now marked a year tackling the exotic weeds that had been crowding out the native vegetation, having revived a dormant Friends group that…
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A HUGE request for a $25 million ‘contribution’ to the WACA pool project has landed on Perth council’s door. It comes as the state government tries to get the current council to make good on its predecessors’ tentative agreement. Back in September 2020, just weeks before the current line-up was elected, the council was being…
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AFTER years of disputes, frustrations and delays around Vincent council’s heritage and character area retention scheme, there’s finally some renovations coming to speed things up. The policy was intended to let people nominate their neighbourhood as a heritage area or character retention area, to ensure future development fitted the existing character. Owners of at least 40…
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THE streamlined rules follow a fierce neighbourhood dispute around a patch of Mount Hawthorn being declared a character retention area. March’s council meeting was peppered with comments from those for and against. Those in favour wanted to keep the area’s interwar houses, those against said they shouldn’t be prevented from developing their properties by a minority…
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MAYLANDS’ heavily congested railway crossing at Caledonian Avenue will be closed by the state government, but locals fear pedestrians and cyclists will face such lengthy detours they’ll drive instead. In 2017 Labor promised to close the crossing and upgrade surrounding crossings to ease traffic flow, as drivers were routinely waiting more than 10 minutes to cross.…
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AS local government elections draw near Perth council is scrambling to patch a number of “high risk” weaknesses in its vetting processes that could lead to election fraud. Many of the risks identified by a recent audit relate to the troubled roll of property owners and occupiers; people who claim a vote because they own…
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ONGOING problems with vetting voters has been worsened by a lack of help from the WA Electoral Commission, a Perth council-commissioned audit declares. The 2021 audit was carried out by KPMG Legal and found “communication between the WAEC and the City of Perth has been largely ineffective”. At 2020’s election Perth council staff identified concerning…
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