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LORD MAYOR Basil Zempilas’s plan to set up pop-up beds in council carparks for people experiencing homelessness has been smothered by red tape. Perth council will now open another bed-less night shelter in July at the Citiplace Community Centre after a report found it would cost $500,000 and take too long to bring it up…
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“PERTH is the Las Vegas of Australia.” Local DJs are the hype of Australia thanks to Covid, says one of the city’s stars who’s hit the international big time. While the rest of the world is left with empty dancefloors and dry bars, Perth’s nightclub scene is thriving. Its best DJs, including the likes on…
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Microplastic clogging the farthest reaches RESULTS from a groundbreaking research project measuring microplastic pollution in some of Earth’s remotest waters have started to filter in. The research was linked to famed Australian sailor Jon Sanders 11th solo circumnavigation of the globe earlier this year, as he collected daily water samples while sailing through the Indian, Atlantic, Pacific…
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FLASH Gordon, haute-couture and mummy issues collide in the mind-boggling Beginning at the End (of Capitalism). The one-woman show features Phoebe Sullivan performing in a green screen studio, with the audience able to watch her without effects or on huge screens with retro sci-fi backdrops, aliens and laser beams. “The easiest way to think of it…
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HIGHGATE is a great suburb for young couples looking to get onto the property ladder. You’ve got a huge variety of cafes, pubs and restaurants nearby on Beaufort Street, East Perth train station is around the corner, and Hyde Park and Brigatti Gardens are perfect for relaxing. The best way to describe this two bedroom…
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A FEARLESS Perth mum has helped raise $16,000 to tackle a cancer that stalks children and teens. Victoria O’Neill and a team of 11 other skydivers took advantage of some perfect weather recently to jump from a plane over Jurien to raise money for research into Sarcoma. The cancer affects bone and tissue, and is…
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CHANGING the City of Stirling’s name has been shot down as “not a priority” in front of a packed and lively public gallery. A sometimes fiery public question time stretched out over an hour as people shared opposing, and sometimes confronting, viewpoints. As Yokine youth worker Lorna Graham-Geraghty pleaded for the council to consider the…
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Photo Caption: A smoking ceremony prepares the Safe Night Space ahead of opening day. Photo supplied THE Safe Night Space for women has opened in the Rod Evans Centre and has seen 53 women take shelter there in its first eight days. Perth city council originally planned to open the space by late January or…
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Helping to keep local stories in the limelight Photo Caption: Images of past people like this 1925 photo of Olive Mary Hale (nee Buck, marrying Rupert Hale a year later) have been preserved thanks to 20 years of local history awards. STORIES and photos of Vincent’s past are sought for the 2021 instalment of the…
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Photo Caption: Wikileaks founder Julian Assange ANOTHER human rights issue raised at Stirling’s electors’ general meeting has also hit a dead end, with councillors voting that helping Julian Assange was “outside the remit of the City of Stirling”. Journalist Lucy Nicol moved the motion asking that the council endorsed a position that it “does not…
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