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SLOW points may be on the way for North Perth under a new Vincent council traffic-calming plan. However long-term traffic petitioners have already panned the initiative as making little sense. Cars snaking through every little residential street has been a long-time concern in the inner-city suburb. Back in 2017 residents called on Vincent council to…
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AS fast as Bayswater council can plant new trees, state government projects and private development just keeps tearing down older growth. Last planting season the council put in 50,000 tubestock native plants and 1,500 new street trees, in an effort to the goal of 20 per cent tree canopy coverage by 2025. The canopy plan’s…
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SIMON DOYLE recently published, along with co-author Jenny Mills, a biography of his great-grandfather George Barber, a doctor who served with the Fremantle Garrison before sailing off to run a venereal disease hospital for unfortunate Anzacs who’d camped right next to an Egyptian brothel district. During his research, he also uncovered a hand-written poem by…
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THIS week’s story from the Vincent Local History Centre looks at the now-demolished Brisbane Street Synagogue that was once the centre of Jewish life in WA. The LHC is also hoping to find photographs and any information about another demolished synagogue on Palmerston Street run by the Perth Jewish Association. THE Brisbane Street Synagogue stood…
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MURDOCH UNIVERSITY’S Antimicrobial and Infectious Diseases Laboratory has made a breakthrough in monitoring bacteria using robotics that promises to slash medical costs and hospitals stays. Sam Abraham from the AMRID-Abraham laboratory at the uni said using robotics could speed up testing for bacterial infections by 700 per cent. “Looking for emerging resistance, currently humans are…
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THE farce that is the City of Vincent’s abandonment of commercial waste collection is getting more ridiculous with time, and sounding more like an episode of ABC’s Utopia. When one business owner asked if businesses had been consulted before the decision had been made, they were told that the City’s Waste Strategy 2018-2023 was advertised…
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FINDING a good dim sum bar outside of Northbridge and East Vic Park has always been a challenge. There’s the odd place that’s got them on the menu, but not many specialise. Thankfully I was walking through Leederville on Tuesday and spotted My House Dumpling, a fairly large eatery which sounded like it had been…
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AN Aboriginal art graduate has blasted his painting apart with a shotgun in a swipe at the colonial mentality in the contemporary art world. Bradley Kickett stabbed and chopped his canvas with a knife before shooting it with multiple calibre rifles and shotgun shells, as part of his installation Boundary Road. “I used the tools…
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YOU can tell this Bayswater home is going to be special by the lovely character facade. Leadlight windows, a cute verandah and painted weatherboard create a charming and very inviting entry statement. The front garden is cute too, with brick paving and nice shrubs and plants. In fact the garden plays a huge role in this…
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SEEING devastating scenes from Covid’s latest wave in India, the owners of Inglewood’s Chakra Restaurant held a fundraiser night to help their birth country’s collapsing medical system. India was doing relatively well against Covid until last month when it was hit by a surge of the more infectious UK strain, exacerbated by mass gatherings allowed…
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