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I WAS en route to one of the best-named restaurants in Perth – the Fat Dragon. A stalwart of Mt Lawley, the Chinese has seen off countless food fads and trends over the years, as well as the recent economic decline in the suburb. So what’s its secret? Well the owners know their market –…
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A MEMORABLE house usually has one or two interesting features or talking points. This Bayswater abode has a front deck that looks like the prow of a ship cutting through a tranquil lake of grass. It’s just one of the lovely features in this five bedroom, two bathroom home, which was built in the mid…
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RARE Carnaby’s black cockatoos have returned to Baigup Wetlands. The Baigup Wetlands Interest Group and Bayswater council have been working to pull out weeds and restore biodiversity at the wetlands’ which straddles Bayswater and Maylands. The area’s suffered from acid-sulphate soils, high salinity levels, invasive weeds and introduced species including domestic dogs bothering the wildlife.…
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‘Pay $500,000 or we won’t come’ WA Day celebrations look like they’ll be held outside the WA capital after Perth city councillors decided against giving organisers the full funding they wanted. It was held in the Perth CBD in 2018 but then the major events moved to Burswood in 2019 before being Covid-cancelled in 2020.…
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A BAYSWATER smash repairer with a long record of breaches has been fined $18,000 for continuing to take money off customers despite not being licensed to fix their cars. Raymond John Goodall from The Force in Smash Repairs was fined back in 2012 for operating without a licence and misleading consumers about having one. He…
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A WA-made film is soon to get a wider screening after wowing audiences at its premiere last month. Shot entirely in Merredin, Greenfield is the tale of a man who returns to his small town to win back his former girlfriend, but tensions explode when his brother lets him in on a dark secret. The…
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A BOOK about the history of WA’s fire service and Murray Street’s Old Perth Fire Station launches this weekend, with 2021 marking 120 years since the station opened. “120 Years of WA Fire Service History” was written by long-time fire service members Phil Cribb, Ron Harley and Bill Rose. Mr Harley compiled fire service memorabilia…
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AUTHOR Melinda Tognini gives a talk this Friday April 23 on the people often left out of the story of Australia at war: The wives and families of the men who died. By the end of World War II the phrase “lest we forget” was in common usage to remember the fallen soldiers, but their…
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THE late Prince Philip, Duke of Edinburgh, visited Perth on a number of occasions including in 1962 when he opened the VIIth British Empire and Commonwealth Games. The official opening of the games was held at Perry Lakes Stadium before a crowd of 50,000 people on 22 November, 1962. The Duke of Edinburgh officiated in…
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THE winner of the Fremantle Round House ballad competition has joined calls for the Swan River Colony’s first execution to be revisited, saying he doesn’t believe the hanged boy was guilty of murder. Local troubadour Justin Walshe wrote The Ballad of John Gavin after delving into the controversial circumstances behind the 15-year-old’s execution and burial…
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