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ARRIBA, arriba! If you like Latin America then you’ll just love the ceramic hand-painted basins imported from Mexico in this Coolbinia home. They’re just one of the colourful splashes of individuality that make this four bedroom two bathroom home stand out from the crowd. The lounge/dining room is a cracker with beautiful oak parquetry flooring, high…
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WHEN a couple seperate or get divorced, there’s often a messy tussle over who gets the kids, but where does that leave grandparents? In this month’s Seniors feature, Catherine Leach from Perth’s Leach Legal explains what access rights grandparents have to their grandkids after a break-up. CHILDREN have a right to spend time on a…
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Learn how to heal through art, music, stories and language by Jane GrljusichHerald Promotions Group therapy. Sound daunting? It’s not really, and its worth any worry. My experience at Wisdom In Your Life’s Healing Your Mind day courses was astonishing. Coming together with others, including Aboriginal people, to express (only if you choose to)…
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FOLLOWING a sell-out Perth Festival oral history performance exploring a massacre of Whadjuk Noongars at Galup (Lake Monger), elders are calling for a memorial at the site and the story to be told in schools. Galup, the Noongar name for the area and the title of the performance, explored the story of a disputed massacre as it…
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DERELICT for years, the old Midway Taxi rank site at 387 Oxford Street has sold for $9.1 million. It was off the market for 35 years, owned by the Midway Taxi Management since 1985, and vacant for most of the past decade. The site is currently only used by an occasional group of skaters for moody…
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ONE final bulk rubbish verge collection is scheduled in Vincent during July. Both treasured and reviled, the yearly tradition of a month-long scavenger hunt is being phased out after too many complaints about people dumping garbage weeks before pickup time, poorly behaved trash-pickers, and out-of-towners swinging by to add their non-Vincent garbage to local piles.…
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Artists do it without ‘dirty’ money A NEW arts festival Brink has emerged promising to treat artists fairly and to challenge Fringe World’s acceptance of fossil fuel cash. In recent years some artists have been growing increasingly uncomfortable with Fringe’s major sponsor being Woodside, a fossil fuel company that’s also been criticised for its handling…
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FOR years before its demolition the old arts union building at 123 Claisebrook Road sat on a draft heritage inventory, passing hands from Perth council to Vincent and neither going through with granting it any permanent heritage protection. Built in 1890, for 50 years it was the base of president of the Authorised Newsagents Association of…
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VETERAN firefighter Ron Harley has marked 60 years’ of service, first on the front line defending lives and property and then behind the scenes fighting to save the Old Perth Fire Station museum from demolition. Mr Harley, 86, left Highgate secondary school at 14 and worked as a milkman, carpenter and whale flenser before joining…
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FROM Vincent Library’s local history centre archives comes this photograph and information from Julia Robinson-White, great-granddaughter of prominent trader Bill Beadle. It was submitted to the 2020 Local History Awards, with supplemental research by Friends of Local History volunteer Liz Millward. NEXT time you’re at the corner of Charles and Newcastle Streets, take a moment…
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