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Author: Your Herald
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Hands off heritage THE demolition of iconic buildings often goes by quietly to avoid community outrage. This has been the case in the destruction of many sites of significant cultural and historic significance. The motive behind this so-called development is always profit and greed. Historically the CFMEU has played an important role in green-bans. The most…
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WITH WA turning a deep shade of red on Saturday night, I almost expected to see Mark McGowan levitating above Perth like some political deity. No such joy, but for a minute I thought I glimpsed John Carey in a microlight, carpet bombing the city with red Lego bricks. Sanity prevailed when my family and…
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MELISSA CLEMENTS is one of the homegrown success stories featured in next weekend’s Fine Art exhibition at Perth College. A former Perth College art captain in 2016, Clements won the Visual Arts ATAR that year, opened the Fine Art exhibition in 2017, and went on to study in New York and Florence before returning to…
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WHEN I heard the owner of this Perth home was a well-known antiques dealer, I hoped it was going to be full of individuality and bold twists and turns. I wasn’t disappointed. This three bedroom two bathroom abode has the owner’s eclectic fingers all over it, from the Art Nouveau leadlight windows to the moosehead…
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MORE than 600 dead fish were found in the Swan River near the Garratt Road bridge this week. Mostly bream, they were reported around the bridge and upstream on March 6, with the WA health department warning against fishing or even touching the water. The health department says the cause and extent is still being…
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PLANS to put a commercial kiosk in Hyde Park has the WA branch of the Australian Garden History Society “deeply concerned”. The society says the kiosk could be detrimental to the park’s health and heritage, and it should be retained as a non-commercial space. Vincent council is testing public opinion on whether to put a…
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THE first woman elected to a WA road board, Nellie Fawdrey Tant, has had a park named in her honour. Bayswater mayor Dan Bull first moved to name a park after Ms Tant back in 2019. She was elected to Bayswater’s predecessor the Belmont-Bayswater Road Board in 1921. The first woman to be on a road…
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A World War II era Women’s Land Army Recruitment poster. ANZAC Cottage is marking Women’s History Month with its March Anzac Afternoon dedicated to the Australian Women’s Land Army. The AWLA was formed after Japan entered World War II, with Australian prime minister John Curtin’s response to the threat to build-up the armed forces, leaving…
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FOGO is starting in Bayswater with the “kitchen caddies” going out now and due to be in every home within the next four weeks. Under the new three bin system the lime green lidded bins currently used for garden waste will now also take food and be picked up weekly. The kitchen caddies are little bins…
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EAST PERTH residents will meet with WA Cricket Association representatives this week to get a better idea of the planned WACA redevelopment. A reno of the WACA’s been on the drawing board for years since Perth’s new stadium was announced in 2011, and given more impetus in 2013 when the WACA was overlooked to host…
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