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A POSSE of grannies is planning to ambush premier Mark McGowan outside WA parliament on November 5 to give him a strict ticking off about logging in WA’s native forests. Forty of the Old Growth Grannies, as they’ve been tagged, recently blockaded a logging site in Nannup then set up a protest camp outside Mr…
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IT is interesting to discover that the City of Vincent has asked its design review panel to develop options to improve the desirability of the ‘North Perth Common’ on the corner of View and Fitzgerald Streets. One of the specific issues they have asked the panel to consider is a reduction in the size of…
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AARON SENZIO’S our footy writer. He loves the game, but reckons the AFL should take a lesson from the local boys on how to put on a show that doesn’t leave your ears bleeding and your enthusiasm waning. WHAT a weekend of football it was in WA! Two thrilling games; Saturday’s national league clash between West…
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LAST time I was in the Hyde Park Hotel I was wearing flares and humming the theme tune to M*A*S*H. Well it wasn’t quite that long ago, but it’s been many years, so I was pleasantly surprised by the hotel’s refurbishment which has brought it kicking and screaming into the 21st century. One of the…
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A Country Women’s Association battling hordes of zombies is just one of the wacky movies at The World of Dark Comedy film festival next weekend. Now in its third year, the mini festival at the Backlot Cinema in Perth will feature 15 twisted comedy shorts from across the globe. Festival co-ordinator Greta Schipp says many…
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Future Bayswater still anxious road design will ‘cut off’ town. ‘Trestle’ aesthetic dropped. THE proposed Bayswater train station has been re-designed following widespread discontent over the concept plans released mid-year. The town centre’s advocacy group Future Bayswater delivered a 1024-signature petition to WA parliament in September calling for a redesign to accurately reflect the 2018 sketches…
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A PREVIOUSLY rejected plan for a food kiosk at Hyde Park is back on the agenda. Vincent council staff have suggested a privately-operated kiosk could operate from the storage room attached to the toilet building near the west end to help activate the park. Former councillor Dudley Maier submitted a statement to this week’s council…
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PERTH CBD’s new uni campuses may end up “a playground for the elite” as a result of sharply rising course fees, warns federal Labor MP Patrick Gorman. The ink was barely dry on the Perth City Deal paving the way for ECU’s Mount Lawley campus to move into the city, when it was confirmed the…
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THE WA Tourism Council’s been urging people to “Holiday in WA”, but Perth Labor MP John Carey is imploring travellers to go even more local and support city tourism too. Two city tourism operators recently received state government “tourism business survival grants” aimed at keeping them going during a season without international or interstate tourists. Walking…
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KYILLA Primary School marks its 75th anniversary with an open day on October 24 to showcase its history. There’ll be displays and photos charting the key events, and a year 6 play will explore key moments such as the 1951 crash of a tiger moth plane just metres from the school fence. There were plans…
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