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A RELOCATED Chinese New Year celebration, a Festival of Sail, and a multi-generational LGBTI+ barn hoedown are on a lineup of events hoped to kickstart the city’s post-coronavirus recovery. Perth city council has set aside $1.25 million for post-Covid events this financial year, focusing on bringing visitors back to the city centre and reversing the…
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Eighty years on from a dramatic month PATRICK GUITON is an Attadale resident; but he hasn’t always been so lucky to have such a prestigious postcode to call home. Eighty years ago, he called the Channel Islands home, and in this Speaker’s Corner remembers the day war really hit home. JUNE 1940 is well known…
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GODZILLA was literally breathing down my neck when I went for lunch at Mr Oro Sushi on Sunday. Thankfully he was just a giant mural on the restaurant wall, and I didn’t have to summon Rodan to fight my corner (he was one of Godzilla’s arch enemies who, ach, it doesn’t matter…) The small Mt…
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THE Voice played a small role in the success of Carla Geneve’s latest single Don’t Wanna Be Your Lover. The video was shot in the garage of our heritage-listed offices in the West End of Fremantle. The opening bars of the catchy song are ingrained in my subconscious, as they were replayed for hours until…
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FROM top to bottom winner. Built around 1950, this three bedroom three bathroom house has been restored and enhanced to an impeccable standard. Everything looks brand spanking new with pristine white walls and polished floorboards. I love the open plan kitchen/living/dining area; it flows nicely and gives the home a communal feel. The kitchen itself…
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MOST people only think of dust when it’s spring cleaning time, but a Maylands astronomer says without a special kind of dust we might never get to enjoy a beautiful starry night. Omima Osman is a final year PhD candidate at UWA where she’s spent the last two and a half years researching cosmic dust,…
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A SITE’S been chosen at the corner of Hill and Wellington Streets in East Perth for the Common Ground housing block for homeless people. The Common Ground model lets people stay in self-contained homes as long as they need and provides them with intensive support services, and has seen good results in other cities. The…
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A PERTH mum is steaming after car clampers swooped while her son was grabbing a quick takeaway coffee in Bayswater at 6.38am ‚Äì hours before businesses were due to open. Local executive Maria McAtackney says her son stopped for the pre-dawn coffee at Drip Expresso on Friday July 10 when he was stung by workers…
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SINCE coming out of a palliative care ward in March, Carmela Yom-Tov says she feels full of gratitude for the care she’s received. Dr Yom-Tov has terminal blood cancer and didn’t know what to expect after her release from hospital, when she was referred to Silver Chain’s palliative care team “to have as easy a…
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YET another prominent garden denuded to make way for a subdivision in Bayswater has put the WA Planning Commission under the spotlight over its lack of protection for trees. The latest significant clearing was the front half of 13 Swan View Terrace, which Maylands residents Katy and Murray Riggall describe as an “iconic Maylands garden”…
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