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BAYSWATER waste recycling plant Resource Recovery Solutions has been found guilty of “gross negligence” after a worker’s arm was amputated at the shoulder in 2016. It’s the first time a company has been found guilty of gross negligence under the Occupational Safety and Health Act’s requirements to provide a safe work place; “the most serious…
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Council didn’t alert tree owner OWNERS of historic properties are starting to pepper Bayswater council to get their places off its heritage list. In February the council added dozens more properties to its heritage list, giving them some statutory protection against demolition. The decision followed a long consultation process but some owners said they never received letters advising them…
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HOMELESS Connect Perth will not run in 2020. The big one-day annual event usually runs in November at Russell Square, connecting homeless people with a variety of support organisations and offering services like dental work and haircuts. Volunteering WA organises the event but says along with major partner, Perth city council, it had decided not to…
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PICABAR’S just hibernating and will return. As other bars reopen through the CBD, Picabar’s remained pointedly shut, with furniture cleared out and the courtyard emptied, raising fears it might’ve closed for good. It turns out the owners took the lockdown time to do some extensive renos, thinking bars might be closed longer than they were. Picabar’s…
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GEORGE NEILSON is a senior teaching fellow at Curtin University’s business school with a speciality in management techniques. In today’s THINKING ALLOWED he gives a personal perspective of Wuhan, up until recently almost an almost unknown Chinese city – until it was identified as the breeding ground of the Covid-19 pandemic. Mr Neilson says WA’s…
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As my wife drove through Perth CBD, I looked out the car window and saw a 1000ft statue of Basil Zempilas looming over the city. Perched on his chest was Steve Mills, rubbing brasso into Basil’s bronze nipples and mayoral chains. “No,” I mumbled as we pulled into the Inglewood Hotel car park. “It can’t…
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ESKIMO JOE’S collaboration with the WA symphony orchestra was the catalyst for their first new music in seven years, says lead singer Kav Temperley. Last year the Perth band performed two sold-out shows with WASO to celebrate their 21st birthday. “These amazing arrangers were turning our songs into beautiful orchestral pieces,” Temperley says. “It re-inspired…
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IF you love a two-for-one deal then this Mount Lawley home will be right up your street. Situated on a 916sqm block on First Avenue, it was originally a single brick home that has been subdivided into two. Potential buyers have loads of options – renovate and turn it into one big family home, demolish…
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‘An asset for kids, families and city workers’ A NEW inner-city pool is being floated as part of the Perth City Deal, with the old East Perth WACA ground pitched as a possible site. Perth state Labor MP John Carey and Perth council are gauging interest in the idea, which emerged at the Perth City Summit consultation days Mr…
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ABOUT 500 people gathered in Langley Park for a youth rally supporting the Black Lives Matters protests last Saturday. With posters demanding governments address the appalling rate of Indigenous incarceration in Australia and work towards sovereignty for First Nations people, the grassroots group responsible for organising the protest, Boorloo Justice, guided the chanting protesters through the…
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