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AFTER 21 years, revered Pearl of Highgate patisserie chef Nick Niederberger is retiring. Building owners Franz Seidl and Hanneke Rekelhof organised a get together for their beloved tenant on July 4 to farewell the master patissier with friends and supporters, including Vincent mayor Emma Cole (Mr Niederberger baked her wedding cake 17 years ago). Originally from Switzerland…
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WITH successive state government plans for an Aboriginal cultural centre having come and gone without a brick being laid, federal Labor MP Patrick Gorman says it’s time for the Commonwealth to fund a national centre in WA. First the Dowding government’s 1989 plan for a centre at the old Swan Brewery site, then the Court government’s…
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CHARGES have been laid against former Perth city councillor Jim Adamos. Police from the WA Financial Crimes Division laid the charges just three days after City of Perth inquiry commissioner Tony Power gave his summation before heading off to prepare his final report. Two charges against Mr Adamos allege that in August 2017, “through a…
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CONSULTATION’S open for the future of Vincent’s bike lanes and the WA government says it’ll accept late answers. Originally the Department of Transport wanted all councils to endorse its “Long Term Cycle Network” plan by June 30, saying only those routes outlined in the plan would be eligible for state funding for a year. Vincent…
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ARTIST and researcher DeeDee Noon has spent years examining peoples’ connection to toys. When she recently returned from a trip down south to find bears in many Perth windows to comfort children during lockdown, she was compelled to photograph them and delve deeper into the origins and meanings. “No one’s been able to pin down…
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IN November a group of 11,000 scientists co-signed a letter stating that climate change was happening faster than previously thought, declaring a “climate emergency” requiring urgent change to how we live. Here in Perth, the local North of the River group of the global Extinction Rebellion movement have recently emerged from lockdown and have written this week’s…
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AS we stare down a financial apocalypse, most of us will be looking for good value when eating out. I spotted some great mid-week deals at The Oxford Hotel, so I decided to take the family up to Leederville for a Tuesday night feed. The Oxford had an al carte menu with a decent range…
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SIAHNE Rogers sifts through the detritus of her grandfather’s doomed burger empire, Fast Eddy’s, in the exhibition Hatched. Fast Eddy’s was Perth’s first 24 hour fast food restaurant and opened to much fanfare in 1979 on the corner of Hay and Milligan Streets. It soon became home to a diverse and colourful cast of characters…
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THERE’S a real sense of history to this federation home in North Perth. There’s no ostentatious chandeliers or in-your-face architecture, but a number of under-stated period touches create lots of character and charm. Combine that with all the mod cons and you have a superb 21st century home. The facade of this three bedroom one…
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LOCALS pining for a pint have flooded back to pubs as restrictions are lifted. The Rosemount Hotel’s manager Calvin Hook says it’s been heartening to see people pour back in post-lockdown. When the hotel had a very partial reopening mid-May with a 20 person limit, he says “we were overwhelmed with the response from the local community. “Every session…
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