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ONE City of Bayswater representative will sit on a panel of five that will make decisions about the future of the Bayswater town centre. DevelopmentWA’s “land redevelopment committee” will set policy and determine significant development applications. The local representative is meant to “enable the community and local government to be involved in the development and…
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A BAN on wheel clamping might lead to even pricier tow truck operators filling the gap in the market, according to WA’s transport department. The clamp ban idea came about after Stirling mayor Mark Irwin asked for an investigation August 2019, as he’d seen clamps used for “detaining of people and their property and extorting…
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You’re just mint, Khin I CAN’T ever remember reading anything so heartfelt, so thoughtful, so profound and so moving as Feeling like an Aussie (Voice Letters, June 13, 2020). Khin Myint, you’re a gem. Thank you so much for sharing. You are Australian. We all are. I came here in the 70s. I had lived in…
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GORDON WESTWOOD is Maylands resident and not-so-loyal subject of Her Majesty Elizabeth the Second, by the Grace of God Queen of Australia and Her other Realms and Territories, Head of the Commonwealth. IT is very odd the United Kingdom of Great Britain is desperately trying to convince themselves and everyone else through their disreputable mainstream television…
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AS my family and I got out of the car in Mt Lawley, the heavens opened and we got absolutely drenched. We quickly scampered into Beaux Lane and took refuge under a dripping gutter. “We’re soaked through; we’re freezing,” complained the kids. Having been brought up in Scotland, I was non-plussed. “It’s just a shower…
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A GRITTY drama about immigrant abuse in Paris, Les Misérables, is one of the highlights of this year’s Alliance Française French Film Festival. Set in the volatile Paris district of Montfermeil in the aftermath of the 2018 World Cup, the tense drama is based on real-life police brutality that was filmed by director Ladj Ly.…
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MARIA WILLIAMS spent nearly 20 years trying to piece together who she is. A member of the Stolen Generation, she was taken to Sister Kate’s Cottage Home for Children as a seven-year-old, banned from speaking her native tongue and told nothing of her family history. Notorious for the physical and sexual abuse the children had…
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VINCENT council will hold off rubber-stamping a WA government bike plan until it does its own community consultation. That will see it risk missing out on funding by blowing past an “incredibly unusual” deadline. The WA Department of Transport wanted all councils to endorse the new “Long Term Cycle Network” plan by July 16 in…
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VINCENT council says it has “no legal basis” to intervene in an internal battle at Mt Hawthorn’s Anzac Cottage, but will still offer to broker an armistice. The council owns the 38 Kalgoorlie Street building and the Vietnam Veterans Association (WA) has a long term lease on it through to 2041. The Friends of Anzac…
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AN army of volunteers is needed to plant 40,000 native seedlings along Bayswater’s foreshore and bushlands to create future homes for frogs, birds and other critters. Bayswater council’s winter tree planting program is putting down 2000 youngster trees in July and August along with the seedlings, and mayor Dan Bull says “we are focusing on…
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