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LIKE a love letter from the past, this delightful 1905 semi-detached has loads of appeal for millennial couples. The bull-nosed verandah, with wrought iron lacework, is a great spot to relax on the weekend. I could imagine sitting here with a drink and enjoying the sound of tennis balls being patted across the nets at…
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THE Alcohol and Drug Foundation is warning Australians not to use booze as a crutch during the coronavirus pandemic. Spending on alcohol at bottle shops is up 86 per cent compared to the end of March last year as people stockpile grog and quell their anxiety with drink. “We are worried that as alcohol sales…
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THE WA health department is refusing to say whether it has found any Coronavirus infections linked to a user of the gym at the Terry Tyzack aquatic centre who tested positive last week. Stirling council closed the centre when it was told of the infection on Monday, but failed to mention the positive test when…
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ONCE the pandemic passes and we return to some kind of normality, could Australia’s first trackless tram be rumbling through Stirling to Scarborough Beach? The proposed $97 million tram route would connect at the Glendalough Train Station and continue 7.5km along Scarborough Beach Road, ultimately linking Perth CBD to the beach. Earlier this month, deputy…
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AN Aboriginal community group has missed out on finding a home in Vincent, but hasn’t given up hope yet. The Wadjuk Northside Aboriginal Community Group had been hoping to expand from its Balga community centre and open a branch at Woodville Reserve on Farmer Street, North Perth. It had been hoping to snag the empty…
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JUST before the coronavirus became a pandemic, Inglewood went all hipster with its first ever parklet. Featuring a swing bench for people of all ages and Jenga-style seating, the parklet is outside Finlay and Sons café on Dundas Road. Parklets are temporary public meeting spaces in parking bays, designed to attract people to the area…
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SPORT and community groups that have leases with Vincent council will have to undergo an “annual health check” under a proposed new policy. The council has faced something of a rebellion from clubs recently after trying to claw back costs it believes they should be picking up, such as smoke alarm testing, termite treatments or…
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CORONAVIRUS killed off their public forum, but Labor pollies Josh Wilson and Patrick Gorman did their best to keep climate change on the agenda by having a crack at an online talkfest last week. The Perth Future Forum: Future of Climate Action featured MPs Gorman and Wilson (who’s Labor’s shadow assistant minister for the environment)…
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INGLEWOOD mum Roslyn Park had a lightbulb moment to take children’s minds off COVID-19 – and it’s gone down a storm on social media. She’s put up solar-powered fairy lights on her garden and verge trees to make things seem a bit brighter for her neighbours’ kids and passersby. “Bugger it, these fairy lights haven’t…
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A PETITION of 109 signatures calling for parking on Highgate’s Turner Street to be moved across the road has fallen flat, after a bit of digging from Vincent council found residents weren’t all that keen on changing the status quo. The petition was organised by Turner Street resident Lauren Ireland, who wanted all on-street parking…
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