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SEVEN of the CBD’s grandest gum trees will be removed for two high-rise towers to be built opposite Perth Arena. Singaporean-based developer Claridges’ plans for a 26-storey block of offices and a 33-storey block of units was approved by Perth’s Development Assessment Panel on February 20, with the three state government appointed experts and Perth…
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THE stories behind five local and iconic live music venues will be told in a new oral history project launching on March 12. Music in Vincent is a joint project between the Vincent local history centre and the state library, which teamed up to collect stories and interview 13 prominent figures from past and present…
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HIGH-RISE towers would be allowed behind the old Perth Girls School in East Perth under development guidelines currently out for comment. WA government-owned Development WA has been working with the site’s new owners on guidelines for a mixed use precinct with residential, retail, office, dining and community spaces. Development WA is the mega-planning body resulting…
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ANOTHER big development is in the pipeline for Leederville. An eight-storey, 52-unit block is planned for 194-200 Carr Place, with four lots to be amalgamated for the $17 million project. Vincent council staff are dead keen, recommending the Development Assessment Panel (with two councillors and three state government appointed members) approve it at the March…
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CURTIN UNIVERSITY will be awash with purple on March 29 when hundreds of families lap the oval dressed in purple for epilepsy awareness month. The “Purple Walk” is from 10am-2pm and includes live entertainment, food vans and children activities like face painting, a bouncy castle and cuddly animal farm. About 26,000 people in WA have…
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PERTH’S Sam Fitzpatrick tells us the heartbreaking story of her daughter Macy, who has a genetic disorder that causes several conditions including refractory (drug-resistant) epilepsy. MY four-month-old daughter Macy has a devastating genetic disorder called WOREE syndrome, caused by a mutation on the WWOX gene. The gene is essential for brain development and children affected…
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JAN RODDA is as Freo as you get – she’s been thinking outside the square for decades and is a regular volunteer down at her local community centre where she’s always up for a good talk on saving the environment. In this week’s SPEAKER’S CORNER she finds a novel solution to one of the problems…
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NOT all of Perth’s best restaurants are found in affluent suburbs or ritzy high-rises in the CBD. Some are hidden down lane-ways and poorly-lit back streets, or in Hoodburger’s case, a Northbridge food court called Old Shanghai. Surrounded by Chinese restaurants with bain-maries, Hoodburger stands out like dog balls with a bright menu of mouthwatering…
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THE Over The Fence Comedy Film Festival is turning 22 this year and the line up of international short films keeps getting better, director Greg Coffey says. The theme of this year’s festival is Scrambled! with 14 comedies delving into the pitfalls of relationships, including for the first time movies from Holland, South Africa and…
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“Dear Prudence.” IT was just two words, but as the free-lovin’ 60s drew to a close and The Beatles wound up, they were a powerful message about the changing of the guard, of a unique Aussie talent bursting onto the scene. When Doug Parkinson first belted out the opening of The Beatles’ classic call to…
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