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OLD and new coalesce in glorious harmony in this Inglewood home. This home is within walking distance of Edith Cowan University and Mt Lawley High and Primary Schools, where the owners’ kids attended. “We’ve been here 26 years. It’s been a lovely location and a great street,” she says. Built in the early 1900s, this…
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IF you’ve ever bribed your kids into eating carrots by saying it’ll help them see in the dark, you’ve been an unwitting victim of a military grade ‘psy-op’ (psychological operation). This disinformation-disguised-as-an-old-wive’s-tale originated during the Battle of Britain in WWII, as England desperately tried to fend off swarms of German bomber aircraft. Hardy and versatile:…
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DAVID MACONOCHIE is a violinist and GP and has been performing with WACO for three years. AS the last glimmer of sound from the violins faded away, leaving a faint pulsing from the basses, the lights of Perth Concert Hall dimmed and a multitude held their breath, tears in many eyes. For a full 10…
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BAYSWATER council, the Chung Wah Association and Mount Lawley Bowling Club have been caught up in the latest sports rorts scandal. Although the Morrison government has refused to name clubs that missed out on funding from a grants program exposed earlier this month as a political porkbarrel, the ABC on Tuesday published a leaked list…
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AFTER 17 years in storage a blue whale skeleton will be put on display at the new WA Museum. This week the McGowan government announced the iconic bones would hang in the museum’s Hackett Hall when it opens November, suspended in a dynamic “lunge-feeding” pose based on recent research into whale hunting behaviour. The skeleton…
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AROUND 250,000 thrifty people attended Perth’s Australia Day Skyworks show, donating an average of three cents per person to bushfire relief. City of Perth commissioners decided to turn the event into a fundraiser with 50 volunteers walking among the crowd collecting donations in buckets and via EFTPOS. So far the total is $57,521.30, which sounds…
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TWO heritage-listed West Perth houses and the former home of one of serial killer Eric Edgar Cooke’s victims are being demolished by the McGowan government. The Post Newspaper reports that 24-year-old social worker Constance Lucy Madrill was murdered at 70 Thomas Street in Perth by Cooke on February 15, 1963. Cooke killed eight people (that…
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AFTER 30 years Mt Lawley retail veteran John Higgins is closing down Jack Clothing on the corner of Beaufort and Walcott Streets. Despite a conga line of other retailers folding due to the strip’s economic woes, Mr Higgins says he just wants to retire and spend more time relaxing and hanging with his family. Turning…
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A PHOTOGRAPHIC time capsule captures a snapshot of Northbridge street life from one night in 1983. Artist Andrew McDonald is known by many for curating “The Worst of Perth” blog from 2007 to 2017, a loving repository of our bland, underwhelming, or cliched cultural phenomena. But long before the first post he was a photographer…
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AN imperilled tree in Inglewood at the centre of a State Administrative Tribunal dispute will stay for now. The grevillea robusta is on land owned by the John Place unit block at 99 Ninth Ave. Last year some members of the units’ council of owners attempted to have the tree removed, saying it had termites…
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