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MAYLANDS café Steam Haus has has given its shopfront a zhush thanks to a $3000 grant from Bayswater council. Café owner Stephanie Crowe installed a new window display and introduced a coffee grind recycling station for composting to create a fresh, sustainable space that draws in customers. Ms Crowe, who took over the business a…
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STORIES are sought to flesh out the history of a little-known figure who helped feed Bayswater for decades – market gardener Hu Che-Em. Hu Che-Em arrived in Australia from China in the 1890s, and was also known as “Hoppy” after the “Hop Chong market garden he ran in Bayswater until the late 1940s or early…
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The BHS’s submission to Bayswater council telling Hu Che-Em’s story, from Catherine May’s book Changes They’ve Seen: The City and People of Bayswater, 1827-2013 (2nd ed). HU CHE-EM was born in 1873 and arrived in Australia in the 1890s. His daughters, Sylvia Gillespie and Evelyn Wigger, have no doubt that he came to Australia in…
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On a Tuesday lunchtime, some suburbs resemble a scene from The Living Dead, but the Albany Highway in East Vic Park is always teeming with life. I’m not saying it’s Beverly Hills, but sometimes the unhinged energy of a place can make it exciting, unpredictable and lots of fun. Many moons ago I used to…
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A KOREAN grandma buying pot for her grandson, a fair dinkum spoof of Kill Bill, and missionaries coming face-to-face with a sarcastic God are some of the wacky goings-on at this year’s World of Dark Comedy. Featuring 14 short films from across the globe, the festival specialises in comedy with macabre overtones and ironic twists.…
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THIS Maylands behemoth is in a top spot just one street back from the Swan River and 150m from Bardon Park. With five bedrooms and three bathrooms to play with, you’ll never be short of space in this two-storey cracker. Its striking facade has an unusual mix of brick work and render, and is sure…
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BAYSWATER council will make it more difficult for developers to raze trees under a revised policy about to go out for consultation. On a night dominated by discussion about how to preserve the city’s tree canopy, the council is also proposing to remove the right of neighbours to have a say on significant trees that…
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WHEN 81-year-old professor Neville Bruce told his wife he was planning to ride across the country to take on Australia’s gas giants, he admits she took some convincing. “She was marvellous, though she was dead against me going at the beginning,” the director of education for world futures at UWA told the Voice. Octogenarian His…
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SINGAPOREAN journalist, writer and activist Kirsten Han will be presenting the Northbridge-based Centre for Stories’ Human Rights lecture on November 28. Ms Han will discuss the themes of her award-winning essay Singapore Will Always Be At War, which explores Singapore’s war on drugs, human rights abuses, and the personal stories of those affected by the…
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ACTIVISTS say the University of WA has effectively tried to ban a left-wing Indian intellectual from a public talk by putting up administrative roadblocks. Renowned Marxist theorist Vijay Prashad was heading to Perth to discuss the crisis in Palestine and modern Indian politics, and was booked to talk at Murdoch University and UWA on November…
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