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A RANGE of established and emerging Indigenous artists tell a story of standing strong and celebrating their heritage and culture at Gallery Central for NAIDOC Week. I See You, I Hear You explores non-verbal communication through gesture, clothing and adornments, and features artists such as Minang Noongar Christopher Pease, who uses native flora as a…
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After a terrible bushfire, an injured Magpie and Dog form an unexpected friendship, sharing a deep bond, until…into their midst a Fox arrives! Adapted from the book by Margaret Wild and Ron Brooks, Fox is a thrilling fusion of puppetry and dance, presented by Spare Parts Puppet Theatre. Fox takes you on a journey through scorched scrubland…
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THANKS to a massive wall of glass stretching up to the second level ceiling, light poured into the foyer of 1/233 Charles Street, North Perth and I reached for my sunnies before heading upstairs. The five townhouses making up the complex are so new the paint is barely dry, and they had that lovely new…
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A LOW-COST, creative solution to a lack of play areas for older kids is taking off across Vincent as a “Pop up Play” revolution. There’s plenty of slides and swings around town for younger kids, but there’s a gap for older children and Vincent council’s PUP aims to provide low-cost creative stuff for them to…
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THE Bayswater Bowling and Recreation Club is challenging a $19,000 rates bill owed to Bayswater council, claiming it was blackmailed into signing an unfair lease. Club president Mark Cameron told the June 25 council meeting “we signed that lease under duress” and as a result it should be considered “null and void”. In 2016, after…
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AT least one developer has some confidence in Beaufort Street, with an eight-storey, mixed-use development on the way for the long-empty Highgate Drycleaners site. Baltinas Architecture designed the $10 million, 26-apartment block with four small retail spaces on the ground floor, and two offices upstairs. It generated 20 objections from neighbours, and is taller than…
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NEWSPAPER conglomerate Community News Group, owned by 7West Media, has killed off the Guardian Express newspaper in a round of major amalgamations and redundancies. The Guardian has been merged into the Eastern Reporter, which currently covers Morley, and will now carry that name. CNG says the changes are aimed at “simplifying its masthead names” and…
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THE Vincent Men’s Shed has a new free little library outside its premises at 10 Farmer Street, North Perth. “The library is for all members of the public from children to adults to encourage reading and put down digital devices for a short time,” shed treasurer Roy Haagman said. “The aim of the library is…
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VINCENT council has ushered in its 2019/20 budget with an average residential rate increase of 2.7 per cent. Mayor Emma Cole said it wasn’t a showy or flashy budget, but was about “future thinking” to deliver key community initiatives, such as the roll-out of its three-bin FOGO system. It’s due to start next financial year…
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A DOGGY daycare in the West Perth scout hall has been rejected again by Perth council commissioners, despite warnings from staff the decision could be overturned on appeal and the city hit with legal costs. Commissioners Andrew Hammond and Gaye McMath first rejected the Madame Ma’s Doggie Daycare application for a change-of-use for 581 Murray…
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