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A CHILDHOOD spent in the rural beauty of Nannup was the inspiration for Holli Scott’s latest album Weather and Weeds. The Perth jazz singer grew up in the sleepy WA town and its old railway bridges, wildflowers and majestic trees inspired songs with poetic lyrics and a bitter-sweet vibe. “I spent a lot of time…
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YOU’LL feel like an extra from Gone with the Wind in this Bayswater mansion. The striking white balcony is like something you would find on a house in the deep south of America, where the owners sip sweet iced tea and nibble on peach pie. It’s a fantastic entry statement that will turn heads as…
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At the turn of the year, Tom Kerrigan and family took over the reins of the longstanding local business Riverside Gallery that has been a fixture in the Willetton community for around 30 years. A few months later an exciting opportunity presented itself: the adjoining unit became available, which had great potential as a gallery…
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A DOCUMENTARY that debuted at Vincent council’s annual short film festival has been selected as the sole Aussie entry in a World Health Organisation film festival. Radheya Jegatheva’s film Pacing the Pool is about long-time Beatty Park Leisure Centre swimmer Richard Pace’s journey in overcoming a lifelong illness. It was fundedd through the City of…
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A STOUSH has broken out after a residents’ group only invited three candidates for this month’s extraordinary Perth council election to a meet and greet session last Thursday. Former deputy mayor Sandy Anghie, who’s backing Dave Lee and Jason Bo, said a flyer emailed to residents in a number of apartment buildings in Adelaide Terrace…
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FIVE candidates have put their hand up to take the vacant seat at Perth council in the October 18 extraordinary election. The postal election was brought on by former councillor Brent Fleeton’s resignation at the end of August to take up a new job based in the Middle East. The candidates are Dave Lee, Naijiao…
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ELIGIBLE community groups and organisations could receive up to $5000 from Bayswater council for projects or programs that support the local community. The City is offering up to half the funds required for projects that support community connection, health and wellbeing or vulnerable people in the Bayswater community as part of the Better Bayswater grants.…
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INTERNATIONALY renowned Indian historian, author, journalist, political commentator and Marxist intellectual, Vijay Prashad is making a speaking tour of Perth on November 6. Prashad is executive director of the Tricontinental Institute for Social Research, editor of LeftWord Books, chief correspondent at Globetrotter Media and a senior non-resident fellow at Chongyang Institute for Financial Studies, Renmin…
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PADDY CULLEN is a long-time environmental activist who’s doing some work with The Wilderness Society to save our northern jarrah forest. THE northern jarrah forest is one of the world’s great natural wonders. Encompassing over a third of the South West forests in WA, it is incredibly beautiful and diverse. Tiny quokkas, woylies and numbats…
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WHEN I perused the menu at the Como Hotel and saw the “Doggies” section, I had a flashback to Trump’s bizarre rant about Haitian immigrants in Ohio eating pets. Thankfully the Como isn’t serving up Poodle Parmis, Bulldog Burgers or Loaded Chihuahua Fries, it’s actually providing free dog snacks and bowls of water for customers’…
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