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ARIES (Mar 21 – Apr 20) The Sun has moved into Aries. Your feet are back on the ground. Shake yourself off and get your passions back in order. The Sun and Chiron are working in tandem this week. Chiron is a healer. Ruptures caused by going in too hard can now be soothed and…
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THIS Inglewood home was once the residence of disgraced WA premier Ray O’Connor. And rumour has it there’s a safe, stuffed with misbegotten cash, hidden on this Ninth Avenue property. “But trust me, we haven’t found it,” the owner says. The Liberal pollie served six months in jail for fraud, during the WA Inc scandal,…
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A NORTHBRIDGE restaurateur had to walk his bride down the aisle of Perth’s distinctly unromantic immigration detention centre a fortnight ago after she was detained for what the couple claims is a misunderstanding over her visa. Jeremy Lay, who owns the Asian restaurant Buda Buda on Francis Street, met Sirilak Laksom during a trip to…
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VINCENT council is scrambling to try and recover thousands of staff emails which have been deleted in contravention of the State Records Act. The gaping flaw in Vincent’s record keeping came to light four weeks ago and has been the subject of an internal investigation, says the council’s director of corporate services Kerryn Batten. In…
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THE Greens’ Perth candidate has urged school kids to attend a climate change “strike” on Friday, despite the WA government warning parents they must legally be in class. Ms Perks says the School Strike for Climate on Friday coincides with her birthday, and “there’s nowhere I’d rather be”. “Growing up in the Perth Hills, bushfires…
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BAYSWATER locals have raised a stink over their council’s approval of a public toilet at the Seventh Avenue bridge in Maylands. Last month the council voted to move an $85,000 public artwork created out of jarrah sleepers from the original 1913 Seventh Avenue bridge to make way for the new dunny. But the Maylands Ratepayers…
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A RESIDENT campaign against proposed changes to the intersection of Carrington Street and Second Avenue in Mt Lawley got a fillip from a Perth rich-lister this week. Pharmacist turned multi-millionaire property mogul Con Berbatis, who lives on First Avenue, has commissioned a traffic study into mini-roundabouts and hired a PR consultant to convince Stirling council…
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• Road safety minister Michelle Roberts, Perth MP John Carey, Vincent mayor Emma Cole and her kids on Mary Street in Mount Lawley. ALL residential streets in the southern half of Vincent will have a 40kmh speed limit as part of a two-year trial starting April 29. It’ll affect most local roads south of Vincent…
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DINERS could soon be able to enjoy a tipple in parklets across Vincent. Under council rules, liquor has been prohibited in the little sitting areas that have popped up in car bays throughout Leederville and other town centres. There’s rarely anyone in the one on Newcastle Street near Pinchos, as Spanish wine, sangria and cerveza…
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DON’T eat fish, crabs or other shellfish collected from the Swan River between the old Swan Road Brewery and Garratt Road Bridge. An algal bloom is plaguing the river and the Department of Health says recent testing has confirmed high levels of potentially toxic microscopic algae, which can produce “paralytic shellfish poisoning”. Cooking won’t kill…
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