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JAPANESE botany could be front and centre of a plan to transform Perth’s verges into mini forests. Murdoch University research fellow Grey Coupland is an expert in Miyawaki forest revegetation and will be keynote speaker at an Urban Bushland information night in White Gum Valley next month. The Miyawaki method, which was developed in Japan…
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WITH the world’s eyes focused on Iran’s response to Israel’s latest drone attacks on Hezbollah, and memories of Mahsa Amini’s death at the hands of the country’s morality police still lingering, Iranian-Australian playwright and actor Elham Eshraghian-Haakansson’s latest work comes at an opportune time to understand a little more about a most complex culture. Eshraghian-Haakansson…
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THE Beautiful Summer is a sensitive portrayal of a lesbian coming-of-age experience in Fascist pre-WWII Italy. “Freely inspired by” the 1949 novel by Cesare Pavese, the story is of a naïve country girl moving to the big city, Turin. Against the vague and undeveloped backdrop of Mussolini’s war preparations, the Penguin teaser says about the…
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IT’S been dubbed Fediterranea; the distinctive architectural style that categorised European migration to Australia following World War II. And while the ubiquitous columns, arches and concrete lions were once the butt of jokes, Aussies have come to love their ‘wog palaces’ and they now proudly stand alongside their colonial counterparts in many a local council’s…
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CHILDCARE operators could be invited to put in bids to build and run an out-of-school-hours facility on Gibbney Reserve in the latest bid to find a solution to a chronic shortage of places in Maylands. Councillor Nat Latter has put forward a motion for Bayswater council to support a lease on the reserve for a…
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VINCENT council says a public artwork celebrating an important Indigenous institution should be repaired in the “coming weeks” after it was targeted by a graffiti vandal. The artwork in Weld Square is based on the little-known story of the Coolbaroo League Social Club, which formed in 1946 and offered Indigenous people an opportunity to gather…
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UNHOSTED short-term rentals will only be able to operate 90 days each year without council approval under new rules introduced by the Cook government. The amendments to the regulations are an attempt to sort out the sector following a decade-long debate between those concerned about long-term rental shortages and disrupted neighbourhoods and those who feel…
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BACK in 1987 when Limbo Dance Club opened its doors at 232 William Street, few might have predicted the lasting influence the nightclub and its band of small but diehard devotees would have on Perth. The bush doofs and raves that to this day get under WA Police’s skin all have their genesis in the…
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MORE Bayswater residents are asking for a verge tree, as the City tries to combat the loss of its green canopy to infill. Bayswater council has just finished a bumper winter planting season, with more than 50,000 trees and shrubs finding their way onto verges, parks and reserves. Acting mayor Elli Petersen-Pik said the community…
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WA is well-placed to cash in on a renewed interest in getting outdoors, but needs more qualified leaders to help the sector reach its potential, says the peak organisation representing educators, adventure tourism and recreation operators. Crawley-based Outdoors WA released a report this week that pulled together decades of research into the benefits of getting…
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