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BAYSWATER councillor BRENT FLEETON is furious that the WA government is considering taking planning decisions away from local government. In this week’s SPEAKER’S CORNER he argues there is no substitute for local knowledge. AS my favourite footy commentator says, “Boy, oh boy!” A whole new front just opened up in the planning battle in Perth.…
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MY roommate and I are bachelors and we’re feeling a bit down, so we decided to do a Bridget Jones and stuff our faces at Mack Daddy’s New York Slice. It turned out to be one of the most over-indulgent and yummiest meals we’ve ever had, and the Mt Lawley pizzeria definitely cheered us up.…
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BUSHFIRES have loomed large in the Australian psyche since colonisation, but while a blackened, desolate landscape is the enduring image, Perth artist Nigel Hewitt has been finding a new beauty among the ashes. Hewitt has used ash from bushfires in WA and Tasmania to create monochromatic portraits of contemporary Australia that he says shows the…
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ARIES (Mar 21 – Apr 20) The Sun has moves out of Aries, taking away some of the attention that has been coming your way. In its place, the asteroid Chiron arrives. Chiron in known as the Shaman, or the Wounded Healer. When he is around we begin to be aware of and heal our…
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GOING by the photo in the formal lounge of this magnificent Mt Lawley home, a straw boater and suit was de rigueur for the state cricket team in 1912. In the front row of the photo is the original owner, and on the ornate fireplace there is a photo of his elegantly dressed daughter getting…
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ABOUT 2000 people marched through Perth on the weekend, calling for the federal government to expedite asylum and immigration applications from white farmers facing violent attacks in South Africa. Speakers included Liberal MP Andrew Hastie and Liberal Democrat Aaron Stonehouse, who’ve been accused by Labor of joining “extreme right-wingers” for the march. Persecuted group But…
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EAST PERTH and Subiaco football clubs have been left reeling after being told they’ll each have to find an extra $46,000 a year to keep leasing Leederville Oval. Vincent council recently reviewed the clubs’ 21-year leases and discovered it had been paying more than its share of turf maintenance, insurance, water and power as well…
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THE demolition this week of a once-stately home overlooking Hyde Park has sparked concerns the floodgates have opened for the whole historic precinct to be surrounded by townhouses. Museum of Perth chair Reece Harley has called on Vincent council to beef up its heritage protection, saying the line of old homes along Vincent Street provided…
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THE Metropolitan Redevelopment Authority has apologised to people who missed buses and trains in Perth on Saturday night after it closed off parts of Yagan Square for a swanky private dinner. People who use the square as a shortcut to Perth Busport and train station were met with detours signs funnelling them down streets after…
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AFTER 23 years there isn’t a single dog-eared page to indicate it’s ever been wielded in anger, but Vincent council’s Nuclear Free Zone policy only just escaped the axe last week. The policy was adopted under Vincent’s first mayor Jack Marks in 1995, with the fledgling municipality striving to establish its “progressive” cred after being…
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