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A PROPOSED ban on plastic bags needs to be tweaked if it’s to be effective, says Fremantle mayor Brad Pettitt. The McGowan government has committed to banning lightweight single-use plastic bags, which are usually less than 35 micrometers thick, from July. But Dr Pettitt wants people to pay for plastic bags and the ban to…
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Vincent mayor Emma Cole dropped in with the council’s new engineering director Andrew Murphy (right) and parks co-ordinator Ian Ellies (left) this week to check the ongoing work to double the size of the neighbourhood park at the end of Hyde Street. Beefing up the little reserve is a pilot project for the council’s new…
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AFTER years of protests from locals and multiple applications, a contentious six-storey development in King William Street, Bayswater has been approved. On February 15 the Development Assessment Panel gave the green light to Yolk Property Group’s “Heir” development, which has won both praise and criticism from various community groups (Future Bayswater for it, Bayswater Deserves…
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THE problematic rollout of the NBN continued in characteristically bumpy fashion this week, with contractors allegedly killing a mature tree at the corner of Central Ave and East Street in Bayswater. Cr Catherine Ehrhardt has reported it to the city, calling it “absolutely disgraceful”. She says a passerby was told by workers a “truck backed…
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HANGING around a toilet block too long can get you in trouble, but it’s hard not to linger outside the most artistic loos in the country. Duncan Moon’s masterpiece The Nearest of the Faraway Places at Claughton Reserve is ready for its official opening and tour, and the artist will be down there to talk…
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PERTH’S unusually mild summer made Hyde Park the perfect place for our photographer, Steve Grant to stop for lunch this week. In fact, it’s so mild that one pair of coots seems to have got their seasons mixed up and are already swimming around with a brood of five tiny ducklings. A lazy visit from…
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A PERTH man who served Australia’s longest driving licence suspension before it was overturned on appeal has been knocked back for an ex-gratia payment, despite claims it ruined his life. David Tubbs was just 19 in 1985, when he made the fateful decision to get behind the wheel of a mate’s car after a couple…
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ON February 16 the Perth district court sentenced a woman to six years in jail for transmitting HIV to a man—a sentence longer than that doled out to some one-punch killers in recent years. The transgender woman, who told the court she did not know she had HIV, will have to serve her time in…
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I HEARD the thumping chorus of Another One Bites the Dust as an old bloke on a pimped-up gopher barreled down the pavement on Beaufort Street. He made it across the busy Newcastle Street, but only just, and I had to admire his taste in music, and zest for living on the edge. Seems like there’s…
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TUNE in to 6EBA’s Blues, Jazz and Beyond, and you could be sharing the airwaves with audiences as far away as Europe and the USA. Presenter Arthur Gracias notched up his 100th edition of the Perth community radio show in January, and over the years he’s built up a loyal fan base, including renowned international…
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