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IT’S easy to miss the main bedroom of this Bedford home, and like me, many have says the real estate agent. It’s not because this Grand Promenade home is small, in fact it’s the perfect size for a family, with four bedrooms and two sitting areas. It’s because like The Lion, The Witch and The…
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ARIES (Mar 21 – Apr 20) Work is proving to be a universe full of wonders. It’s as if something has clicked in that has been missing for ages. Perhaps you get a knack that has been defying you. Perhaps all the discipline you have been engaging in starts to bear fruit like it was…
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THIS year’s Pride Parade is going to be bigger than ever, with a new route that takes it through the heart of Northbridge. The parade, which is on Saturday, November 25, now also goes past both of Perth’s main LGBTIQ+ venues, starting at the Court Hotel and sashaying past Connections Nightclub for the first time…
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IT’S all over bar the shouting. But from all reports that clamour should be the joyful celebrations of marriage equality supporters when the Australian Bureau of Statistics releases the results of the national plebiscite on marriage equality this coming Wednesday. With almost 80 per cent of the nation’s voters making the effort to have their…
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THIS is what HIV looks like in 2017” This is the powerful tagline on this year’s AIDS day billboard campaign, featuring photos of six ordinary-looking people living with the condition. It is the first campaign of its type in Australia and WA AIDS Council’s Mark Reid is hopeful that featuring people confident enough to go…
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PREMIER Mark McGowan has this week apologised to hundreds of people who were charged under old anti-homosexual laws, and introduced legislation to allow people to have their record wiped clean. Laws against homosexuality were officially on the books in WA until 1989, but the height of the police crackdown was during the 50s and 60s…
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MOUNT HAWTHORN’S Rebecca Wheadon is back from the US after breaking a cycling world record at the Masters World Championships in Los Angeles. The masters games are for competitors over 30s and she returns home a world champion, and a world record holder, with a time of 37.299 seconds in the women’s team sprint track…
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LEEDERVILLE’S pop-culture emporium Black Plastic has just about grown up and turned 30. Owner Paul FitzRoy opened the shop in 1987, and instead of doing extensive customer research, he just filled his shelves with items he liked, including quirky cards, movie figurines and odd gifts. Asked what the overall theme of Black Plastic is, FitzRoy…
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IT’S a big plan…for tiny houses. The City of Fremantle wants other councils to buy into its plan to attract more people to inner-urban areas by offering them tiny houses, sometimes on tiny blocks. The city has teamed up with the Planning Institute Australia, Property Council and Shelter WA to spruik its plan to other…
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No 123 from ABC I SERIOUSLY object to the ABC managing director refusing to disclose the salaries of the top employees to our elected government. This is outrageous as they are employees of the taxpayers who pay their wages and any employer is entitled to know how much these people are being paid by the…
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