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ARIES (Mar 21 – Apr 20) No matter what’s going on around you, you have the sense that doors are open, opportunity is knocking and you’d be best to get down to business rather than pondering it. Your feet are on the ground and your wings are in the open sky. Set your compass and…
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A RED front door is considered lucky and is a welcoming energy in feng shui. There might be something in the Chinese philosophy, because when you open the cherry-red door of this Bayswater home there’s a sense of a peaceful welcome and I can feel the positive chi wash over me. It could also be…
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NOT even the top medical minds are completely sure how it works, but radiotherapy is providing effective pain relief for patients suffering from bone cancer. Studies have found that 80 per cent of patients who underwent the non-invasive treatment reported a significant reduction in pain. Dr Margaret Latham, a radiation oncologist, says that most patients…
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With 16 commissioned artworks and more than 150 events, the City of Perth Winter Arts Season is a sure-fire way to beat the blues and get your imagination fired up during the cooler months. Enjoying a fourth birthday treat in the city with snapper dad Steve this week, Charlotte Ashton-Grant ugged up to catch the…
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VINCENT council adopted its new budget on Tuesday with a modest 2.7 per cent rate increase — unless you’re on the minimum. For the third year running the council gave the bottom rung an almost double-digit hike which mayor Emma Cole says just about brings it into line with surrounding councils. Ms Cole says the…
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AFTER eight years as a Vincent councillor, the zany and idiosyncratic Matt Buckels has announced he won’t be re-contesting his seat at the October elections. First elected in 2009, he added a cheeky turn of phrase and an independent streak to a historically Labor-heavy council. “I honestly think that I’ve played a real part of…
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BUSINESS is going to the dogs in Vincent thanks to an updated local law approved by the council this week. The council has cut a long-standing section of its Dog Act banning pooches from going into shops—providing they aren’t an indoor cafe—and may use the initiative to promote the city as a mutt-friendly shopping destination,…
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NORTHBRIDGE resident Leo Treasure is on a mission to ban tonal reversing alarms on forklifts and trucks. There’s a push overseas to switch to broadband alarms (otherwise known as “white noise”) that can only be heard by those directly in line of a reversing vehicle, and Mr Treasure’s just created an online petition and website…
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THE president of the Maylands Ratepayers and Residents Association Elli Petersen-Pik will run for Bayswater council at the local government elections in October. Mr Petersen-Pik is targeting the south ward seat held by John Rifici, who after one four-year term has had enough and is not recontesting his position on October 21. In 2014 the…
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HAVING been chosen to toll the bells announcing the deaths of Winston Churchill and Harold Holt as a youngster in Adelaide, Ian McLeod can certainly claim a long history of ringing. Now the chair of the Bell Tower, he’s still passionate about campanology and says there was quite a protocol to ringing the bell to…
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