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NORTH Perth resident Rachel Zombor is preparing to travel to Antarctica with 80 of the world’s most promising female leaders as part of Homeward Bound. Following a competitive worldwide selection process, 80 women with scientific backgrounds will participate in a 12-month leadership program, culminating in a three-week voyage to Antarctica, which will push their leadership…
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BAYSWATER councillors have moved to close a loophole in their local law that allowed liquor barns to be built in residential areas. “We’d look foolish if we let it happen again,” mayor Barry McKenna said at the last full council meeting. The council recently had a setback in its years-long battle to stop a Dan…
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KEEPING gardens green has wrought havoc on Perth’s rivers, as fertiliser run off enters drains and causes algal blooms in the Swan and Canning Rivers. The problem is particularly bad at Maylands foreshore, so environmental scientist and TV gardener Josh Byrne is running a free workshop at Bayswater council to teach residents how to keep…
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IT’S cute but a bit clapped out, and now one of Mayland’s heritage-listed workers cottages is set to get a new life at the front of a group of five two-storey townhouses. Bayswater council officers have recommended the council approve an application to partly demolish the category three heritage cottage at 104 Eighth Avenue and…
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Stand fast, Lisa DOES WA’s capital city really want to step back a decade; even return to the 20th century? There’s real and present danger of this happening were Perth lord mayor Lisa Scaffidi to bow to the cruel pressures that currently she’s looking in the eye. Given such adversity, the fair minded among us…
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THE redevelopment zone surrounding 140 William Street has been the catalyst for a swag of top lunch spots opening in the city. My lunch buddy was a veggo, so we wandered along the street trying to pick an eatery that would keep us both happy, but the first advertisement I saw reawakened my caveman gene.…
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AMERICAN jazz singer Vivian Sessoms will bring the sounds of her native Harlem to Perth this month when she headlines the International Jazz Festival. Sessoms’ life has always been steeped in music; her mother was a session singer, her father a flautist and percussionist who performed with the legendary James Brown. Despite being a huge…
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PROMINENT Perth builder JP Collins built this Mt Lawley home for his family in 1957 – and a Collins has lived there ever since. He had four kids and a wife, but that wasn’t a problem as there’s plenty of space in this six-bedroom abode. Collins’ career took off in the 1930s when art deco…
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WA’S private schools have cautiously welcomed the Turnbull government’s Gonski 2.0 education funding model, with the sector’s peak organisation saying they won’t lose funding. Scotch College headmaster Alec O’Connell says the latest version of Gonski is a “well-overdue attempt to eliminate the backroom systemic deals that have existed in past Commonwealth funding arrangements.” U-turn The…
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ALL things legal will be celebrated at this year’s annual Law Week from May 15 – 19. The Law Society of WA is hosting the shindig and has lined up a diverse range of events by law firms and community legal centres, including free legal advice. “Law Week is a great opportunity for the community…
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