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Author: Your Herald
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PERTH audiences are hard to crack and it’s uncommon for more than two curtain calls. As for standing ovations, I thought they’d gone out of style — until the premiere of Tim Minchin’s musical Matilda. Rising to their feet, the audience in the packed theatre clapped and wolf whistled as the cast took bow after…
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ARIES (Mar 21 – Apr 20) The Sun has its last fill of Pisces and then moves into Aries. The last few days of Pisces come with a surprising amount of emotional intensity. This is unexpected. One would expect that last vestiges of Piscean days to be mellow. If you slip up, get up. Your…
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WITH two secure gates guarding entry to this North Perth home, it’s the perfect place to barricade yourself in and ignore the world. Gate number one is an attractive timber number accessing a decked walkway. Number two fortifies a covered portico, which is a great spot for visitors to shelter while you check them out…
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Learn some valuable tips from a local agent “I recently had to put on my buyer’s hat when helping to select a first home for my daughter. I was under pressure to find the right home for the right price, while ensuring she made a sound financial decision,” said John Page, sales director of local…
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LABOR was a no-show at a forum organised by Perth Modern School parents to oppose the party’s plan to move gifted students to a new school in the CBD. Under Labor’s Education Central plan the academically select student body would be moved next to the Perth train station, and the Perth Mod campus would become…
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THE Paddington Alehouse has been flayed by customers over its plans to host an evening with Pauline Hanson on Thursday March 9. “Pots & Pizza With Pauline” offered pizza and the first 100 drinks on Ms Hanson’s tab. The event attracted swift criticism as soon as it was advertised. Hundreds of people descended on the…
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THE major parties are asking Western Australians to cast their vote in Saturday’s state election without basic information on two key policy issues. The election ‘campaign’ has been a farce. The Labor Party easily won the race for the dubious honour of lavishing ‘sweeteners’ on voters in an attempt to win the uniform swing of…
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IT’S been a fierce fight for the state seat of Perth: front yards are peppered with six-foot high signs of Labor candidate John Carey’s noggin and Perth Liberal MP Eleni Evangel’s glossy brochures fill letterboxes — sometimes several at a time. Ms Evangel won the Perth seat with a big 12 per cent swing in…
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MT LAWLEY Liberal MP Michael Sutherland knows he faces a fight to retain his seat this election. In 2008 he managed one of the biggest swings in the state to wrest it from Labor and gained more ground in 2013, but that margin’s dwindled a little to 8.9 per cent. In his typical colourful turn…
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LABOR’s Lisa Baker holds Maylands with a mere 2.7 per cent but the pundits predict that’ll only be pushed upwards on Saturday. A $1 bet on the animal-loving Ms Baker only returns you a $1.03 if she wins (one of the few bets she’d be okay with, given her stance opposing greyhound racing and calls…
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