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PERTH council has rejected an application from lord mayor Lisa Scaffidi and her husband Joe to erect a digital billboard outside a CBD hotel they own. Ms Scaffidi and developer husband Joe Scaffidi are shareholders in Central City, which applied to erect the $700,000 sign outside their Akara Hotel on Wellington Street. Planning committee presiding…
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Hands off my school I AM writing to you to express my concerns about the Labor Party’s plans for the school that I am currently attending, Perth Modern School. I am a Year 8 student at Perth Modern School and I really enjoy the fact that I study there, the great teachers and friends I have…
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MANDI PARKER has been running markets around Perth for more than 10 years, but says lately the scene has become over-saturated as every fundraiser and their dog thinks it’ll be easy to casually throw one together. Sometimes there are up to six markets running on the same weekend. In this week’s SPEAKER’S CORNER Ms Parker…
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HUNGER, laziness and boredom were the lethal trifecta which compelled me to seek culinary advice from the Google Gods last week. In a last ditch attempt to breathe life into an uneventful Thursday evening, I desperately typed “restaurants near me”. I thought nothing would be able to satiate my ravenous appetite until I laid eyes…
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DERELICT carparks, fetid alleyways and the odd crooked road sign gleaming in the moonlight; artists Ian Williams and Nathan Brooker love to document mouldering urban landscapes in thick slathers of oil. They call the subject matter deadspace: functional areas that have been abandoned and are no longer of use to society. In a modern update…
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ARIES (Mar 21 – Apr 20) The Moon lights up your desire for innovation and change early in the week. This desire is pitted against all those parts of you that would rather take things slowly and embrace the status quo. As the Moon becomes full, so you may just have a major breakthrough. Trust…
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ROSLYN is emblazoned across the front of this art deco apartment complex on Walcott Street, and I couldn’t help wondering who the mysterious lady was. Daughter, wife or a lost love of the developer perhaps? Was she one of the “bright young things” of 1930s Perth? As I stepped into the vast entry foyer, with…
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BEES are being brought to Bayswater in a new 12-month trial to support healthy bee populations and show people that the fuzzy fliers aren’t scary. Following a motion tabled by Cr Michelle Sutherland, the first of the trial beehives has been set up at Maylands Brickworks by Bayswater council and the WA Apiarist’s Society. Dean…
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PICCADILLY Theatre’s future is looking bleak after Perth council’s sponsorship committee refused to grant developers funds at a meeting on Thursday night. The iconic art deco cinema building, located in Hay Street mall, opened in 1938. Mellen Events were seeking $1.7 million over 10 years in city sponsorship to proceed with a $3 million-plus redevelopment.…
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