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SHARING your life story through a memoir can be somewhat nerve-wracking, particularly when your insights about your community could make some a little uncomfortable. First-time author Khin Myint’s Fragile Creatures will almost certainly push buttons when it’s launched at the this coming Friday (June 7), and he admits to having some nerves ahead of the…
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THE City of Perth has asked the Cook government to ensure locals get a say on development around the UWA/QEII precinct after it was stripped of the lead role. Last month WA planning minister John Carey announced the government was looking at establishing an “improvement plan” for the precinct after it was identified as a…
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PADDLERS from Australia’s oldest dragon boat team will be jetting off to Hong Kong to compete at the International Dragon Boat Festival in June. Twenty-four athletes from the Fremantle Swan Dragon Boat Club will be competing against 4000 athletes from over 170 international teams. FSDBC president Wade Spackman says the club has a longstanding tradition…
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IF you’re of a certain vintage, where do you go to make new friends or find romance? Dating apps can be intimidating and the quality of candidates patchy to say the least – some look like extras from Night of the Living Dead – match-making agencies are expensive, and if you don’t belong to any…
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We paid for surplus last year BY the time you read this you will probably have seen some press saying how Vincent has kept the annual rates rise down to 4 per cent. This is probably reasonable given potential cost increases for Vincent including employee costs going up by just under 7 per cent! It…
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IT probably took a few months off my life, but it was worth it. The Highlander Loaded Fries ($16) at Blasta were a glorious ode to heart disease with layers of molten cheese, deep-fried chips and haggis. But boy did they taste good, and I was stone-cold sober. Having grown up in Glasgow, I can…
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A DISABLED girl group that wear their heart on their sleeve are making their WA debut at the Perth International Cabaret Festival this month. The five members of The Sisters of Invention have a range of learning difficulties including blindness, cerebral palsy, foetal alcohol spectrum disorder, Williams Syndrome and an intellectual disability. But this doesn’t…
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IF you’re after a gorgeous character home in Inglewood, then look no further than 69 Normanby Road. This three bedroom one bathroom abode has all the heritage bells and whistles including lead light windows, jarrah floorboards and ornate ceiling medallions. The living room is a period classic with burnished wood mingling with beautiful cornicing and…
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BAYSWATER council is poised to hit land-bankers with big rate increases in an effort to force them into developing their vacant lots. At Tuesday’s meeting, councillors voted to seek approval from local government minister John Carey to apply differential rates to vacant commercial and residential properties for the first time. The council is proposing to…
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A RECENT study shows that urban trees shape how we connect or how we fail to connect to the places where we live. A team of researchers at the UWA School of Biological Sciences and the School of Psychological Science recently published a study, indicating that local trees affect people’s attachment to the places they…
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