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FEDERAL Perth Labor MP Patrick Gorman (right) has labelled a tiny beetle as a “pandemic” for Perth trees. In Parliament this week, Mr Gorman said the polyphagous shot-hole borer was an “enemy” that posed a massive biosecurity risk to the country. “This invasive beetle is just two millimetres long and it’s on a rampage from…
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A NEW electronic parking permit at the University of WA has some students and staff claiming they’re having to pay $15.60 for all-day parking instead of the $2 to which they are entitled. Earlier this year, UWA introduced the EasyPark system which a spokesperson for the university says was intended to “improve and enhance parking”…
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PORTRAITS of Freo’s skating community appeared at the world-famous Woolstores Ledge this week to celebrate the iconic skate spot which faces an unknown future. Freo-based photographer Duncan Wright says he wanted to document the soul of the skating ledge, which runs parallel to Cantonment Street at the base of the Woolstores building. “Woolstores is such…
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STIRLING council has won a historic 10th gold at an award ceremony which rewards accountability and transparency. Stirling is the only WA government to hit the 10 mark, which earned it an induction into the Australasian Reporting Awards honour roll. The City’s 2022/23 annual report was the first to report on its new Strategic Community…
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FLASH floods, hail and wild winds in January, a freak storm in April and a tornado smashing into Bunbury in May; it’s no surprise Sandgropers are wondering how WA Day organisers will cope with predictions of a bucketing for the first day of festivities. After the Bureau of Meteorology posted a possibility of up to…
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WITCHCRAFT saved my life, says 47-year-old Nikki Mills. Mills says when she was alone in her 20s, she had suicidal thoughts, but witchcraft gave her “faith, purpose and a much broader understanding of both people and the world I was living in.” “Without the strength it gave me I don’t know where I would be…
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Great views IN 1993 I purchased a property in Crawley. It is the same building that Eric Cook, the last person hanged in Western Australia, tried to murder a person. That was unit 2, while I live in unit 1. Thank goodness the tourist buses laden with ogling people with their cameras to “snap” the…
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FANCY walking inside a giant eyeball and then down a serpentine tunnel that leads to someone’s brain? Synapse is just one of the weird arty installations at this year’s Strange Festival, which features more than 20 outré artworks in empty shopfronts and neglected spaces across the city. More than 30 artists have been given carte…
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WHEN playwright Henrik Ibsen had his female lead walk out on her family in A Doll’s House, it was considered radical for its late-19th century audience. Whether it would still be considered radical today is at the heart of a sequel making its WA premiere at the Blue Room Theatre from June 13. …
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THIS is a real Basso-bonzer property. Situated on a whopping corner block, it’s got four bedrooms, two bathrooms, large pool, self-contained studio and a massive undercover alfresco. It’s a great family abode with a versatile layout that will come in handy as parents and kids get older and need their own space. The main open…
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