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WORLD-RENOWNED ragtime pianist John Gill, best known locally for tinkling the ivories in the Murray Street mall, is to be featured in a Museum of Perth exhibition. Gill used to say that if he dropped dead, he wanted it to be in Forrest Chase, but in 2011 he suffered a fatal heart attack in a…
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THE flash of a smart phone during a council meeting this week was enough to inflame divisions within Perth council. During an item on the heritage listing of the Grand Central hotel — part-owned by lord mayor Lisa Scaffidi — councillor Reece Harley was certain he spotted colleague Judy McEvoy recording proceedings on her phone.…
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A PUSH to allow Perth bars and restaurants to serve alcohol in alfresco “pop-ups” has been thwarted by Perth council. Cr Jemma Green spearheaded the motion at a council meeting earlier this week, saying it would put brick and mortar businesses on an even footing with businesses like the twilight hawkers market. Universal bar owner…
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AFTER three stints as Bayswater mayor and 23 years as a councillor, Terry Kenyon is facing bankruptcy proceedings in the federal court. Lavan Legal has applied to have Cr Kenyon, a freeman of the city, declared bankrupt over bills he incurred while suing fellow councillors Mike Anderton and Mike Sabatino for defamation. If the law…
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THE Salvation Army has launched a new phone service which encourages members of the public to take a more active role in helping homeless people. If you encounter someone sleeping rough and feel comfortable passing on advice, the Salvo’s City Homeless Response can provide details for services to assist them – like St Bart’s, Uniting…
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FANCY a dunny tour? Bayswater council and artist Duncan Moon reckon tourists might soon be putting the squat, concrete public toilets at Claughton Reserve on their Perth itinerary thanks to a $60,000 makeover. Moon hopes his curvilinear design with a tortoise-shell roof (reference the western swamp tortoise, WA’s most endangered reptile), ornamental egret columns and…
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Climate maths REG HOWARD-SMITH of the Chamber of Minerals and Energy of WA (“Miners are contributors”, Voice Letters, October 15, 2016) seems to love figures, so I’d like to point out a few significant figures for him. 2 – The number of degrees Celsius by which we can afford to warm the planet before feedback…
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WHEN a bloke with a substantial and obvious pot belly gets warned about the size of the steak sanger on the menu, you can be pretty certain it’s going to get you through until dinner. The waitress at Mary Street Bakery showed admirable motherly concern as I ordered an entree of fruit toast ($6.50) to…
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WHEN WA playwright Hellie Turner switched on the TV in her Sydney hotel room, she knew she’d found the subject for her new play. The story of 12-year-old Xan Fraser, gang raped and left for dead, was being told in harrowing detail during a 7.30 report on the ABC. Equally horrifying was young victim’s treatment…
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ARIES (Mar 21 – Apr 20) The Scorpio Sun offers you access to all sorts of counterintuitive solutions to problems that have been stumping you. It’s when you give space to your witchy wise streak that you function at your best. You might not immediately recognise your own intuition on first glance, but here it…
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