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BAYSWATER council has launched its new smartphone app for residents to report vandalism and other problems around the city. Currently good samaritans reporting a tag or dangerous pothole can be punished with a lengthy wait listening to hold music, but now they can instantly upload their grievance on the council’s Localeye app. The original idea…
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SEA SHEPHERD eco-warriors will be highlighting their campaign to prevent BP drilling for oil in the Great Australian Bight at an upcoming public event. Promising stories, breathtaking imagery and eye opening footage from their Operation Jeedera campaign in the bight, as well as other issues, An Ocean Conversation is at the state theatre on August…
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IT took just 24 hours for the first bride and groom to discover Fremantle’s grand new entry statement Rainbow. Marcus Canning’s sculpture of nine sea containers painted and welded together in a colourful arch formed the perfect backdrop for their wedding portraits, while it literally bought traffic to a stop as locals and visitors alike…
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THREE huge cranes struggled as they worked in unison, daylight fading, to slot the last section of the giant rainbow arch of sea containers into place on Beach Street Reserve, just up the road from Fremantle’s old traffic bridge on Canning Highway. Nine metres high, 19 metres long and tipping the scales at 66 tonnes…
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Wasted opportunities WHAT is going on? How can the WAPC, the statewide peak town planning decision-making authority, approve a subdivision of swampland (Dorazio and Carter land) abutting the Swan River parkland and the Eric Singleton bird sanctuary? The fact the WAPC approved this subdivision against the recommendation of the City of Bayswater is unbelievable, but…
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MICHAEL SUTHERLAND is the Speaker of the Legislative Assembly and MLA for Mt Lawley. In today’s SPEAKER’S CORNER he reflects on the disendorsement of two candidates in the last federal elections and says they were harshly dealt with. ONE of WA’s greatest premiers Sir Charles Court is reported to have said, “Parliament should be made…
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MIST swirled from a bank of industrial mixing machines as our ice cream froze before our eyes. Welcome to the wonderful world of creamy liquid nitrogen gelato at Ibiza N2 in Mt Lawley. Warm, crisp and delicate churros, a melted chocolate dip ($8.90), and a mug of hot chocolate ($8.50) warmed us as we watched…
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HER parents had more love for US singer Whitney Houston than each other, says actor and playwright Whitney Richards, hence her moniker. She was just eight when the inevitable divorce came; a time of confusion and foggy memories for the now 30 year old. “I have conflicting memories. Do I remember, or is it because…
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FRESH of winning the WA category of the national 2016 Art Music Awards, Louise Devenish will be pairing up with sonic artist James Hullick at the State Theatre Centre on August 23. The second instalment of Tura New Music’s Scale Variable chamber music series, Scattered Experiments is a double bill of experimental percussion, visual and…
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ARIES (Mar 21 – Apr 20) Relationships are becoming more important. They are your ultimate mirror. What you are seeing in there is your reflection, no matter how hard you fight against seeing it. Saturn is banking on your Mars energy getting some wisdom. Learn the lesson this time. Sort out your side of the…
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