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ASH GRUNWALD has one the most prolific and successful blues career in Australian music history, and been at the forefront of the music scene for more than 12 years. But his natural talent wasn’t nurtured in a music conservatory; guitar lessons were those at school. His teacher encouraged him to stretch himself with other music…
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ARIES (Mar 21 – Apr 20) Commit to the deeper currents of feeling that are coursing through your veins. There are creative passions in there bouncing up and down to be hatched. Give free reign to your imagination. More is possible if you can only give yourself permission to go for what means the most…
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ELEGANT wrought iron gates secured to limestone pillars, and soaring pine trees set the tone for this grand Mt Lawley home on Park Road. A manicured garden of roses, aged camellias and a stately water feature add to the genteel dignity of the old home, where jarrah flows and dainty ceiling roses are found throughout.…
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MAYLANDS MP Lisa Baker has called for WA’s parliament to expunge historic homosexuality convictions and offer an apology. Laws against gays lingered until 1989 but to this day hundreds of men still have convictions on their record. The 1913 law said guilty people could be “imprisoned for hard labour for 14 years, with or without…
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BAYSWATER council has sent the Barnett government a 10-point wishlist from ratepayers wanting the aging Baysy train station tarted up. But despite sinking the station being punters’ top priority, it’s off the table for now. The station will soon become a gateway to the city for passengers coming from the airport along the new Forrestfield-Airport…
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HISTORIC Horry’s Tree on Melrose Street, Leederville — the only tree saved when the Mitchell Freeway came bowling through — is to get stronger heritage protection. The Moreton Bay fig was planted by dairyman Horace Thompson next to his family home in October 1815. He left for the Great War three months later, hoping to…
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A THOUGHTLESS fisher tossing away their tackle has killed an oblong turtle on the Maylands foreshore. The shoreline is stacked with bins specifically for fishing line. Bayswater council workers recovered the turtle from the Maylands Lakes, describing the animal as “hopelessly entangled in fishing line that was wrapped around its body and neck”. The species…
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AN upper house MP wants Bayswater council to remove native vegetation behind her Ingles Place property so she doesn’t have to walk as far to get to the river. The vegetation is protected as part of the Swan and Canning Rivers Regional Park, but Liberal parliamentary secretary Alyssa Hayden wrote to council asking it to…
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SCHOOL holidays can cost a packet but the Postal Hall Book Exchange in Cathedral Square offers endless take-home fun – for free. In perfect synchronicity the first Sunday of the school holidays coincides with a kids book exchange at the monthly Cathedral Square markets. It’s a chance for youngsters to swap books with other kids…
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MATAGARUP activists had their first day in court this week, hoping to get an injunction against further raids on their Heirisson Island camp by Perth city council. Camping on the island is forbidden under council rules, and it’s recently ramped up raids to confiscate tents, blankets and other camping gear used by Indigenous and homeless…
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