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STIRLING city council has put off a decision to install on-street parking along Main Street. The initiative would have cost $35,000 and resulted in $123,500 of street trees being removed. A council report presented to the community and resources committee found that even with the parking, it wouldn’t have benefited business along the street and…
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BEAUFORT STREET’S southern regions have always found funding love, from Vincent and Stirling councils pouring in cash to the old festival to the WA government splashing out big for road upgrades. The stretch in the northern ends near Inglewood has sometimes felt like the second favourite child, but retiring federal Perth MP Alannah MacTiernan wants…
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PERTH city council is boasting that its residential rates will rise by a mere 1.6 per cent, keeping them in line with CPI. Trouble among the brass (CCC investigations into the lord mayor, former CEO Gary Stevenson taking an unexpected early exit, half the council falling afoul of travel contribution reporting rules) haven’t affected the…
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Friendly fire? I REFER to “Hammond calls in big guns” (Voice, April 30, 2016). As a result of my inability to obtain any traction in having improvements made to the intersection since my election in 2008, a meeting was, at my request, arranged at parliament house on September 28, 2011 by the then WA transport minister. Representatives…
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IF only my lotto prayers were answered with the alacrity of my gnocchi plea. With a whispered “please, please let it be good” I sampled the pan-fried morsel and sang a little hallelujah. The potato-based dough, used in Italian dishes instead of pasta, can be hit and miss and a recent one elsewhere had the…
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MULTI-DIMENSIONAL, polyrhythmic gangster shit is how Melbourne band Hiataus Kaiyote describes itself on the web. The funky jazz quartet was nominated for a Grammy, but was pipped at the post by Snarky Puppy. Songwriter/singer Mai Palm brought her own brand of future soul to the band: “I always knew I wanted to be in a…
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ARIES (Mar 21 – Apr 20) There are a lot of planets in earth signs at the moment. This could have you feeling like you are pushing boulders. You are definitely not in a purple patch of free flow. Understand that no matter how good you might be feeling; you are in an environment that…
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WITH a swag of schools nearby you can set your watch by the drop in afternoon mobile coverage at this Mt Lawley home, as the home bell rings and a mass exodus of social-media deprived students reach for phones. “At 3.30 you don’t make calls because of the traffic…as soon as the kids are out…
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With 90 visa classes and 149 subclasses further categorised into either temporary or permanent groupings, and within tourist, work, student, family or humanitarian visa types, the process of applying for residency is complicated. And without professional advice from a registered migration agent the costs can add up – a small mistake can cost you more…
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SUPPORTERS of the fascist United Patriots Front have called for the sterilisation of young people who support the Safe Schools anti-bullying program. A tiny handful of UPF members was vastly outnumbered by Safe Schools supporters at a rally in Perth last weekend. Following the rally, the UPF Facebook page posted images of several Safe Schools…
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