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Author: Your Herald
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IT’S the eternal bugbear of Beaufort Street: the notoriously clogged and unsafe intersection with Walcott Street remains stagnant despite years of back and forth. Labor’s candidate for the federal seat of Perth hit the streets last week, collecting signatures for a petition to get things fixed. Essentially a state and mainly local government issue, the…
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PERTH lord mayor Lisa Scaffidi is flying to Sydney to talk about “rebuilding public confidence”. The trip to the National Infrastructure Summit will cost Perth ratepayers $7475. Ms Scaffidi’s been invited to be key speaker at the Australian Financial Review-run conference on June 15 and 16. In justifying the outlay, city staff point out it’s…
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THE annual hunt for historic photos and stories of the Vincent area is on again, and the local history centre is hoping people have photographic gold hiding in dusty old boxes and forgotten drawers. The local history awards have helped populate the history centre’s collection over the years and the whole inventory is now online…
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FEARS Northbridge could lose its soul due to whingy residents moving in have spurred Perth city council to develop some flexibility on noise rules. Already, complaints from people living in apartment towers built close to live music venues are being lodged. The city’s taken to making people sign waivers before moving into a block near…
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LOCAL walking enthusiasts will roll out this week in memory of a tradition inspired by urban activist and writer Jane Jacobs. “Jane’s Walks” have been held worldwide annually since Jacobs’ death in 2006. Last year the event took place in 189 cities, and walkability enthusiast Tina Askam has been organising events in Perth. Jacobs believed…
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JOHN CAREY (right) has released a 25-page manifesto, Raising the Bar, which challenges councils across WA to get real about transparency. The Vincent mayor’s report is damning of local government, saying councils often “do not demonstrate or show any interest in improving the public’s access to information”. Neighbouring Perth city council, for example, had to…
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THE weather was just what Perth needed, with black clouds dumping buckets of water. And how better to spend a wet public holiday than enjoying a pub lunch. The Oxford in Leederville has been serving punters since 1906, but while you’ll still find time-honoured pub fare such as parmigiana and steak sarnies the menu has…
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THERE’S been a bit of controversy in South Fremantle of late about the Seaview Hotel, rebadged as The Local, with some harrumphing it’s not their local as they head instead to the other South Freo pub. Having had a very average meal at The Local back in January, I too had vowed never to return.…
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THE worldwide trend of grown-ups colouring in has hit Bayswater public library, as Sr Ruth Aney discovered last week. While it’s a bit of fun, there’s good science behind the therapeutic benefits of adult colouring and other art therapies, helping with focus and cutting down on anxiety, and colouring even sees changes in heart rate…
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Voice Astrology with Sudhir ARIES (Mar 21 – Apr 20) Venus leaves. She has brought blessings and difficulties. She rightly won’t let anyone control her; even when she is operating within your psyche and not in the form of another human. Her liberation is no mean feat. There are psychological, political, ecological, and spiritual implications.…
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