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Love the Mt Lawley cafe scene, but find the traffic and noise get a bit much sometimes? Then you’ve got to try Secondeli Cafe. Perched in a prime spot on the corner of Second Avenue and Beaufort Street, this buzzing little place offers the best of both worlds. It’s located close enough to still feel…
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PIRACY and cultural cringe is killing Australian cinema, film buff Matt Eeles says. “We would rather pay $25 to see Transformers Part 9 [watching] the same thing over and over, instead of supporting our own culture.” Australian films are gathering attention at international festivals, but back home are on limited release, usually in art house…
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YOU’D be a wally to go past this Wholley Street, Bayswater home without having a look inside, but with its stylish skillion roof and crisp modern lines that’s unlikely. The brand-new, eye-catching four-bedroom home smells of new carpet, the paint is barely dry, and the drive has not a single blemish on its soft greyish…
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The majority of Australians have never changed or reviewed their financial institution, preferring to use the one lender for all of their needs. This choice could be costing home owners thousands of dollars in extra interest being paid on their home loan because they have not considered other more competitive options available in the market.…
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A TAXI driver was spotted doing a poo on a Leederville verge around 9.50am Tuesday. A resident was walking her dog when she spotted the driver squatting on the Burke Street verge near the Britannia Park tennis courts, and it looked like he’d come prepared, with his own roll of toilet paper. She says public…
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AN online register of men convicted of hiring street prostitutes may be scrapped just three years after its introduction. For months the Vincent city council register — introduced during the reign of former mayor Alannah MacTiernan — has been empty: “There are no recorded convictions at this present time,”it reads. The controversial register was introduced…
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PERTH’S hidden bike-riding history’s being uncovered at the museum of Perth, and the exhibition shows cycling isn’t some fad that came riding in, covered in lycra, in the past few years. “Cycling has been an important part of Perth’s transport mix for many years,” museum chair Reece Harley says. “The seven bikes in our exhibition…
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VINCENT city council is under pressure to dump allergenic London plane trees, with claims they’re bad for health and make Perth look like every other city that plants them. At this year’s council AGM, planner Jake Schapper urged the council to stop planting the trees saying they’re bad for health, give no sense of place…
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THE playground at Pat O’Hara Reserve may be moved several hundred metres — costing $80,000 — because it’s plagued by vandalism and anti-social behaviour. Bayswater council reckons the playground will be better near the Morley Sport and Recreation Centre and busy Wellington Road, where it’s better lit and busier. It comes as rangers record 29…
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BAYSWATER and Vincent councils are leading a rebellion against premier Colin Barnett’s development assessment panels, saying they strip too much power from democratically-elected councils. Last week Bayswater councillor Dan Bull refused in writing to serve on one of the five-member panels, which have the authority to approve major projects: with three panellists appointed by the…
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