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THIS trophy made of Emu Export beer cans. Claims of anti-social behaviour and drug use. Yelling. Swearing. And the bang of a roller-hockey puck hitting timber. The cocktail has led to WA’s newest sporting league being asked to reconsider its future at the Bayswater Bowling Club, its home of just five months. The Street Roller…
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A YEAR to the day that Bella Bropho’s group of activists set up camp at Matagarup (aka Heirisson Island), the island has become a refuge for the homeless. Ms Bropho came to the island March 1, 2015. There had been other protest groups there, but her main goal setting up the First Nations Refugee Camp…
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WITH a flood of Aboriginal activists and supporters fronting Council House to look for confiscated belongings, Perth city council has agreed to hold open days to let people reclaim impounded items. Five truckloads of camping goods and other items were taken from Matagarup/Heirisson Island during the PCC’s attempt to “decamp” people from the island last…
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A 10pm check-in curfew, clean home assurances and public liability insurance are likely be included in WA regulations aimed at curbing issues with new short-stay accommodation providers. East Metro Liberal MLC Alyssa Hayden this week met with staffers at Perth, Stirling and Bayswater councils to talk about policing complaints. The parliamentary secretary is compiling recommendations…
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THE Supreme Court is to decide whether Maylands gets a 1000sqm Dan Murphy’s liquor barn that can sell liquor. Woolworths already has permission from the local development assessments panel to build its grog palace but was last month refused a licence to sell alcohol. Woolworths is appealing the WA liquor commission’s refusal, and if it…
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“MANATON. Manaton!” a French mate repeated with growing frustration some years ago. He’d been talking about the music group Manhattan Transfer, but ever since I’ve thought of that swampy island city as Manaton. So here I was at Manaton’s on Hay, an unprepossessing eatery getting good reviews on social media and smiling at the memory.…
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THE conversation kept drifting back to Iceland, despite photographer Tom Grasso’s protestations he didn’t have a favourite amongst the many wild and beautiful countries he’d visited recently. A photograph of an Icelandic glacial lagoon drew elegant words from the normally taciturn 27-year-old, telling the Voice it was the top location on his list and a…
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THE dark underworld of black market selling and “entrepreneurial” trading had audiences trawling Subiaco streets at night as part of Blackmarket, an edgy street performance, for the Perth International Arts Festival. Based on the collapse of capitalism, in a world where money has no value, audience members traded possessions for survival skills and services, including…
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Perth’s best kept secret is out! Recently celebrating its first birthday, A Fish Called Inglewood has diners hooked on its fantastic food. Once the domain of locals, the word has spread that it’s worth making the trip across town to check out this suburban gem. There’s a lot to love about the place, from the…
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“STRIKE three, you’rrrre out!” would carry faintly on the breeze coming off the river over Langley Park as my sister and I explored the flats across the road. Mum used to drag us kids to her softball games every summer Saturday for years, and we were left to our own devices as she played, coached…
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